New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-01
MACKAY- BENNETT
ARRIVES WITH HER DEAD
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Providence; W. c. Porter. Of Worcester.
Mass; 4. O. Holverson. Thomas Nc
| Caffery. Of Boston; f. H. Kent c. c.
ZONES W. Vanderhoef, II. S. Nicholson
and Emil Brandeis. Mr.. Brandeis was
a friend OF Samuel Wallach, and the
body was turned over to him.
| BY tomorrow nearly all Of the claimed
| bodies will be on their way home for
burial
What little scrutiny OF the unidentified
dead had been made tonight led 10 VIVA
may mean the identification Of one Or
the victims and what Is held by frien|
IN he the positive identification OF an
other.
The name Butt appears twice III the
list OF dead recovered one Of the VIC
tins was buried at sea, and the other Is
not Major Archibald Butt President
Taft's aid. 1t Is understood that MAJOR
Blanton Winshp. who came here TO
represent the President, will look over
the unidentified dead tomorrow and,
falling to find his friend there will re-
main until the arrival Of the Nina later
in the week.
Cash found on the clothing of the VIC
tins amounted to approximately Sl3,op.
Jewery worth perhaps a great deal
more, but which it Is impossible to APP
praise In the aggregate now, was also
recovered.
One man whose name was not learned
! said he recognized one of the bodies as
that Of j. f. =. Clark, assistant purser
OH the Titanic, while 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 steamship Olympic. on
which Il Is presumed he crossed the At
lantic before returning on the Titanic.
There are only i've wOmen's bodies
among the unidentified. and as ono ot
them appears TO be that Of Swedish
woman and the ..r others thos" OF
Italians there Is little hope apparent OF
recovering the body of Mrs. Isidor
Straus. who stayed by the ship with her
husband
Baby Among the Dead
one of the first bodies picked up. II
was said was that Of two-year-old
girl child. little haxen haired. blue eyed
mite. who still smiled. her lips Curled In l
lisp Of death The seamen have dubbed
together TO bury this unknown Naif ~
the sea and n sailors monument will
grace the infant grave. OF all the bodies
pick up hers was the only one that tn"
waves bore without the aid Of lifebeIt
Mackay- Bennett sailors told how
Colonel John Jacob Aston had been
found still erect IN death, the one body
found whose head and shoulders were
not submerged. He still wore the gold
buCkled belt containing $500 in cur
rency. which he always carried for "m"r-
gcncics. girding his waist beneath cloth
Ing and lifebelt.
1t was recounted, too, how thirty
bodies, many OF them those OF women.
were found near lifeboat which had
capsiZed. 4 wOmans red flannel skirt
Was tied To one OF the OARS Of the boat
survivors had drifted away from the
others and had been overlooked by tn"
Carpathia and the Californian.
Despite predictions To the contrary
nearly all Of the bodies bore indications
that the victims had died swiftly. If not
almost painlessly. In many cases their
features were calm. and, with the cX-
ception Of those who had been severely
injured by debris 0r while lighting FOR
their lives III the disIntcgratins ship.
were remarkably free from the stamp of
horror or suffering. All were In re-
markable state Of preservation. for they
had been found In the cold water north
Of the Gulf Stream Those who had
identified their dead found In this the
one ray OF cheer that has lightened the
gloom Of their crrand 10 Halifax.