The Dermott news. (Dermott, Ark.) 1910-1977, 1915-07-29
AND RELATIVES SEARCHING
FOR LOVED ONES.
LITTLE VIOLENT EMOTIONS
Some Few Broke Down Under StralEs
and Were Cared For BY Corps
of Red Cross Nurses.


and engulfed a thousand homes With.
grief. found most poignant expression.
IN the presence of the silent forms.
of the victims laid out in the drill
ball of the Second Regiment Armory,
Chieago's temporary morgue.
Side by side lay the dead. Among
them walked anxious hundreds seek
ing to identity a loved one and hop
Ing they might not succeed Time
and again group would pause beside
pitiful bundle. There would be n
gasp, lowvoiced exclamation. a flow
OF tears. and another would be taker
from the list OF unidentified dead and
placed in the known columns
There was little sign of violent
emotion though everywhere the tense
ress of repression was apparent. Mer
and women. boys and girls. and even
little ones, bereft in many cases OF all
their loved ones, though they shook
with sobs. made no cutlery as they be-
held their dead Some few broke down.
under the strain and were cared for
by corps of Red Cross nurses sta
toned in squad room near the en-
trance But OF the thousands who,
Wv u''s All" "iSht visited inc
armory, not more than hundred
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All through the night load after load
oil bodies were received at the morgus
ana through the morning at less and
'F.cH' intervals the PROCESSION
"hlie the victims were being identi-
ned % nndertakers and 40 embalmetY
VINO mad volunteered ut the call Of Cor
oher Peter NJ. Hoffman. worked rapid
y III space ut the north end OF the,
Aaa. preparing the bodies for burial.
Hcarses Front the armorv.
Is the r,,nrria. v.rr,. .,l.,,.s. ~, Gu,
ffss street front ~ ~, ,,.,.,...,. ,.,,.,...
crowded win b.,r-... MI H.. ,,oo.,,
ing stream ef bodies rras. .i+e al
yised tnorgnes# and from, H. oyor,v.
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morrua
Of Them rriords o- r.Ia,i,.a. -, ~
vieti.ns. had gathered about the arm.
CRY before noon. Two and tbreo
abreast the lines extended along two.
sides OF the armory sou,ro and
block east In Randolph street Two.
and three hundred M n time thev wore.
admitted and when all of one eroup.
had passed out. another took its n,oco
Many Of the bodies bore no signs of.
struggle. Calm and still. their faces,
lay upturned. uncovered to aid in iden.
tihcation Here and there. however.
was one with distorted limbs. with n
bruised mead or torso Perhaps tho
most piutni or the many sad scenes
wore the bodies OF the little ones mere,
hao'es VINO We're caught In tho crowd.S
20 CABINS OF the overturned boat For
seVerai hours TWO or these little ones
lay win snilihg, upturned faces near,
"htre 'no eihoaiihers were busy. FL
haliN the pitiful sight become toe.
"ach 'or 'he nerves or even those
must "Seu 10 scenes OF death and the
my '"'''S N're carried 10 more re-
SUI part oi the nan
"All Gone" Woman Murmurs
In the Red Cross room there wore
many scenes OF sorrow One woman,
we'll along in years kept repeating
All goue' Husband. son. his wife and
their two children" Time after tims.
she said this hut no tears fell and AT
last she slowly loft the place, sttll,
murmuriug. "All gone"