Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-10
Three Queenstown Graves
to Hold Remains of 14O
Lusitania Victims.
CHILDREN LIKE DOLLS
Townspeople Cover Them
With Flowers-Are to Be
Inferred Together.

kinsale, Ireland, May 10.
The verdict of the coro-
ner's jury on Lusitania dis
aster is as follows: THE jury
finds it an appalling crime
contrary to international law
and conventions of all civiliz-
ed nations, and we therefore
charge the officers of the SUBJ
marine and the German en-
peror and government of
Germany, under whose or
des they acted, with the
crime of wilIful wholesale
murder"
London, May 1O-First
Lord of the Admiralty
Churchill stated in the house
of commons that Captain
Turner of the Lusitania had
acknowledged receipt of
messages from the admiralty
giving him warning and di-
rections for the course he
was to take. Churchill said
board of trade inquiry would
be held to determine the cir
cumstances attending the
loss of the Lusitania. "Our
resources" he continued.
do not enable us to provide
destroyers as escorts for mail
and passenger ships"
Queenstown. May 9.-Affidavits by
Miss Jessie Taft Smith of Ohio, DR.
Howard L. Fisher, Major f. Warren
Pearl and Robert Rankin of New
York. are the only permanent records
of the Lusitania disaster obtained by
the United States consulate here. Ali
are brief and none reflects seriously
upon the behavior of the Lusitania's s
crew, except what some witnesses con-
slider the life boat fiasco.
Beginning at noon today, at Consul
Frost's orders, bodies of identified
Americans. covered with the stars and
stripes, were removed from scattered
morgues and placed side by side in
the Cunard offices on the water front
As they were carried through the
streets. British sailors and crowds un-
Cheap brown collins contained the
bodies of Charles Frohman. Mrs. Henry
Macdonald. DR.. F. s. Pearson of New
York. Mrs. Spillmau of Detroit. and
of others. company of
British soldiers today completed dig
ging of three huge graves. each 30 by
20 feet, in which 40 odd unidentified
dead viii be buried tomorrow Moving
Of bodies up the hill to the cemetery
Will begin at $50 Mounted police,
soldiers and civilians Will participate
Many children and little babies still
lie in the morgues like so many dolls
covered them with flow
ers today and it is probable these lit
tie ones viii be placed in a grave to-
gether- Presence of so many children
on the Lusitania was due TO the fact
that Canadian women were going to
to join relatives while their
husbands were at the front
Some on crutches. many limping.
and nearly all bruised, the survivors
left their hotels in silent groups
the afternoon There are
some Americans and many Canadians
and English.
Liverpool May 10.-Chairman Booth
of the Cunard company gave this state
nent 10 the Associated Press: With
reference TO reported statements by
Lusitania passengers l shall not at
.empt 10 draw any conclusion until all
he facts are known. l therefore de-
precate criticism. which can be based
1nly on assumption. L have complete
confidence in Captain Turner's judg-
nent"
Seven Hundred Escape.
London, May 9.-11:OO p. M
The only problem now is to identify
he nameless dead" Thus Superin-
eDdent Dodd of the Cunard COMPANY,
lashed any lingering hope that there
night be further survivors of the Lusi-
ania.
So far as can be ascertained. about
700 persons escaped when the Lusi-
ania took her fatal plunge after be-
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