Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-04-23
White Star Liner Seeking
Remains of Titanic Dead
Requested to Send 1mme-
diate Identification.
SOME OF THE BODIES
TO BE BURIED AT SEA
Only EmbalmeI Bodies Can
be Brought IL Port Says
Message From Cable Ship
Conducting Search.

CO1luuCClIIS OCdl CAA.
New York, April 22.-The White
Star line announced this afternoon that
it had received the following wireless
message from the cable-ship Mackay
Bennett:
Heavy southwest squall has inter-
fered with operations. Fifty bodies
recovered. All not embalmed will be
buried at sea at p. m. with divine
'services. Can only bring embalmed
bodies to port
More detailed word by wireless
from the cable ship Mackay-Ben-
nett, which has been searching IN the
vicinity of the Titanic disaster and
has reported the recovery of fifty
bodies, was eagerly awaited here TO-
day, as the cable ship is under instruc-
tions to send forward immediate
identification of the dead and any
other Information obtainable.
The White Star line officials said
that any information from the Mack
ay-Bennett, which Is under orders to
remain in the vicinity Of the wreck
for a week, will be made public on re-
ceipt. Only those bodies that have
been identified or admit1of being iden-,
titled will be brought back. Some OF
1.-The victims have undoubtedly been
mutilated by ice so that Identification
is impossible.
Survivors All Recovered. g
The survivors who we're taken to
hospitals on their arrival here on the
Carpathia are now practically all re-
covered and many of them have left
for their homes. Relief societies have
gathered funds aggregating more than
a quarter of million dollars and the
relief committees have been swamped
with clothing. Not only that, but count
less letters were received, all offering
assistance Of every sort.
That many Of the life boats of the
Titanic were sent away only half filled
and that if Captain Smiths orders had
been obeyed many more lives would
have been saved, has been disclosed
by Peter S. Daley of Lima, Peru, a
first cabin survivor. DAILY states that
he saw the captain rush to the railing
after the boats had been put out from
the sinking ship and call Bring those
boats back, they are only half full"
How many boats obeyed the captains
orders to return, Mr.. DAILY was unable
to tell.
Titanic Fireman Has Speed Order.
John Thompson, a fireman on the
Titanic suffering with a broken arm
at st. Vincent's hospital may be an
important witness at the senatorial in
vestigation into the wreck. Thompson
comes from Liverpool and he asserts
that the Titanic was out Ito beat all
records on maiden trips
From Queenstown out" Thompson
is quoted as saying, "all the firemen
had been talking of the orders we had
to fire her up as hard as we possibly
could. We were to make as quick a
passage as possible. the orders ran. I
heard that these orders came from the
engineering department.
1--WE were carrying full pressure.
From the time we left Queenstown un-
til the moment Of the shock we never
ceased to make from to IT revolu-
tions. During that whole Sunday we
had been keepingup the III ID
No Passengers on Celtic.
New York, April 22.-General Pas
senger Agent Jefferies of the White
Star line today denied the report that
an officer and women steerage pas
sengers of the Titanic were picked up
by the Celtic which arrived in this
city on Saturday morning, as related
in dispatch last night from Muncie,
Ind.
There were no persons picked up by
the Celtic" he said, nor were there
any bodies taken aboard that ship"
F frankfurt Far Away. ..
Bremen, April 22.-The North Ger
(man-Lloyd Steamship Co., has issued
the folliwing statement having taken
under advisement the statement made
by H. s. Bride, the assistant wireless
operator of the Titanic, regarding the
steamer Frankfurt:
Eve sent wireless message to the
Frankfurt and have just received the
following reply:
"The steamer Frankfurt turned
north Immediately after getting the
signal Of distress. and arrived at 1850
at the scene of the disaster The dis
tance was 140 miles. We found the
steamers Birma, Virginian and Carpa-
| thia there.
".Hattorf.'