Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-04-25
TWO HUNDRED
ARE RECOVERED
Forty Three of the Titanic's
Dead Have Been Posi-
lively Identified
BODY or MAJ. ARCHIBALD BUTT
S. S. Mount Temple Passengers
Tell of Seeing the Ill
Fated Ship.


Nd BY Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
y New York, April 25.--Two hundred
y and five bodies of the victims of the
y Titanic disaster have been picked up
y at sea by the cable steamer Mackay-
= Bennett, and are being taken to Hall
y fax, n. S. The captain of the Mackay-
y Bennett confirms the Identification of
y George D. Widener, son of P. A. B.
y Widener, of Philadelphia, in wire
y less dispatch today to the White Star
= Line and gives the further informa-
y ton that the maturity of the bodies
= will never come to the surface. Cap
y tain Lardner of the MaCkayBennC'
= sends word through the Cape Race
' wireless station that the steamer has
y been drifting in a fog since noon yes
y terday. He does not indicate when he
y will reach Halifax Bodies are floating
y upon the sea many miles east and
y west in latitude ii min. 35 sec. north
y and longitude As min. 81 sec. west,
y says the wireless.
Y Mackay-Bennett Recover POS.
Y The following dispatch was received
y today by the White Star Line through
y the Cape Race station: Drifting in
y dense fog since noon yesterday. Total
Y picked up POS We brought away all
y cmbalming fluid to be had in Halifax,
y enough for 10
y with a weeks fine weather | think
Y We would pretty we'll clean up relics
Y of the disaster 1t is my opinion that
= the majority never will come to the
y surface"
Y Death Was instantaneous.
y Another wireless dispatch from the
y Mackay- received today states:
y Bodies are in latitude AZ min. 40 sec.
\ north, longitude As min 81 sec. west
y extending many miles east and west.
y Mail ships should give this a wide
Y berth. Medical opinion is death has
y been instantaneous in all cases owing
y to pressure when bodies drawn down
\ in vortex"
y The fact that the Mackay Bennett
\ has been able to communicate by
y wireless with the Cape Race station
\ shows that she is laying her course
\ toward Halifax as she was without the
Y one of the Cape Race station for sew
Y eral days and was only able to get in
y tou9h Hith the land through other
Y steamers relaying her messages
y That the body of Major "Archie'
\ Butt is among those recovered by the
Y Mackay- Bennett is the belief of White
\ Star officials. expressed today follow
y ing the receipt of a wireless dispatch
Y from the cable ship giving the name
4 Il. Butt among the identified.
x 1862 Unidentified on Board.
e The wireless list OF identified dead
< was received in response to request
& by the company which desired to
a, check off the names contained in the
x first list sent Monday. Today'G list
=, confirms all named in the first wire
=, less with one exception. In the first
=, message there appeared the name
=" Mihilschedig Rbatt. In the check off
=. list this name is separated into
~ "Nahil Schedig" and IL. Butt. After
an examination of all the passenger
lists, the officers have been able to
find only one Butt" that being Ar
chibald NJ. Butt, President Taft's mill
tary aide. There also is wv. Butt"
mentioned in the wireless, but it is
said, this refers to a member of the
II crew. Of the 205 bodies recovered and
I now being brought to Halifax, only
! 43 have been identified leaving 1862
unidentified dead, on board.
Afraid to Penetrate Floes to Rescue.
q, IStratchona, Alberta, April 23.-E.
w. Zurich, who crossed from Antwerp
to St John, n. b. on the steamer
Mount Temple, said today that pass
engers on board the Mount Temple
n heard of the Titanic's distress at 1915
III o'clock Monday morning. when wire.
less call for help was caught.
Captain Moore changed his vessels
Ss course at once and headed for the
Titanic and began preparations for
lending assistance, but Mr. Zurich
said great field of ice loomed up
ahead and the northern course was
M not held long. 1t was reported among
i'd the crew and passengers, according to
ay Mr. Zurich, that Captain Moore made
3D. no further efforts to penetrate the
nd foes, asserting that he could not at-
lat ford to endanger the 1000 persons
he aboard his ship
nd The story of Dr.. Quitzman that pass.
lat engers and crew believed they could
ire see the lights of the unfortunate Ii
ad tanic is borne out by Mr. Zurich. With
ow two companion passengers he dis
I'd" obeyed the captains orders, which
IN. forbade passengers entrance to the
60 upper deck at any time. He is fairly
positive that they saw the masts Of
nv the Titanic and he says he is not
off ready to accept the assertion that
re. their ship was at least forty miles
rs from the wrecked liner at the time.
wi At any rate, he thinks the Mount
-, Temple might have reached the spot
49, before the Titanic sank and this sup
~, position, he says, seems to have been
' entertained by others on board Their
vessel sighted the Carpathia next
morning, Mr.. Zurich says and keeping
Ter in touch with wireless communica-
'se- tion they were conversant with
on the story of the wreck. Mr. Zurich al
OF so says the Mount Temple sighted inn
- mense fields of ice Sunday and Mon.
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