The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-05-08
brings IN BODIES
VICTIMS OF The GREAT OCEAN
TRAGEDY FOUND

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FUNERAL ship ARRIVES
OF the Two Hundred ard Forty-Seve,
Corpses Recovered, Only One Hun
dred and Ninety Are Taken t.
Port, the Body Of Col. John Jacol
Astoc Being One.
The cable ship Mackay-Bennett
which came with 100 Of the White
Star liner Titanic's dead into Halifa,
Tuesday, first cast gloom over the
city by her mere presence as fun
eral ship, then sent shock through
those waiting here for bodies with
the announcement Of her commander
that 81 Of those reported by wireles:
az identified had Of necessity beer
cast again into the sea.
Yet none, not even the few here
whose friends or relatives had thus
been recommitted to the Atlantic, ex-
pressed any criticism Of Capt. Lard
ner's action, believing him sincere in
his explanation that lack OF space on
board, shortage OF embalming ma
terials and the mutilation Of bodies
were solely responsible for his course
That there was no faVoritism
shown In the reburial, in that the
bodies Of prominent persons were not
kept aboard to the exclusion Of the
more humble, is indicated by the
White Star lines announcement that
among those bodies sunk again was
that Of George D. Widener, the Phil
adelphia capitalist. Although this
appears to be a mistake In that Mr..
Widener's son, now here, believes
from Capt. Lardner's description that
the body was that of his fathers val
ct, the name Widener stands on the
official list Of reburied as issued by
the White Star line late today.
The one great hope held ont to the
bereaved tonight was the fact that
there are stretched in the rough pine
cofins In the norge go bodies for
which there was no claimant. By
morning all will have been prepared
for close scrutiny and persons who
found only bitter disappointment in
the death house today will 80 back
tomorrow prepared to exhaust every
resource before turning homeward.
A majority OF those cast again into
the sea were members Of the Titanic's
crew and second and third class pas
.sengers. Eliminating Mr.. Widener's
name from the list there remains, so
far as can be checked up from the
data here, the name Of only one first
class passenger recommitted. He
was Frederick Sutton OF Philadel-
phia. Reginald Hale was among the
second cabin passengers.
Perhaps never was an ocean event
60 traught with gruesome aspects
marking closing chapter In the
greatest sea disaster In history at
tended with more respectful silence
and lack OF morbid curiosity than
was the docking of the Mackay-Ben-
nett today.
Not half dozen Of those actually
concerned visited the pier proper and
of the general public not more than
200. They stood in silence over
looking the terrace into the navy
dock yard 80 yards away. They
could see nothing but the upper
structure Of the MackssBennett
tents housing the coff1ns and q can
vas lane in which the dead were be-
Ing carried to the long file of under
takers wagons for transfer to the
morgue.
1t was nearly o'clock when the
claimants OF bodies began to arrive
there by twos and threes. Nicholas
Biddle OF Philadelphia, who accom-
panied Vincent Astor here in a pri-
vate car, went alone to identify the
body OF Col. Astor, and it was the
first prepared for removal to New
York.
The body of Isador Straus a few
minutes later was turned over to
Maurice Rothschild Of New York,
and in quick succession with little
or no ceremony, the bodies of Frank
D. Millet, the artist, H. ]. Allison
Of Montreal, and others who were
given in charge Of friends. BY to-
morrow all Of those claimed will be
on their way home for burial.
The slight scrutiny Of the uniden-
titled tonight led to what may mean
the Identification Of two Of the vic
tins. One of those whose name was
not learned, said he recognized one
OF the bodies as that Of 5. F. P. Clark,
assistant purser OF the Titanic, while
letters found on another body bore
the name OF Arthhr White. The let
tsrs had been mailed from Newark,
N. J.
There are only FIVE women's bodies
among the unidentified. AS one OF
them appears to be that Of Swedish
woman and the other four those Of
Italians, there is little hope appar-
emily OF recovering the body of Mrs.
Straus.
4 baby girl of about two year lies
among the unclaimed and nameless.
OF all the bodies picked up hers was
the only one that the waves bore
without aid OF a life belt.
Despite predictions to the contrary
nearly all Of the bodies bore indlca-
h I'D E;aH Swift