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Show BODIES OF VICTIMS PILED IN TIERS WORK OF IDENTIFICATION PROCEEDS PRO-CEEDS SLOWLY, DEAD BEING CROWDED IN PIER SHED. Side by Side With Forms of Grimy Stokers, Silk-Clad Women With Ears and Fingers Bearing Costly Gems are Stark and Stiff. Rimouski, Quebec Piled in tiers in two crowded pier sheds, 300 dead, un coffined bodies lie unidentified here, grim evidence of the Empress of Ireland Ire-land disaster. The work of identification identifi-cation is slow and exceedingly difficult, diffi-cult, the bodies are piled so close together, to-gether, and not more than twelve have been claimed. Side .by side with the bent forms of grimy stokers, silk-clad women with ears and fingers bearing costly gems are stretched, stark and stiff. Little children are reposing peacefully as if asleep, while the faces of scores of men and women are distorted with expressions, ex-pressions, of the horror and fear that held them as they were plunged to their deaths. Pent in the river hull of the lost steamer, or floating down the icy St. Lawrence must be two bodies for every one resting here. Dozens of the recovered victims are entirely unclad, while the majority are clothed in the 'few scant garments in which they slept when the alarm rang out. There are not enough shrowds available- and by far the greater number of the bodies lie as they were picked out of the water. The identifications thus far made came in a rough way, sometimes by jewels worn by the victims and sometimes some-times by papers found in sea-soaked wallets. Around one man's neck was a little purse containing a number of pulpy money order receipts. The money had gone to his mother in a far-off village of central Russia. He was on his way to visit her when the accident happened. |