The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-11
WEEPs
WITH THOSE WHO
SORROW FOR DEAD
Reverent and Mournful Tribute
Paid to One Hundred and
Forty Victims Of Disaster
All Business Stops
During Funerals
No Hope Held Out for Addi-
tional Rescues, Death Toll
Now Standing at Eleven
Hundred Eorty-nine

Queenstown, May 10.-Rever-
entity and mOurnfuliy Queenstown
today paid the last hon0rs OF the
honor of f4O bodies OF the t.t4e
men. women and little children
who lost their lives when the
IMsitaIsts was shattered and sunk
by Q German submarine.
With all shops and all business
suspended and only the toIling OF
bells and the dirgcs Of bands 20
break the stiffness of q perfect
day, the entire city, wellnigh all
south and east Ireland, their
citizens. private or Official; their
soldiers and their sailors, escort
ed the plain brown collins over
the hills to tho Sailors Cemetery
In the peaceful valley just out
side. But one had to know be-
forehand that those collins were
plain and brown, for today they
were draped In flags and hidden
by masses OF flowers. the gift Of
ofRciaIs and sorrowfng private
citizens.
OF those buried today, seventy six
bodies had been identified and sixty
four were unknown. Every effort
had been made to learn who ali had
been in Mfe. but that was impossible.
Every train was met at the station.
every one OF the delegates which ar
rived from every corporation OF the
country was asked to help, IL they
could. but there was no result. Inc
seventy-si lie near the graves Of the
French sailors who persisted on the
coast in a sea battle with the meet
of Napoleon-ths others viii snare
common graves, the little children to.
~ vrxff an a
were united in death. the women IN
another and the men In still anotn'
The scene was most impressive as tbs
bluejackets appeared in the street. The
thoroughfares were all crowded at TINS
time. Although there WAS quiet, ye'
there had been some hurrying, some
iostling as men and women sought van
tage points.
Reverence the Dead.
But at the sight OF the first nag
draped coffin the mulritudes stopped
still. The men, as II at q signal. re-
moved their hats and the women de-
youtly muttered prayers. The auto
mobiles and the other vehicles in the
streets were checked. and IL was in thi'
almost deathlike silence that the Amer
lean dead were passed along.
Not all of the American dead were IL
the little procession. however. doSeS
or more bodies are TO be returned II
the United States. Charles Frohman'i
secretary arrived from London thii
morning and will take charge of thu
body of his late employer. The bodies
of Isaac r. Trumbuil, of Bridgeport
Conn; of Mrs Henry Macdonald, o.
New York: of Charles H. Stevens ant
DR.. r. s. Pearson; OF d. Walker, DR.
Pearson's secretary; of Hugh Compton
the seventeen-year old son of the Bootl
Lines president; of the younger Pearl
&c. r. BrodericlL of Boston. and Mrs
Spillman. Of Detroit, will be returned
to the United States also. With then
will go the body of Mrs. X. ID. Shymer
which was identified today early. Mrs
Shymer was once the wife OF Brftisi
nob1eman, but later married an Amer
lean.
Bright Eky-Only Man SORROWS.
The dawn came cloudless and tn
sun rose on a city of grief. All nigh
long preparations had been continues
to make ready for the last event. Thu
municipal officials. the representative
of the admiralty. the military, and o.
the Cunard line. had exhausted ever.
possible means to ascertain names TO
those dead and to discover, II posi-
BILE, more bodies alonk the coast neal
the scene Of the wreck. A storm and
q rising sea. however. had made thf'
work fruitlsss. There was nothing
to be done but to wait for the las
hour.
United States Consul Frost had Ia
borede without sleep for many hours
and cooperating with the military at