Millard County Chronicle | 1912-05-09 | Page 4 | Titanic Victims Fought for Life

Titanic victims fought for life MANY DIED HOURS AFTER THE TRAGEDY FROM EXPOSURE, ACCORDING TO REPORT. hyiin on Cable Ship Minla, Which Picked up Seventeen Bodies, Declare That All But One Had Perished From Exposure. Halifax, N. K Only one of the seventeen sev-enteen persona whose bodle were recovered re-covered by the cable hlp Minla In the vicinity of the Titanic tragedy died from drowning, In the opinion of the cable ship' physician. The other alxteen perished from exposure, ex-posure, death ensuing some hours after af-ter the vessel sank. Thl was demonstrated dem-onstrated by examination of the bodies, bod-ies, water being fouud In the lung of but one person. Thl statement la made on authority of the Rev. H. W. Cunningham, lector of St. George' church, who accompanied the Minla on her guest. Of the seventeen bodies recovered, j fifteen were brought to port, the i other two, the bodies of unidentified I firemen, being burled at sen. 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 (lass passengers and ten members of the crew.