New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-11
Multitude Sobs as ga
Bodies Are Lowered
Into Immense Graves.
CHILDREN LIE IN TINY
COFFINS IN ONE GRAVE
Three More Bodies Identified as
Those of Americans-Sur-
vivOrs Wander Aimlessly.

long line of hearses first passed
through the streets. until nearly night
when the first earth was thrown into
the three huge graves, all Queenstown
mourned for those whose friends and
relatives will never be known.
The whole city sorrowed behind the
suffered windows of the closed shops.
openly in the street. where bare-headed
crowns crossed themselves as the dead
passed By. All but the most necessary
business was suspended, hags were at
half-mast, shades on tn5 private houses
were drawn, and those VINO went
about the streets wore r Gowncast air,
as though in the presence OF per-
sonal bereavement.
throughout the whoia morning the
hcarses came and ven. There were
only a dozen of them IN the city, ana
there we're sixty-four bodies to bury.
From the Cunard Office 70 rhe cemetery
they made dreary journey after Jour
ney. through streets lined with patent
Irish men and women, who. having
done their best for the living, now pald
reverence to the dead
As the sun rose higher the row OF
bodies beside the three great graves
all 80 by 20 feet, heightened. Each
was in cheap brown coffin, but over
them soldiers of the Kings army
mounted guard.
While the procession passed and re-
rassed through the streets Cathohc
and Protestant churches alike held me-
mortal services. High requiem mass
was celebrated in the Cathedral
by Bishop Brown. of Cloyne. rather
Cowley- Clark. Of London, sur
vivor of the disaster, assisted nm
General Hill. the military comman,,
dant: Admiral Sir Charles Cook ana
all the members of their stains were
present The cathedral was packed
with mourners.
Last Group Scans Faces of Dead.
Before the funeral began the Cunard
Offices were besieged by pltiful little
group of men and women. All were
haggard. Many wore bandages. One
or two dragged themselves along on
crutches. They passed through the
room where the dead lay, scanning
each face framed in the coffin with
tense eagerness. Even the bodies
which were horribly mangled drew no
shudder from them. Then they passed
out. muteiy, by twos and threes. lhey
were the survivors who still remalneu
in Queenstown. They had come for a
last look at the dead in the hope that
at the final moment they might recog-
nize some of their loved ones.
Packed in their tiny brown ooxes'
like dolls, lay the babies and children
killed in the disaster. Their races nero
none of the terror which was stamped
81 AOfn9rS
of Queenstown had piled the little COZ
fins high with flowers. -,
Fifty babies less than one year ola
and 100 less than two years died with
the Lusitania Only a few of their
bodies have been recovered. These
were all buried in single grave:
At last only ten bodies lay IN the
Cunard Offices. These were carried
reverently to the hearses and the for
NAL funeral procession started. Mount
ed policemen preceded it, Files OF sol
diers and bluejackets marched on either
side of each hearse. Hundreds OF civil
ians in carriages and afoot followed IN
the rear.
Sobs Accompany Procession.
As the last of the dead whom no one
there could identify moved out toward
where the other collins lay beside the
open graves, children, women and men
in the crowd that watched them passing
wept Sobs accompanied the process
sion all the way TO the burying ground.
There simple prayers were offered by
ministers of each faith and the ghastly
task of lowering the threescore COT
fins into the graves began. Sixteen
members of the Lusitania's crew were
,trith ha nprd
common grave.
Through the afternoon. soldiers who
had worked all last night digging the
huge, cellar-like cavities, labored at re-
filling them. Queenstown's task is not
yet finished The morgues still hold
a number of bodies, which may rest
with the others on the Irish hillside.
Only those first cabin passengers
who were too terribly mutllated for
Identification were buried to-day.
IL may have been that American
bodies were carried in the sombre cor
tege that filed back and forth through
the city to-day. If this be so, there Is
still a chance that relatives may re-
claim them. Wesley Frost, American
Consul at Cork. appealed TO the au-
thortes yesterday and obtained per
mission to have photographs taken OF
all the dead who might be Americans.
As soon as it was daylight, corps OF
photographers were at their grim task.
il was not until they had finished their
work that the funeral began.
Three More Bodies Identified.
Three of the bodies resting in the
morgues were identified to-day They
are those of Mrs. Charles F. Fowles,
Of
of New York, and Mrs. Catherine A.
Wiley. of Lake Forest. III.
The known American dead were car
ried on the shoulders of luejackets
last night from the scattered morgues
where they have been found and placed
upon the Cunard wharf. They lie there
still. their cheap collins draped in the
Stars and Stripes. placed over them by
Consul Frost Men uncover as they
pass them.
Among these is the body OF Charles
Fr6hman. His secretary arrived to-
dav. The American liner New York
will carry the dead man home next /
Saturday. Arrangements have been /
made TO close the Frohman house In |
London. the Duke of lork's Theatre, /
ON the day Of the funeral.
O. II. Hammond, of Bernardsville, /
Y. J.. was in the hospital when ne /
heard that his wife was safe. He arose
and went to the woman,
who proved to be a steerage passenger
81 the same name. She had lost her
husband and was absolutely without
funds. The injured man gave her
money 20 return TO her home and
Imped painfully back TO his own cot.
While searching the coast for the
,ody of Linden ". Bates, ir., Lindell
Bates. jr., and NewtoS B. Knox were
.rrestei and held for an hour at the
military barracks, under suspicion Of
,eing German spies They were re-
eased through Consul Frost