Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-05-09
BODIES OF DEAD
LIE IN LONG ROWS
AT QUEENSTOWN
S hee ted Corpses Cover
Floors Of All Principal
Buildings.
SPECTACLE POIGNANT
BEYOND DESCRIPTION
Indescribable Confusion Reigns
Everywhere Through
out City.
ALL FLAGS ARE AT HALF-MAsT
Weeping Women and Grief.Torn
Men Searching for Their Miss
ing Loved Ones.

OUEENSTOwN. IRELAND. May g.
dead. Long lines of sheeted corpses
cover the floors Of all the principal
buildings. The Cunard wharf is close
packed with those washed up from the
Lusitania, and found floating on the
sea.
The mortuarics OF the city's few hos
pitals are overiowing with the bodies
Of those who succumbed to the shock
and exposure. Indescribable confusion
reigns everywhere.
The spectacle at the market hall is
poignant beyond all description. The
majority of the bodies there are OF
women and little children, many Of
which were picked up tight-locked in
each others arms after tho sea mas
sacre. Between the lanes OF corpses
weeping women and grief-torn men,
who made no effort to still their sobs,
go slowly. peering beneath the en-
shrouding sheets TO find their dead
AS an example of the confusion
which has swept, not only the survi-
vors. but also the officials of their
feet. tho body of Charles Frohman. the
noted New York and London theatrical
magnate, lay uncovered for hours
y,
Identification was made by an acquaint-
ance. Most OF the others are still un-
Identified.
FEW FIRST-CABIN PASSENGERS
AMONG THOSE RESCUED
OF the 1sS Americans on board the
Lusitania, the American consul here
could account for only siXty-nine sur
vivors to-day. The work OF compiling
list OF survivors necessarily is pro-
ceeding slowly. because of the confu-
sion. Steamship and government Of
hcials and - american consurs office
are swamped. apparently, however,
few first-cabin passengers arc among
those saved. Alfred Gwynne Wander
bilt. Ebert Hubbard. Justus Miles For
man. the playwright; Charles Klein
and other noted Americans still are
missing.
The work OF Identification necessarily
is slow, because many of the victims
appear TO have no friends or relatives
among the rescued. Many of the
bodies are those of babies. At the
Cunard wharf lies the body OF mother
clasping in one arm her fve-month- -old
child.
The hotels arc filled with half
clothed. half-crazed men and women
Many have lost all their valuable and
have no money. Their clothes went
down with the ship. and many half
stripped themselves for their battle
with the sea. Relief is being organized
as quickly as possible for these per-
sons. Some have cabled to their
homes for money. Many. those In the
stcerage. lost everything. and have no
prospect of getting funds.
Women In mems greatcoats. men in
uniforms loaned them by rescuers, some
in blankets. are to be seen in the
streets. Some of the survivors wore
wrist watches. which had stopped at
about o'clock. The bodies of several
handsome young American women are
lying In the market hall. unidentified.
The funerals of a large number of
the victims probably will be held on
Monday. The entire city is draped In
mourning. and all the flags are at half
mast. Church bells, tollng for the
dead. add to tho funeral atmosphere.
Fifty soldiers have been requisitioned
to dig graves, there not being adequate
labor In the vicinity.