The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-01

ing for victims of the Titanic dis
aster off New Foundland banks today
dashed the hopes of Mrs. H. R. Rood
of Seattle, who had been almost GER
tain that the body of her husband
was on board the Nina.
The Nina reported the finding of
body dressed in evening clothes with
the initials III. r." appearing on the
underclothing.
This brought Mrs. Rood to Halifax
post haste. in the hope that the
body was that of her husband. A
wireless from the Nina today an
nounced that the body had been posi-
lively identified as that Of a waiter
on the Titanic.
+ Upon receiving the positive reply
from the Nina that her husband was
not on board, Mrs. Rood, who for
several days had been moving every
earthly resource to justify her hope
that her husbands body had been
recovered, almost collapsed She was
hurried to an outgoing train and
started for home, hysterical.
Wih'a rlHuihq 6ut r eW.
HALIFAX, May, II r Fears that the
death cruise OF the cable ship Minia
and her search for bodies of Titanic
victims will be we'll nigh fruitless
were partially confirmed today by the
following wireless received by the
White Star line officials here from
Captain De Carteret of the Minia:
For Ismay, Today, Tuesday, north
erly gale, misty, found body T. w.
King, purser's assistant, latitude al.
30: longitude 4S.16, being 46 miles
east of that found yesterday. showing
how widely scattered and difficult to
find, with no reports from passing
steamers to help me- Icebergs num-
erous as far south as 1870 in longi
tude 1880
(Signed }
Ode CARTERET.''
Exhausting every hope that the
body of, Henry B Harris, the theatri-
cal producer, was among those
brought to this port by the Mackay-
Bennett, friends of the lost theatrical
man here today sent wireless to the
cable ship Minia urging that every
effort be made to recover his body.
While the text of the wireless sent by
Harris representative to the Minia
was not made public 1t was under
stood that a substantial reward was
offered for the finding of the body.
Begin TO Realize the Horror.
HALIFAX, N. S., May IA full
realization of all the horror, all the
tragedy and all the terrible death
cost of the Titanic disaster crept
gradually over the big silent tempor-
ary morgue where bodies Of victims
lay today
With the anxiety of the past week
and the excitement of yesterday pass
ed away, there succeeded the dull
deadly routine of permanent sorrow.
Horror became commonplace, as
body after body was washed, dressed
and laid cut, to be viewed by anxious
mourners watching for the faces of
loved ones.
When all of the identified dead in
the Mackay-Bennett's cargo had been
"aoHeu ana uTeSSeu ana lald out TO
be viewed today, the swift. business
like embalmers kept on with their
work of preparing unidentified bodiey
to be claimed and laid them out fof
burial. But speedily as they worked,
the ghastly task dragged out and fby
noon today less than forty of the near
ly two hundred bodies brought inkhad
been embalmed here. Over a huHdred
were temporarily embalmed on the
Mackay.Bennett, hut many will not be
embalmed until they are claimed and
orders issued by friends or relatives
that they be prepared for burial
The dread fear that among the 118
buried at sea, So of them Unidentified,
there may have been some whose
friends were waiting their arrival
here grew stronger today. The dff-
fculty cf Identification and the ease
with which mistakes w5re made even
by clote friends as thky viewed the
dead, led many to doYbt the certainty
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