Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-04-21 | Page 64 | Lusitania's Dead Are Now Well Gared For

lUSITANIA'S DEAD ARE NO NOW WELL I 1 CARED FOR Cunard Company Provides for Protection of Trench Graves QUEE STO April Workmen 20 Workmen hav have Just finished d a months month's task lask of or tidying up un the cemetery here whore where 11 Hi of oC the dead are burled The They have hav converted the thc three mounds of ot earth carth I which mark marJ the trench graves of or the victims into the neatest and best kept part of ot the village vil- vil 11 cliffs lage burying Pr ground und at the top of or the theA I A neat sign placed over the largest larlest I of or the three trench graves informs vie vis I Hors that the improvement was made at the direction of the Cunard Steamship Steam Steam- ship company and that the company has engaged a Cork k firm of or gardeners I permanently to keep the grass rass and I trees es trimmed anI a the flowers low rs watered The failure of ot the town council to care arc for tor the graves made It necessary for the Cunard company to do so o. o I After the tho war It is proposed to build a monument on the site This Is to bo be done by the I steamship In company co cooperation cooperation co- co operation with th the British Iov government and a plot of ground has been reserved I for this purpose There are arc thre e trenches the largest of or which contain seventy bodies the second fifty and ami the third twenty sev en The plot for tor the memorial i is between be be- be I tween wean the 1 and third trenches A few gravestones sent by relatives relatives rela rela- tives of the victims now no form the on only 1 memorials to be found about the spot The Tho graves are seldom visited b by the villagers They 19 say a the they shun them because they recall tho the terrible scones enacted nearl nearly three years cars a ago o. o The town hall In Queenstown which was used as a morgie for the victims was for two years ears afterward deserted b by the villagers who had for generations before used it a an as a market place It was said to b be haunted and no good s luck was expected from any transaction tion completed there I