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Show NO BODIES WILL 1 BE RECOVERED Men Who Went Down in S Liner Monroe Swept Out & to Sea. S Washington,' March 13. All the & bodies which sunk with the Old Do- M minion liner Monroe, when she was Si rammed by the Nantucket off the jjR Virginia coast on January 30, have b been swept out of the wreck by a K strong submarine current mi Divers, having nearly 200 addition- H al pounds of lead on their equipment. V found It impossible to remain ou 1 j their feet in the fierce current which a j sweeps about the wreckage. Forty- I j three lives were lost in tho collision. M i How many of those went down im- M i prisoned in the ship is not known, Mr but there was hope of recovering W ! some bodies. jfl Divers also found that lifeboat No. Mr 1, which some witnesses at the gov- Wj ommcnt's investigation testified wa3 Wc smashed in the collision, had been Mil cut loose as one witness testified. "jHi The cargo may be recovered. ,ms |