The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-05-13
TWENTY,A|NE MORE
BODIES RECOVERED
Lusitania Victims Picked Up
twenty Miles From Wreck.
ONE DRIFTING IN WRECKAGE

Twelve Others Landed on Southern
| Coast of neutrality-suspicious.
Old Baby Picked Up Alive,
Mother Perished.
I London, May I2.-According to the
Daily Mail Alfred G. Vanderbilt's body
has been recovered and is being
brought to Queenstown. ID -
Queenstown, May l2.-Thirteen
more bodies of Lusitania victims have
been recovered from the sea In the last
twenty-four hours, and hope has been
revived that at least few more bodies
may be recovered and in some cases
identified.
/ Sixteen bodies were brought into
Queenstown by a tug chartered by the
Cunard line. None of the bodies has
been identified
The bodies are those of nine men,
five women, a boy and a girl. They
were floating with life belts on. 20
miles east of the scene of the disaster.
All the bodies have greatly de-
Perforated and, in consequence, identi-
fication will be difficult.
The tugs decks were Uttered with
deck chairs and other wreckage from
the Lusitania
The body Of Albert Thompson of To-
ronto, brought in by an admiralty
trawler last night, was found drifting
with wreckage near the coast not far
from the scene of the disaster.
Twelve Landed on Coast.
Ten unidentified bodies have been
landed at Baltimore, on the southern
Irish coast, AZ miles southwest of Cork.
Seven of these were found last night
and three were brought ashore.
Two other bodies have been brought
ashore at Castletownsend. OF the
bodies at Baltimore, six are men and
four are women.
The Cunard line dispatched tug to
| Baltimore to bring all II bodies to
Queenstown. Relatives OF missing per-
sons who had planned to leave are go
ing to remain here in the hope OF
making further identifications. 1t Ia
reported here that one of the bodies
at Baltimore had on it papers bearing
the name Harrison, Main street
bridgeport, Conn, and, that on another
there was found the circular of asfirm
called Florence & Co, toothbrush
manufacturers, in Connecticut. The tug
dispatched by the Cunard company to
the scene of the disaster to look for
bodies has not returned to Queens
town.
| May Be Carried TO West Coast.
A current of from two and onehaR
to three knots runs around the Old
Head of Kfnsale, and this has been in
creased by a stiff east wind which, at
the end of eight or nine days, may
carry bodies ashore around Cape Clear,
on the west Irish coast. The winds or
dinarily prevailing would have brought
bodies ashore on the Atlantic coast
lof Cornwall, England.
| There are indications that the heavy
death roll among the American men In
the first cabin was due to a scarcity of
lifebelts, many Of them having given
the life preservers they had obtained
to helpless women. There is a pre-
ponderance of testimony that no Amer
lean man got into a boat until after
he had been thrown into the water
Webb Wade, secretary Of Alfred G.
Vanderbilt, has not yet been able to
arrange with the authorities to comply
with his request that all necessary
tugs be chartered at the expense Of
the Vanderbilt family to search for
other bodies as we'll as that Of Mr..
Vanderbilt.
vanderbiits Last Moments.
Until he heard the story of DIR. Owen
Kenan of Wilmington, N. c.. Mr.. Wade
believed his employer had entered one
OF the boats smashed against the side
of the ship, but Doctor Kenan's story
is so definite II is accepted generally
as the correct version of Mr.. Wander
bilt's last moments aboard the ship.
Doctor Kenan said that as he went
down with the ship he saw Mr.. Van
derbilt leaning against a gateway door.
and that Mr.. Vanderbilt called out to
him: They have got us now"
Mr.. Vanderbilt, according to Doctor
Kenan. wore what looked like q heavy
oyercoat around which a lifebelt had
ikeen buckled Doctor Kenan did net
see him come to the rail of the
lsteamer.
Lady Allan. wife of Sir Montague
Allan OF Montreal, left on a special
train for London. Lady Alian's back
was injured. but she was well enough
ito travel under the care OF several doc
tors and nurses. A number of other
survivors went to London with her.
Mother Lost. Baby unhurt.
/ Probably the most unconcerned of
the survivors la the eighteenmonths
iold son of Mrs. ii. Booth. The mother
lost her life. Mr.. Booth was not on the
ship. The baby was picked up In the
water. but apparently Is suffering no
III effects A number Of the survivors
recognized the infant and remembered
that the father had remained behind
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