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Show CflH DEAD REACH QUEBEC ONLAOY GREY Nearly 200 Bodies Brought Ashore ; Scenes Heartrending Heartrend-ing While Relatives Begin Be-gin Identification. TWO FATHERS CLAIM BODY OF SAME BOY Mayor Decides Dispute; Unclaimed Un-claimed Bodies to Be Photographed Pho-tographed and Buried by the Canadian Public. By International News Service. QUEBEC. May 31. Canada's dead came home to her today. Floating in on an off tide early this morning the funeral thip, Lady Grey, swunp; into her erepe-dvvarfed wharf in Princess slip with 1SS of those who went down when the stately Empress of Ireland was rammed by a dingy little oollier off Father Point light Thursday Dight. "W"hile H. M. S. Essex with ensiijn and union .iafk at haTr mast stood by as if to guard the low-lying Lady Grey, files of sturdy bluejackets passed coffin after coffin ash'ore. Under a low, hastily-formed shed that served as a mortuary chapel, they laid them in low rows. Later, until nipbt fell, long lines of sad-faced men and women wom-en walked between, picking out a pitiful piti-ful few of the faces they knew. Only forty-right of the bodies had been identified when a halt was called tonight. Twelve more have been marked with a little brown paper tai;. but of the whole -jnri that the St. Lawrence Law-rence gave back, onlv sixty-nine have been surely identified and claimed. Heartrending Scenes. The scenes to which the dominion is remarkably strange were heartrending in the extreme. They cast a gloom over all 'Quebe,'. Nothing like it, unless un-less the landing of the Titanic victims, has ever, been known in a St. Lawrence Law-rence .port. It was almost entirely a C anadian disaster, and citi.eus arc -iinm-nir.f. as a nation for those on nbnin tne loss falls heaviest. Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters and even friends or acquaintances were in the groups that filed past, the grew some rows of open caskets to-lay. Maddened Mad-dened and crushed by tho awrulm'ss ot the disaster, most ot them were weeping, weep-ing, the tears streaming down, their fa.'.'s in svmpathy for the others as well as grief tor their own b.ss now and then, as thev rcognized in a still form one' who had left them, tliev fell on their knees ard prayed, thankful at least for the opportunity to show their respect by a bin ial service ou land. Claiming the Bodies. .Sometimes it was a husband", caM up bv some prank of fate while the mother of his .-bildren died, who found her under un-der the somber ar.-hes on the Pnnf,; lip. Or a mother, searching perhaps for father and children, or a broth r who found there the sister with whom he started to the old country a few davs ago. Twice it. was a father who found onlv one of tho three he had lost. Once. even, it was two fathers who claimed the body of th" same babe and then, after rpeer fnhion of old Quebec folk, it was the mavor and th" prirt who were called in to decide. Like the verdict of Solomon there was no iip-r.eal. iip-r.eal. and the father who won bore the little body away, wh'le the other said no more. Finds His Dead. On' of the most pstlite expert'ii'-es ! n tha of C W. ''num. a Montreal nir-eharit. nir-eharit. wl'tos- wife ati'l twr, ,-iii,)rrn were Inst 111 LIT- wreck'' l'iM!l "a s one of Hit' fnt on til K"ee., I'.Vfll Willie I ll :lllrx wc,-e .1,11 ciriyiiK their hupjein tie p;tce, rest1er,-iy back and forth, scanning each casket as soon n. It was la!' 'I"wn. In one of llie pitiful little pine boxes which the-' .ai'i-uo rjnwn the plank as a mother would rrv a child, he found one of the lost oii"H, Maud, a D-yeai-old fjauehter. . ,. tlealde the hod'- of Maud Cullen lav twelve more of those llnv forms, none over six '.-ears .'Id and soti'io scarce twelve loOUtll Cullen looked at them all and at h:l, "Itll " ' ry of Jov. he tound the other. 'That I mv boy." he said to thore ahout hlrn and went on. to earh for his wife. Dispute Over, Boy. Scarcely had lie t'irited awav wl,e(1 T. H. Aiche,- .,r sa. il-a t'hewa n, who alsc, lost a v. if" and ci.il, slopped suddenly heshle the aiue. (off, Ii. "Tlial's Alfred," be cre.p "Thats mv ho-" and he hinrle.1 to 11, . cornel', where Coroner .ML-or has c-.la.l.li.::,...! an "ft o -His astonishment when he toiin.l l.'ullcll had .Ifilmed the t.ov was pltirnl. I , moil Hell, re, lor of t. Mallievs, t.roiii.-ht the two men t..rrlher and Ih-v we,, c.ok tO View t 1 , ' 1 " " ' '' a. ill, Itllt alll.o.np, each '.as co, 1 1 1 o, c-. Iieitl,,.., u'Mlld '.'I'M I'llllcii l,ro,ii;hl hll- maid, leniile ll'.lhe. ','. 1 1 o '!; ot," oT l,e '-nr ",-.,., and "1"- I'M'l.ed him op Al'"h"r, ,,..,. , ,cr,,.d I" i i I M. I ' 1 1 ' h his . lain, and flnallv l vasailiecd thai I'anoo Sell and Mavor Napoleon Im.xiIii "I gnrl l,onld decide Tli"v t-a'.e the h.'dv I" r',,i,.n a nd he look II n a ' A r. her aflerwaid found 111" l""lv of Ills wile. 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