The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-25

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. |
NEW YORK, April 25.-Two hun
dred and five bodies Of victims of the
Titanic disaster were on board tina |
norgue ship Mackay-Bennett, on her
gruesome cruise off the Newfoundland
banks, according to a wireless dis
patch given out at the White Star Of
fees here today.
The sea is strewn for miles with
bodies of victims according to tho
dispatch, but the captain of the Mac
kay-Bennett expressed the belief that
a majority of the lost would never
come to the surface. The wireless
read.
Bodies are numerous in latitude
41.35 north, longitude 47.35 west, ex.
tending many miles east and west.
Mail ships should give this wide
berth. Medical opinion Is that death
has been instantaneous in all cases
owing to exposure when bodies drawn
down in vortex. Drifting in dense
fog since noon yesterday. Total
picked up 205. We brought away all
lembalming fluid in Halifax, enough for
ITO with weeks fine weather thina
we would pretty we'll clean up the
relics of the disaster. 1t is my opin-
ion that the majority will never come
to the surface"
Through the Ice.
BOSTON, April 25-That the course
of the doomed liner Titanic lay
through miles of email ice" for hours
before she struck the fatal berg when
she was running at more than 20
i knots an hour was the statement Of
Captain Lord Of the Leyland liner
] Californian in an interview given the
! United Press today.
I'VE were directly in the wake Of
the Titanic the night of the wreck,
said Captain Lord, and about Is or
18 miles behind her. The Titanic
struck between 10 and II o'clock. At
u 6 we began running into the ice fields.
Most of this was small ice-caEes
from one to Ave feet thick and from
one to five feet square. In this small
!, Ice, however, were some veritanle
mountains Of ice. At times we were
forced to reverse the engines, fioat
slowly up to the larger bergs and
when the bow touched them, start the
engines to push them out of the way
I'VE had made about 10 miles this
, way when darkness came down quick
, Ily and we had to stop completely, ior
the bergs got larger every foot We
went The ice field was at least ter
, miles square and may have been two
, or three times that size. Our look
out ordered two men to the crow ;
, nest about 7:30-could not see the
> edge of it. Believing safety better
than speed | ordered the engines
! shut down at 10 O'Clock and allowet
the ship to drift until o'clock. We
did not hear of the wreck until then.
Olympic Held up.
/ SOUTHAMPTON. April 25.--De
, mands, threats and pleas failed to fl
the stcke hold of the giant White
a Star liner Olympic. sister ship Of th'
$ lost Titanic, and today she still la,
off Spitshead, crippled, because Of th
strike of the firemen who proteste,
/ against the life saving apparatus pu
aboard the big vessel.
( The White Star line exerted ever
effort to get the 800 firemen who walk
ed out yesterday, back to their posts
or to fill their places with new mer
But the men declared that the
would not ship If the canvas collar
3 sihle lifeboats, hurriedly added to tn
Olympic's complement for this tril
following the Titanic disaster, wor
: not replaced by more substanti;
q wooden boats They fatty declare
Il the canvas boats useless In case {
!. emergency.
Ii When the officials endeavored
obtain non-union stokers and oilers {
take the places of the men, the hui
dreds of seamen of the Olympic pr
- tested and threatened to Join Il
a strikers il any but union men We
m employed.
r. The striking firemen today took u
X der consideration the repeated offe
| of the line to test the collapsible