Show CARRIES GRUESOME CARGO Transport Hancock With 1500 Bodies Arrives at San Francisco San Francisco Dec 10The transport trans-port Hancock arrived this afternoon from Manila via Nagasaki with a gruesome cargo It consists of the bodies of about 1500 soldiers and sailors who either died in battle or succumbed to the ravages of disease In the Philippines China Guam and Honolulu This is the largest number of bodies brought home since the outbreak out-break of the SpanishAmerican war The Hancock will likely remain In quarantine a few days The bodies will be taken to the Presidio and placed In buildings there pending Interment or shipment to the homes of the relatives The Hancock was twentyfive days in making the run from Manila and was seventeen days in coming from Nagasaki the last port at which she touched She brought fiftytwo cabin passengers and there were eleven deaths on the voyage to add to the cargo car-go of dead from the Philippines |