Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-05-01

| they were placed in the morgue and even
| then they bad not been segregated. by
| morning they Will have all been prepaf-
ed for close scrutiny, and persons who
| found only bitter disappointment in the
death house. today, will go back, tomor-
| row, with dentists plates and other
equipment, prepared 10 exhaust every re-
source before turning backward.
1nasmueh as a majority of those cast
| again into the sea were composed of
| members of the Titanic's crew and sec
ond and third class passengers, their rel
atives were not on hand in Halifax In
great numbers For this reason the shock
aud dis appointment was not as great as
il would otherwise have been. Eliminat-
ing Mr.. Widenerfs 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 re-committed,
He was Frederick sutton of Philadelphia
Reginald Hale was among the second
cabin passengers on the list
Perhaps never was an occasion so
fraught with gruesome aspects, marking
one of the last chapters of one of the
greatest disasters on record, attended
with more respectful silence and lack of
morbid curiosity than was the docking
of the Mackay- Bennett today. Not a half
dozen of those actually concerned in the
dead came to the pier proper, and the
general public contributed not more than
200 They stood in silence overlooking
the terrace into the navy dock yard, 300
wards away. They could see nothing but
the upper structure of the Mackay-Ben-
nett. tents housing the collins and can
vas lane under which the dead were be-
ing carried to the long file of undertake
ers' wagons which would their way up
the hill to the morgue.
It was nearly o'clock when sem
blance of order had been achieved IN
the morgue and then the claimants Of
bodies began to arrive by twos and
threes. Nicholas Biddie of Philadelphia,
who accompanied Vincent Astor here in
private ear, went alone to identity the
coloners body and it was the first pre-
pared for removal to New York. The
body of Isador Straus, few moments
later, was turned over to Maurice Roths-
child of New York, and in quick success
sion. with little or no ceremony, the bod
les of Frank d. Millett. the artist; II. J.
Allison of Montreal and many others
were in charge of friends.
BY tomorrow nearly all of the claimed
viii be on their way home for burial.
One man whose name was not
learned, said he recognized one of the
bodies as that of j. p, Clark, assist
ant purser on the Titanic. Letters in
pockets of the clothing on another
body bore the name of Arthur White.
The letters had been mailed to him
from Newark, n. j., care of the
steamer olympic ON which it is pre-
sumed he crossed the Atlantic before
returning on the Titanic.
There are only five women's bodies
among the unidentified, and as one
| of them appears to be that Of a
| Swedish woman and the other four
| those of Italians. there is little hope
| Of recovering the body of Mrs. Isa-
| dor Straus who stayed by the ship
with her husband.
| One little child, a baby girl of about
| two years. lies among the unclaimed,
naneless and without u suggestion
| of who her parents were or are. OF
| al the bodies picked up here was the
| only one that the waves bore without
| the aid of life belt She was found
| floating serenely looking very much
| like big doll.
Despite predictions to the contrary
nearly all of the bodies bore indica-
tons that the victims had died swift
Is if not almost painlessy. In many
| cases their features We're cain and
! with The exception of those who had
been severely injured by debris, oil
! while lighting for their lives in thu
disintegrating ship they were remark
ably free from the stamp of horror o.
suffering. All We're in a remarkable
state of preservation, for they had
been found in the cold water north o.
/, the Gulf stream.
/ Samuel Wallach. who inspected par
of the unidentified, today. said he hat
but faint hope OF finding the body o
his brother in-law. Henry Il. Harris
the theatrical manager Nevertheless
he viii remain here until he has eX
hausted every means in his power 4
recover it. He sent q wireless messag
tonight, to the cable ship Nina. whiel
viii bring in additional dead
i From latest reports received here
the Nina had on board not more thai
10 bodies, among them that of Pres
ident Hayes Of the Grand Trunk an
judging from the fact that PRACTICAL.
all of the bodies found floating by tn
Mackay- Bennett We're held up by lif
belts it Is believed that the Nina vii
fine few more.
1--WE buried so many al sea- said Cap
tain Larnder. simply because we eoul,
not accommodate them. We had Unite,
embalming supplies and it was absolutel'
necessary to consign many TO the deep
. None, If any, passengers. | believe, wer
buried except perhaps in the case OF Nh
: Widener's valet The great majority o
those sunk We're unidentified, withou
even clothes as a means of telling VIII
they We're. We had instructions when W
left here TO pick up all the Titanic's dea
! we found. but under the conditions
|, was impossible 10 carry out these in
stiuctions'
starting with the departure of the shi
IfrdIn Halifax on Wednesday. April I
the commander told how fog and ba