Show bennington dead will be shipped home san diego cal july 28 at st pauls episcopal church at 1030 10 30 this morning was held tho funeral of ensign newman K perry the only officer who lost life in the disaster on the gunboat bennington rev J A M richey was la charge assisted by bishop J H johnson of los angeles and chaplain stone of the flagship chicago commander young and officers and men of the banning ton officers and men from tho chicago active and retired army officers councilmen heads of city departments companies of the military order of loyal legion officers from fort rosecrans officers ot the naval reserves local federal officers and officers and members of tho chamber ot commerce were present the general public was not admitted owing to the limited capacity of the church the remains will be taken to stockbridge mass for interment after leaving here tomorrow the bodies of the bennington boya who are buried in the military cemetery at point loma are not to remain where they were laid with ceremonies now that they are at rest the officials hava discovered that after theSIa ine disaster congress enacted a law providing for the transmission of bodies of dead sailors to their homes after the explosion tho undertakers telegraphed to the nearest relatives of the dead men for instructions regarding the disposition 0 the remains in many cases answers were made that the bodies should bo shipped at the governments expense accordingly the bodies of the forty nine boys were interred embalmer embalmed ed in the little burial ground on the hill now paymaster morris Is telegraphing to relatives that upon request the bodies will be disinterred and sent homo at the expense of the government so far such request has come for two of the bodies and it is likely that a ma of them will be exhumed and sent away among the bodies to b buried those of the following have just been sent away C L bums to chicago andrew kamerer to ohio joseph to quincy mass ehll dresch to newark N J cuve V brockton to des monies iowa william fickweiler Fic kweller to la porte ind john 0 barchus to clarinda iowa charles 0 mckenns McKe ons remains will be forwarded to fenton mich this the condition of the injured at the private hospitals shows little change except that C schultz has recovered sufficiently to be removed to the barracks hospital and W A holley Is improving A J worthen Is holding his own D sullivan has a fighting chance and D R mcclintock and harvey C dean are doing well P nieman G H hallott F G muller and L A greise are classed as most seriously ill at skin grafting will have to be performed on fifteen of the wounded men |