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Show Z In BUy Ji IsBXrVP ILr jf SJ I EL J Wireless From Mackay- Bennett Gives the Latest Details I New York, April 25. Two hundred and five bodies of the victims of the Titanic disaster have been picked up at seaby the cable steamer Mackay-Bonnettand Mackay-Bonnettand arc being taken to Halifax, Hali-fax, .N. S. The captain of tho Mack-ay-Bcnnett confirms the Identification of George D. "Widcner, son of P. A. 13 Wldener of Philadelphia, in a wireless wire-less dispatch to the White Star line and gives the further information that the majority of the bodies will never come to the surface. Steamer Drifting In a Fog. Captain Larder of tho Mackay-Bcn-nett sends word through the Cae Race wireiess station that the steam er iuit uiicu uijiuns "' " luti oiiii'i; noon yesterday He does not Indicate when he will reach Halifax Bodies are floating upon the sea many miles east and" west In latitude Al 3.1 north and longitude 4S.3C west, says the wireless. The folowlng dispatch was received today by tho White Star line through ' the Cape Raco station , Many Will Never Come to Surface" "Drifting In dense fog since noon yesterday. Total picked up 205. We biought away all embalming fluid to be had In Halifax, enough for seventy. With a week's flue weather I think we would pretty well clean up relics of disaster. It is my opinion majority will never come to surface." Another wireless dispatch from the Mackay-Beunett received today statoB: Vicinity Should Be Given Wide Berth. "Bodies are ln latitude 47 35 north, longitude 48.37 west, extending many miles easat and west. Mail ships should give this a wide berth Medical Medi-cal opinion is death was instantaneous instantane-ous in all cases owing to pressure when bodies were drawn into voitex." Tho fact that the Mackay-Bcnnett has been able to communicate by wire-lees wire-lees with tho Cape Race station shows that she Is laying her course toward Halifax, as she was without tho zone of the Cape Race station for several days and wns only able to get in touch with the land through other steamers relayin-licr mpsRascs. First Names Confirmed. The wireless list of Identified dead was received in response to a request by tho company which desired to check ofr the names contained in the first list sent Monday. Today's list confirms all named In the first wiro-less wiro-less with one exception. In the first message there appeared tho namo "Nlhilschedig Rbatt" In the check off list this name Is separated into "Nahll Schedig' and L Butt After examination of all the passenger passen-ger lists, the officials hae been able to find only one "Butt' that being Archibald W Butt, President Tatt s aide. There also is a W Butt mentioned men-tioned In the wireless, but it says this refers to a member of tho crew. Of the 205 bodies recovered and now being be-ing brought to Halifax, only 43 have been Identified, leaving 162 unidentified unidenti-fied dead on board. |