The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-28
Funeral Ship Mackay-
Bennett Will Reach
Halifax Tomorrow.
HOUR OF ARRIVAL
STILL UNCERTAIN
Arrangements About Completed
for Landing Bodies of Titanic
Victims-Of the Corpses Re-
covered, III Have Been
Identified and Thirty
Buried at Sea.
lspecla! to The rimos.D,snatch.

\ Halifax. y. s, April 27.-Defnitel
word was received from the steamer
Mackay- Bennett this afternoon that she
had left the scene of The Titanic dis
; astcr at noon on Friday for Halifa X
with her grim cargo and Will reach
mere Monday, the exact time being de-
pendent on weather conditions.
Through the White Star officials and
the mourners committee. arrange
inents have about been completed for
the landing of the bodies Of the Titanic
victims. The bodies of the Identified
dead Will first be brought ashore and
conveyed to the rooms of local under
takers there to be prepared for send
! ing to the homes OF their relatives. The
unidentified dead will be next looked
after. and Will be taken to the May
mower curling rink. whore a force Of
th!rty cmbalmcrs will be In attend
ance in order that thee may be no
I. delay with tho work. After the bodies
nave becn properly prepared. persons
,oohins Tor friends 'r relatives will
! De admitted in order that they might
, seek for loved ones lost in the dis
astcr-
;, AS the Macksy- BcnzSt: only carried
! with her 100 collins, some bodice have
not yet been placed in any rcceptacle
lhey Will be put first Into large
markee that Is to he placed within
tho dock yard grounds, where the
oeath ship will dock, and then coftincd
ana sent to the morEuc. Tho White
otar officials have recedcd from their
position not to admit new spapcr men.
anu the representatives of tho prcss
VIII be admitted TO tho dock
In order that as many bodies as nos
Siple may be prepared for burial before
= the MackaY- Bennett reaches Halifax
= IL was suggested tonight that about
t"enty enosimers he sent out on
spec al boat to meet the death shin.
The matter was taken up with tho
! White Star officials, who viewed I,
with favor and sent wireless to
captain Lardner. asking how many
additional men he could accomrn odate
. Iherc is now here a staff of thirty
four embalmers and twenty five as
sistants. who could be sent out TO
meet tho Mackay Bennett
If Captain Lardner can accommo-
, date these men they will leave Hall
/ Tax in the morning on the steamer
seal The two ships would met about
fourteen hours from Halifax, which
would give them ample time to pre-
pare practically every body for burial.
This would eliminate any nclay after
reaching port 1t would mean that
upon the arrival of the AIackay- Ben
nett the bodies alTeady identified would
be ready for the forwarding 10 tho
homes Of their relatives
y wireless received from the
Mackay- Bennett stated that she was
600 miles east OF Sable Island at &
o'clock tonight. which will bring her
INTO Halifax at O'Clock on Monday
morning. Major Winship. OF Wash
inSton, Is expected here Tomorrow
morning as the representative OF TAFT
for the purpose of identifying the BODY
, OF Major Archibald Butt.
Thirty Buried mt Sen
Especial TO The Times Dispatch.l
New York. April 2I.-The same wire
less dispatch which brought word to
the White Star people that The cable
ship Mackay- Bennett had identif ed
. eighty more bodies picked up from the
sea. OF those who lost their lives with
the Titanic. also gave reasonable
; ground for the assumption that her
commander has buried at sea thirty of
the bodies. The message said that the
cable ship is proceeding west with all
, dispatch 10 Halifax with 1S9 bodies.
1t also states that in it's search of the
waters near where the Titanic went to
her doom the remains of nineteen vic
tins have been found. in addition to
the :05 already reported.
| Altogether tha Mlckay- Bennett has
picked mp 219 bodies. The news that
she will come 10 Halifax with but iS9
makes II evident that her comma nder
has seen Mt to bury at sea tho remain
der.
y from tho Mackay- Bennett, addressed in
the same manner, giving the eighty
new idcntficatiOns. The names include
, that Of Frank u. Milett the artist.
Altogether. Ill of the bodies picked
up have been Identified. At the White
Star offices to-day 1t was said that no
word had come officially that George u.
Widcner's body had been Identified al
though report to this effect came
from philadelphia on Friday.
1t is tae plan of the White Star Of
fic.als TO have all the unidentified and
unclaimed bodies brought in by the
| Mackey- Bennett or tho Nina buried In
| Halifax They also say they Will pro-
vide head stones for the graves of
those whose names arc known, but
who arc not claimed.
The survivors of the Titanic. par
ticuiarly those of the steerage. have
not ceased to come to the White star
| Offices for assistance. In almost every
case help has been given. The White
| star people say that they have pro-
| vidcd over hundred with free trans
portation 10 the points for which they
mad originally set out.