The Green Forest tribune., 1915-07-30
MANY HOMES IN l
 GRIP 0F sORR|
MoRGuEs VISITED ev
 AND RELATIVES sr.rn'sI
 FOR LOVED ONES
LITTLE VIOLENT EMo1,
Some Few Broke Down ,,na
 and Were Cared For By cos' s'
 of Red Cross Nurses "p

Of Red Cross Nurses 0''p ohlcaeo'-Sorrow which sure.s the city with the East,ana .. and engulfed thousand homaa a,sa sriei' found most poignant ernr, Ill the presence of the silent s % or the victims laid ont in n 'O nall of the Second Regiment Chicago's temporary morgue D'
 Side by side lay the doad them walked anxious hundraaa An Ing to identify loved one and Ing they might not succeed nl and again group would nora pltlful bundle There woula ''S gasp a iow-voiced exclamation a or tears, and another would ho ..l rom the list of unidentified da.d dNa \ placed in the known columns
 There was little sign or v,,, emotion though everywhere ina toa m ness of repression was apparent M ana women, boys and girls and ~. little ones, bereft in many casos o. their loved ones, though they sh. With sobs, made no outcry as tbev s held their dead. Some few broko a,s under the strain and vera c.rod by a corps of Red Cross nursos ,, toned in a squad room near tbo trance. But of the thousands vA through the day and night vis,tod .I armory, not more than a bund,. needed aid.
 All through the night load aftsr ,o. or bodies were received at the morr ana through the morning at less an less frequent intervals the process,o continued.
 While the victims were being ident,I lied, 50 undertakers and 40 embalme, Who had volunteered at the call of Corj oner Peter M. Hoffman, worked randl ly Tn space at the north end of ind nall, preparing the bodies for buria,
 Hearses Front the Armory.
 AS the morning wore along the Chr. t1ss street front of the armory became crowded with hearses and the incom. ing stream of bodies from the imuro. vised morgues and from the overturo ed vessel was passed by another line of bodies, identified, and in the keep ing of an undertaken.
 Before a body passed out the identI flcatlon was recorded by deputy CO, oner and the name of the nearest rea tive placed on file. So perfect hal been the preparatory work of the COT oner. that from noon until 1 o'clocl more than 100 bodies were taken ava, and few hours later less than 2O bodies remained in the temporar morgue
 Approximately 5000 persons, mos of them friends or relatives of tn victims, had gathered about the arn ory before noon. Two and thre abreast, the lines extended along tw sides of the armory square and block east in Randolph street Tw and three hundred at time they wer admitted and when all of one grou had passed out, another took it's plac Many of the bodies bore no signs ( struggle. Calm and still, their face | lay upturned, uncovered to aid in ide tification. Here and there, howeve was one with distorted limbs, with | bruised head or torso. Perhaps tl most pitiful of the many sad scene l were the bodies of the little ones, mel babies who were caught in the crow ed cabins of the overturned boat. Ft several hours two of these little ont lay with smiling, upturned faces ne' where the embalmers were busy. l nally the pitiful sight become tt much for the nerves of even tho most used to scenes of death, and Il tiny forms were carried to a more I mote part of the hall.
 "AlI Gone," Woman Murmurs.
 In the Red Cross room there we many scenes of sorrow. One womi well along in years kept repeatin All gone! Husband, son, his wife al their two children" Time after tlr she said this. but no tears fell and last she slowly left the place, St murmuring, "All gone"
 In the outgoing stream was one Il dertaker's litter containing husba1 wife and child. Identification W made by a friend.
 Several times through the day t nurses were obliged to quiet sol who became hysterical. Several Wo en tainted, some few screamed a one man, bowed with years, scream and struggled with those about Il when he saw the bodies of his VI and children.
 The men are the hardest to cont when they do give way" said the pl slclan in charge of the relief room.
 The scene was compared by co ners men and police officials who W messed both. to the Identification the bodies of the victims of the l quofs theater fire.
 There is less hysteria, less violf expression of grief here" said Jan