The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-28
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company, which leased the Eastland
last Saturday, Mr.. Hoyne said:
MIR. Greenebaum in response to
questions at the inquest, admitted he
knew nothing about the Eastland, but
added that he knew, or had heard,
that she was not seaworthy."
| Other agencies investigating the dis
aster are continuing their work. Sec
rotary William c. Redfield of the de-
| partment of commerce, who is here
on instructions from President Wilson,
said he had not decided whether his
! inquiry will extend to all the lake
passenger traffic or whether it will
be confined to the Eastland.
For the time being we will confine
ourselves to the case in hand" he
said.
Mayor Thompson Home.
Mayor Hale Thompson, who was
visiting the Panama-Pacific expo
sition at San Francisco when the East
land accident occurred, returned to
Chicago today and went Immediately
to the city hall. where he held con-
ference with his department heads.
In a drilling rain, Chicago today paid
tribute to the Eastland dead
In Cicero, where the plant of the
Western Electric company is located.
community services were held and
mere it was that the sorrow was more
deeply felt. Mayor Thompson had is
sued a proclamation making the day
trade held a short session and ad-
journed; ball games were postponed,
and many large and small business
houses closed their places.
Flags at Half Mast.
Flags were at half mast while city
and county offices were closed.
AS the solemn professions passed
through the streets heads were barred,
and as the little churches where many
of the bodies were taken would &C
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crowds paid homage on the outside,
giving little heed to the Indictment
weather.
Auto trucks donated by business
houses were used to carry bodies, as
there were not enough hearses to go
round.
On Twenty-fifth street huge truck
passed. On the drivers seat was a
man in silk hat, white gloves and
frock coat. Inside were three bodies
"a family.
On Forty-eighth avenue hay rack,
draped with crepe and driven by a silk
hated man, passed. 1t contained two
bodies.
Mistaken Identity Prevents Funeral.
Mistaken Identification prevented
looking for?S asked a policeman at
the morgue as a boy walked in and
looked anxiously about.
MARY Morgan" came the answer
MARY Morgan has already been
identified and her body has been TAX
en- home' said the officer.
81 know all about that" said the
boy, ''but the body at Morgan's is not
Mary"
A short time later the boy identified
Mary Morgans body as one that had
been brought from the river on Mon
day. The mistaken identification had
been made by her own father
Lifting Steamer Eastland.
Thirty of the dead were buried
from the Church of st. Mary of
Czestochwa. At Mary Queen of Heav-
en- church, service for twenty-five took
place.
Work of lifting the Eastland was
started today, but it is expected that
ten days or two weeks will be required
to complete the task.
In the meantime, the divers have
work and the number of
bodies in the boat can not be deter
mined until it is placed on its keel.
U S. Officials Relieve Police.
The Eastland was taken charge of
by federal officials today, replacing city
policemen. The wrecking boat Favor
lite, said to be one of the largest and
best equipped of its kind, began the
task of raising the half submerged
craft. 1t will take ten days to raise
the boat, according to those in charge.
While this is going on, forty divers
will search the river bottom for a ra-
dius of two blocks of the point where
the boat capsized. One more body was
recovered early today.