The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1914-05-14
TRIBUTE PAID TO
HEROES WHO DIED
ON MEXICAN SOIL

new YORK. May Ito the men OIL
the navy who died in the occupation
of Vera Cruz, the city, the state and the
nation paid tribute today in a demon
stration chieny remarkable for its
silence and solemnity. For four miles
through the city streets, the funeral
cortege passed and behind it, in an
open carriage, rode the president. lie
sat for the most part with hear barred,
though the May ~ beat down on him
and the mercury climbed above 20.
Perhaps 100000 persons saw the
II cofins, each on a 'caisson, borne
from the Battery plaza IN lower Man
haitian to the navy yard In Brooklyn,
The procession vas nearly two hours
In passing. Though there we're but IL
OF the dead in the procession, Secretary
OF the Navy Daniels made 1t plain that
the ceremonies were for all who had
died at Vera Cruz, not only the IL
whose bodies were brought up by the
cruiser Montana, but also for Clarencs
Harshbarger and Henry Pulliam, who
have since died.
Wilson Grief Stricken.
The religious ceremony at the navy
yard was more impressive, IL possible
than was h sight Of the slow-movins
cortege. ~
President Wilson had no formal adj
dress prepared for the ceremonies at
NAAS DAOShAJ navy JAW lSAbSs
tary Daniels read the names Of the
American dead in whose honor the
services were held, the presidents
reply was delivered with slow impress
s~iveness. Els voice was low and fer
vent and his face was grave.
Tho cortege began to move at !
o'clock, the ships bands playing a fun.
eral march. and the b~luejackets with
arms reversed. The crowd stood with
barred heads. Thought the skyscrape6
canon of lower Broadway past ole
Trinity church and into the city hall
plaza, the procession passed. At city
hall, whose columns and portico were
draped in black, the cortege halted
while Mayor Mitchell placed on a
tribute. AS he did sc the bluejackets
stood at present arms, and 800 school
children sang Nearer My God to
Thee"
Gathered at the city hall were per-
haps 1000 spectators. From there the
route lay north across Manhattan
bridge to Brooklyn and the navy yard.
There the ceremonies were simple
and comparatively brief. A hymn by
the ba~ttleships' bands, an invocation
by Chaplain William G.. Cassard, of
Annapolis. then President Wilson's adj
dress. Prayers by Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise and Father John p. Chidwick,
chaplain OF the Maine, followed. Three
VolleyB fired by q detachment of
marines from the Texas and Taps" by
a bugler completed the program.
List Of Hero Dead. VA
The dead from Vera Cruz are: q,
Boswell, Louis Frank, chief gunner's
mate, battleship Michigan, Coulterville,
Ill. .y,y y
Defabbio. Gabriel, A.. gunner's mate,
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De Lowry, francis p, seaman, bat
tleship New Hampshire. Pittsburgh.
Devorey, Frank ordinary seaman,
battleship South Carolina, Blakesburg,
Ia. .U.
Fisher. Elzie c., ordinary seaman,
battleship New Hampshire. Forest,
Miss. "
Fried. Louis Oscar. ordinary seaman,
battleship Arkan5as, Gretna, Fla.
Frohlichstein, z. H, seaman, battle
ship New Hampshire, Mobile, Ala. .
Haggerty, DanieltA. \, private, marine
corps, Cambridge, Mass.
Lane, Dennis j., seaman, battleship
New Hampshire, New York city.
Marten. Samuel, private. marine
corps. Chicago.
Percy, Rufus Edward, private marine
corps, Concord, N. H. .
Poinsett, George, seaman, battleship
Florida, Philadelphia.
Schumacher, John F., coxswain, bat
teship Florida. Brooklyn. ~
Smith, Charles Allen, ordinary sea-
man. battleship New Hampshire, Phila-
delphia. +
Stream. Albin Eric, ordinary seaman,
battleship New Jersey, Brooklyn.
Summerlin, Randolph, private marine
corps. WIllachoochie, Ga /.
Watson, Walter L., ordinary seaman
battleship Arkansas, Orleans, Mass.
Harshbarger. Clarence r., OF Vir-
Einia. @.., *
Pulliam. Henry. OF Virginia.
or these, IL We're sent from the navy
yard to relatives. The bodies of three,
Haggerty, Percy and watson. will be
taken back on the Montana. for remoya
10 New England