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Show TITANIC VICTIMS FOUGHT FOR LIFE MANY DIED HOURS AFTER THE TRAGEDY FROM EXPOSURE, ACCORDING TO REPORT. Physicians on Cable Ship Minia, Which Picked up Seventeen Bodies, Declare That All But One Had Perished From Exposure. Halifax, N. S. Only one of the seventeen sev-enteen persons whose bodies were recovered re-covered by the cable ship Minia Vn the vicinity of the Titanic tragedy died from drowning, in the opinion of the cable ship's physician. The other sixteen perished from exposure, ex-posure, death ensuing some hours after af-ter the vessel sank. This was demonstrated dem-onstrated by examination of the bodies, bod-ies, water being found in the lungs of put one person. This statement is made on authority of the Rev. H. W. Cunningham, rector of St. George's church, who accompanied the Minia on her quest T ' T'CP- Of ihe seventeen bodies recovered, fifteen were 'brought to port, the other two, the bodies of unidentified firemen, being buried at sea. The bodies preserved were those of Charles M. Hays, president of the Grand Trunk railway; Joseph Fynney of J. Fynney & Co., rubber merchants mer-chants of Liverpool, who was a second sec-ond class passenger; three third class passengers and ten members of the crew. |