South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-06-01
Work of Identification is Slow,
in Several Cases Two People
Claiming the Same Body
Women Were Stabbed.

QUEBEC. Que June 1.-Canada's
dead came home 10 her Sunday.
Floating in on an off tide early sun
day morning the funeral ship Lady
Grey swung into her crape-d raped
wharf in Princess slip with ISIS Of
those who went down when the state
Is Empress Of Ireland was rammed by
. dingy 'ttlc collier off Father Point
late Thursday night.
While II. VI. s. Essex with ensign
and union jack at half mast stood by
as IL TO guard the low-lying Lady
Grey. files of sturdy blue Jackets
passed coffin after coffin ashore. I'm
der a low, hastily formed shed that
served as a mortuary chapel they laid
them in long rows. Later until night
fell, long lines OF sad-faced men and
women walked between. picking out a
pitiful few Of the faces they knew.
Only as Of the bodies had been
identified when a halt was called.
Twelve more had been marked with a
little brown paper tag, but of the
whole 200 that the St. Lawrence gave
back only 60 have been surely identi
fled and claimed.
Gloom Over Quebec
The scenes 10 which the dominion is
remarkably strange were heartrending
in the extreme. They cast a gloom
over all Quebec Nothing like it. un-
less the landing OF the Titanic victims
! has ever been known in a 1t. Lawrence
port IL was almost a Canadian dis
aster and citizens are mourning as a
nation for those on whom the loss
falls heaviest
Mothers. fathers. sons. daughters
and even friends or acquaintance
were in the groups that filed past the
| gruesome rows OF open caskets Sun
day.
Saddened and crushed by the aw-
! fulness of the disaster most of them
i We're weeping, the tears streaming
! down their faces in sympathy for the
others as well as grief for their own
loss Now and then, as they recOg
nized in a still form one who had left
them. they fell on their knees and
prayed. thankful at least for the OPP
portunity 10 show their respect by "A
VI burial service on land.
Sometimes il was "A husband. cast
up by some prank OF fate while the
mother of his children died. who found
her under the sombre arches of the
Princess slip. or mother searching
perhaps for father and children or u
brother who found there the sister
with whom he started TO the old
country a few days ago. Twice il was
a father who found only one of the
three he had lost
Two Claim Body.
Once even IL was two fathers who
and then after the queer fashion of
the old Quebec folk. il was the mayor
and the priest who were called in to
decide. Like the verdict Of Solomon
there was no appeal and the father
hvhO won bore the little body away
while the other said no more.
One OF the most pathetic experiences
MAS that of G. w Cullen. a Montreal
merchant whose wife and two children
we're lost in the wreck. Cullen was
Dne of the first on the scene. Even
" lille the sailors were still carrying In
heir burdens he paced restlessly back
bad forth scanning each casket as
Boon as il was laid down. In one of
he pitiful little pine boxes he found
pne of the lost ones. Maud "a 6-year-
bid daughter.
Beside the body of Maud Cullen lay
, NOR OF these tiny forms. none over
years old and some scarce six
nonths cullen looked at them all
nd at last with cry Of JOY he found
he other
'.That is my boy he said TO those
bout him and went on 10 search for
lis wife.
Another Claims It.
Scarcely had he turned away when
II. Archer OF Saskatchewan. who
$50 lost a wife and child. stopped sud
emily beside the same coffin.
That's Alfred" he cried That's
by boy" and he hurried Co the Coro-
er where Coroner JOhceur has es-
ablished an office His astonish-
pent when he found cullen had
laimed the boy was pitiful.
Canon Scott. rector OF St Mathews
rought the two men together and
hey went back 20 view the body again.
but although each was courteous
either would yield. Cullen brought
is maid Jenny Blythe. who was one
the survivors and she backed him
u u. Archer. however. refused 90 re-
nquish his claim and finally it was
greed that Canon scott and Mayor
apoleon DrOuin OF Quebec. should
= ecide. They gave the body To Gull
n and he took il away. Archer aft
rward found the body OF his wife
Incidents similar 20 that OF the
uiien controversy We're common. AL
0st every body was bruised. None
as properly clothed and owing tOl
e haste with which they were ship
ed to Qaebec none had the stten-
on OF an undertaken Faces We're
ruised and battered and many limbs
ere broken. proving the terrible
rec OF the shock that east them from
heir berths
a horrible feature OF this gruesomeI
DRY was told by shose who came up
ON RimouskL
Women Were Stabbed
Men" They say. were found with
hives I'm their hands and women were
abbed 10 death"
Caught in the hell below decks.
Isbands and wives. afraid 10 face the
rk waters that crept upon them. re-
lived 20 die first in an easier way.
be- waters gave up their secret.
When Coroner JOlicOur decided that
ratification by electric light should
t be trusted. ne ordered the wharf
osed. IL viii be opened early Mon
~ and one more day will be given TO