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Show RITES FOR WRECK VICTIMS. Seventy-six Salvation Army Members Mem-bers Given Military Funeral. Toronto. Seventy-six Salvatioi Army victims of the foundering ol the Empress of, Ireland were buriec at Mount Pleasant cemetery here Saturday in the presence of Commis sioner McKie, representing the army's supreme chief, General Booth, and ? large assembly'of army people. Bands from all parts of Ontario massed in the arena, where the funeral services were held, playing a funeral march together, as an impressive part of the ceremony. Commissioner McKie paid the last tribute to his comrades. In the procession from the arena to the cemetery were color sergeants bearing flags, followed by a section of massed bands, the caskets containing contain-ing the bodies, the mourners following follow-ing them, another section of bands and a group of survivors of the disaster. dis-aster. Field officers, men and women soldiers, interspersed with bands came next. Friends and delegations from other organizations closed the long procession. |