The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-05-01
Started at Halifax This Morning When the First
Bodies Were Placed on Train to be
Taken Home
VERY FEW MORE WILL EVER Be FOUND
By Tomorrow Night All Bodies Will be Prepared
and Probably Sent Away From
the City.
Fifteen Were Women.

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= Fifteen Were Women. .
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= HALIFAX, May 1.-The work =
= of the Mackay-Bennett is told in .
. the following table compiled to- =
. day: =
= Number of bodies recovered .
= BOG. .
= Bodies buried at sea, 116, =
. Bodies brought to Halifax 100. =
= Identified bodies buried at sea =
= 81. .
. Identified bodies brought to =
= Halifax 130. =
= Unidentified bodies buried at =
. sea SO. .
= Unidentified bodies brought =
. to Halifax 60. =
= Women found, Is. .
= Women identified, s. =
. Women buried at sea, II. (Four .
= identified, seven unidentifled) =
= Women brought to Halifax, 4 =
y (all identifiedl. =
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HALIFAX. May 1.-The van of the
funeral procession which is to extend
across the entire continent, started
at S:45 today when the l. c.. R. ex-
press left for the west Weeping rela-
ives and friends of the Titanic VIC
tins arrived at the depot more than
an hour before the time of departure
and waited impatiently to begin the
sad journey home.
The body of John Jacob Astor was
placed in the private car Oceanic last
night. Through the long hours of the
night Vincent Astor, his chief heir,
sat weeping beside the casket. Young
Astor is on the verge of collapse.
Isidor Straus body was placed in
an express car along with several
others. 1t is In charge of Norris
Rothschild of Philadelphia Roths-
child had hopes that the body of Mrs
Straus, who refused to leave her hus-
band, even after she realized that It
meant death, was among the unidenti-
fed forms brought in, but he was dis
appointed. Little hope was held out
that her body had been picked up by
the Nina and he decided to accom-
pany Straus' body home.
Other bodies on the train were
those of Englehart c. Otsby of Prov
idence, R. l.; R. F, White, of Boston
and H. ]. Allison of Chesterville, On
tario
The work of embalming proceeded
rapidly during the night and today.
Arrangements have been completed to
run number of special cars out Of
Halifax tonight. 1t was believed today
that by tomorrow night nearly all of
the identified bodies would be ready
for shipment
DARBY and Joan.r
HALIFAX, May 1.-The icy waves
of the north Atlantic separated Isidor
straus and his wife-"Darby and
Joan after they had met death to-
gether on the sinking Titanic.
When the body of Isidor Straus left
Halifax today with c. j. Riley and NJ.
relatives, there ended
years of closest comradeship,- az COM
radeship between the husband and
wife which could not be severed even
when the Titanic prepared for her
final plunge into the Atlantic.
Up to today the mourners looking
for the Straus bodies had hoped again
hope that that of Mrs. Straus would
be with that of her husband aboard
The Morgue ship Mackay- Bennett.
But the Mackay- Bennett brought in
out four women's bodies, and all were
ater identified.
Captain Lardner confidently assured
Norris Rothsohild that the eleven
bodies of women buried at sea could
not by any possibility have included
that of Mrs. Straus. Seven of the
eleven committed to the deep were
Identified and the other four, the. cap
tain was certain were stewardesses
on the Titanic
Didn't Find Rood
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