The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-10
Queenstown Crowds Uncover
Before Solemn COrtege.
Bodies of Notable Americans in
Cheap Collins.
DENOUNCE L|FEBOAT FIASCO
Affidavits of Three Survivors
Taken for United States.
Three Huge Graves Dug for
Unidentified Victims.

Queenstown, May 1o.-Afidavits
made by Miss Jessie Taft smith OF
Braceville, Ohio; DR.. Howard L. Fish
err. Major Warren Pearl and Robert
Rankin of New York are the only per-
manent records of the Lusitania disas-
ter obtained by the United States con-
sulate here.
All are brief and none reflects seri-
ously upon behavior of the Lus1tanla
crew, except what some witnesses con-
slider the lifeboat fiasco.
The affidavits of Miss Smith and Mr..
Rankin were cabled tonight to Sec
rotary of State Bryan. while those OF
| Major Pearl and DR.. Fisher were sent
to Ambassador Page at London.
Beginning at noon today, at Consul
Frost's orders, the bodies of the iden-
titled Americans covered with the
| stars and stripes, were removed from
scattered morgues and placed side by
water front. AS they were carried
through the streets by British sailors,
the crowds uncovered
Bodies in Cheap Collins.
Cheap collins contained the bodies of
Charles Frohman, Isaac F. Trumbull
of Bridgeport, Conn; Mrs. Henry ID.
MACEDONIA OF New York; Charles II.
Stevens of Atlantic City; DR.. F. S:
Pearson of New York; d. Walker of
New York, DR.. Pearson's secretary;
Mrs. Mcbride; Hugh Compton; c. L.
Frederick of Boston; Herbert Ellis OF
New York, and Mrs. Spillman of De-
troit.
Mr. Frohman's secretary arrived to-
body.
One of the survivors, identified the
body of Mrs. r. d. Shymer of New
York the American widow of an
English nobIeman who subsequently
married an American and had been
living in New York. She was on her
way to London and her name probably
will be added. to the list of American
dead Her body will be sent back to
the United States, as well as those of
the others, some of them starting to-
night.
Vast Graves for Unknown.
A whole company of British soldiers
today completed the digging of three
huge graves, each thirty by twenty
feet, in which the one hundred and
forty odd unidentified dead will be
buried.
The moving of bodies up the hill to
the cemetery will begin at $3.50 a. m.
and continue until 1880 p. m.
Then, as the last ten or a dozen
the number to be determined by the
hearses Embellishments to the GEM
etery, the funeral procession will form
and march to the graves. Mounted
police, soldiers and civilians will par
ticipate. There will be a joint service,
clergymen of all creeds joining in say
ing prayers.
Many children and little babies still
lie in the morgues like many dolls
Inc tOWnSpeOpIe covered tnem with
flowers and it is probable these little
ones will be placed in a grave together
Some on clutches, many limping
and nearly all bruised, the survivors
left their hotels in silent groups.
There were some Americans and many
Canadians and English.
The presence of so many children on
the Lusitania was due to the fact that
women were going to England to join
relatives while their husbands were at
the front.
today from the spot where the Lusi-
tania disappeared. but some bodies
may yet be found if a storm does not
scatter them. There will not be so
great a number picked up, however, as
was the case in the North Atlantic
after the Titanic disaster, for that YES
sci remained afloat so long all on deck
had ample time carefully to adjust
lifebelts.