The Washington herald., 1912-05-03
FORCED To GIVE
UP BODY SEARCH
Storm Bearing Down on Flu.
neral Ship Necessitates
Shortening of Task.
DIE MONDAY MORNING

Halifax. Nova Scotia, May 2-The cable
steamship Nina, which succeeded the
Mackay-Bennett in the search for the
Titanlc's dead, will dock here Monday
morning with the remains Of President
Charles NJ. Tays and fourteen other
bodies on board. Capt. De Carteret re-
ported by wireless. through the Cape
Race station, before dawn to-day that he
was compelled to make a landing, owing
10 heavy eastern storm. which Is bear
ing down upon him. He says further
search is futile because the remaining
bodies have undoubtedly been widely
catered by this time. The widely d.
verged locations OF bodies at present Is
illustrated by a wireless received last
evening from the Nina showing that the
only body picked up yesterday, that of
Assistant Purser 7. W. King, was found
forty-five miles east of one picked up
the day previous. The bodies are proba-
bly, drifting eastward at the rate Of eight
miles q day or faster when the Gulf
Stream catches them.
Capt. De Carteret reports that ice
bergs are extremely numerous just now
and extend as far south on the ocean
highway as 1910 and $3.50.
The aerogram announcing the Nina S
return on Monday follows:
For Ismay-Bodies widely scattered by
gales and moving east eight miles daily
and faster when the Gulf Stream is en-
tered. Excepting an odd one occasion
ally. it is impossible TO keep in touch.
Lack observations. Three days fog and
two days east gale coming compels me
TO abandon search. Return to Halifax.
board. DE CARTERET."
Cannot Keep Bodies.
An undertaken, who does not wish his
name mentioned. said to-day:
These bodies at the morgue, identified
or unidentified. cannot POSSIBLY be held
longer than the end of the week without
endangering public health. The condi-
tion Of practically all. and there are still
fully 10 there, has undergone a marked
change in a day.
The trouble is that conditions COM
PEELED hasty and inadequate embalming.
For instance, they were embalmed when
frozen, when it is impossible to inject the
fluid with success. Unfortunately, the
majority Of the embalmers are students.
Furthermore, the bodies were dead
week or longer before being treated That
viii compel far earlier burials that the
authorities planned, and fear that many
a relative will apply too late even to
identify the remains"
Between forty and sixty unidentified
will be buried with public services to-
morrow Memorial services are to be
held in churches OF various denomina-
tions in the morning. and a special me-
mortal service in honor Of the Titanic's
dead will be held under the auspices of
the Halifax Evangelical Alliance in the
Brunswick Street Church. The Royal Ca
madam Regiment Band will furnish the
music.
Boston, May 2-The bodies of three Of
the victims Of the Titanic disaster, in
cluding that Of Isidor Straus, of New
York, reached the North station from
Halifax this forenoon. Several hundred
people were at the station many Of whom
wept as the horror Of the great sea
tragedy was again brought back to
them. The other two bodies were those
Of Frank D. MiIlet, the noted artist, and
Richard White. a senior of BOwdoin Col
Iege, who lived at Winchendon.