Show ga ES up SOME af 1 CABLE SHIP REACHES HALIFAX WITH BODIES P PICKED UP NEAR scene SCENE OF DISA DISASTER S TER bodies 6 of colonel astor asap r loader isador straus and fra frank D millet among T those hose clanked by friends many bodies consigned to sea Hali halifax fak the cable ship mackay bennett reached here tuesday with the bodies she had ale picked lied up tip af after ter searching the oceanna ocean in the vicinity of 0 the titanic disaster the arrival of the mackay denn bennett att 0 first cast gloom over the city by her more presence as a funeral ship then sent a shock through those waiting here for bodies with the announcement of her commander that fifty seven of those reported by wireless as identified of necessity had been cast again into the sea yet none expressed any ank criticism of captain Lard ners action bell believing ev him sincere in his explanation that lack of space aboard shortage of embalming material and mutilation of bodle bodies s was responsible for his course that the booles bodies of prominent persons were not kept aboard to the exclusion of bf the more humble is indic indicated abed by the white star lines announcement no that among those bodies sunk again was that of george D widener the philadelphia capitalist although this appears to be a mistake in that mr wideners wideness Wid eners son now here believes from captain Lar duers description scrip tion t that hat the body was that of his fathers valet the name widener elands online official of bf reburied buried re as issued by the white star line Nicholas Nicholasj Biddle of philadelphia who accompanied vincent astor here in a private car identified the colonels body and it ii was aps the first pre prepared for removal 7 to d new york iscol in colonel onel As tors s pockets 2 2500 1500 cash was found when his body was picked u up P the body of isador straus was turned over to maurice rothschild of new york and the bodies of frank D millet the artist A H J T allison of montreal Toft treal and many others were given in charge of friends T there here a are re only five bodies of women among the unidentified As ope one of them appears to be that of a swedish woman and the other four those of ltd italians flans there is little hope of recovering cov cring the body of mrs airs isador straus f the ane mackay bennett consigned bodies to the sea and landed the bodies of fourteen women were found by the mackay bennett the body of one baby girl of two years was found revised tabulations show that in all bodies out of the 1600 lost bost have bee wre covered of this number the minla minia which is still raking 0 the waves off the grand banks banha has only rounded up as 1 according to her latest reports and the mackay bonnett bennett secured a total of captain lardner explained that he was forced to bury many at sea because his ship became overcrowded A with bodies he said he feared the bodies last more mor ethan than three days and they came so rapidly during the early stages of the expedition that he was obliged to dl dispose spose of those most disfigured and mutilated |