THE DEAD.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14985, 4 June 1914, Page 9

THE DEAD.

DIFnCULTII-S OF IDENTIFICA-~, ' TION. T.iere~is great difficulty in identifying victims owing to the mutilated state of the bodies. It is apparent that many wero killed instantly owing to striking .wreckage or being crushed by the Stor.tad's impart. •

Some doubt still exists as to whether tho body of Mr Laurence Irving has been • found. Identification was made by means of a ring with his initials, but other passengers with tho same initials were also lost.

Tho identification of Mrs Price, of New Zealand, was made after about sixteen members of tbo crew had claimed the body as that ono of one of tho stewardesses.

The Mayor had to decide tho claim of two fathers to the parentage of a child who waa killed on tho Empress of Ireland.

The Mayor compared the features of the child with those of tho claimant fathers and also of the dead mother, and gave tho little coffin and its contents to. tho Toronto claimant.

LONDON, June 2.

The newspapers are giving prominence to a controversy on the question whether tho Empress of Ireland was moving ahead, as.tbo captain of the Storetad aye i, orwbetiier she v*?s at a standstill, as Captain Kendall assorts. .