200 BODIES REMAIN IN WRECK OF SHIP.
FUNERAL WILL RESEMBLE THAT AFTER A BATTLE.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received June 17, 11.30 a.m.) NANTES, June 16. Mass and a funeral such as might follow a battle will draw a pall over the St Philbert disaster, in which the death roll is tenfold that of the RlOl disaster.
The burial service will be held in the cathedral on June 19, if enough bodies are then identified.
The bodies of four women were cast up to-day, but the remains of many of the victims may never be interred, because two hundred bodies are still within the wreck.
Salvage apparatus is coming from Brest, and divers will explore the possibilities of raising the ship and thus removing a menace to navigation as well as recovering the corpses. With six exceptions the victims could be identified only by their clothing and personal ornaments. As indicating the sweeping nature of the catastrophe, every occupant of one three-storey apartment perished except the caretaker, who did not participate in the excursion.
The Government is drafting legislation to give immediate relief to the dependents of the victims. A message from St Nazaire states that the body of Captain Ollive has been washed ashore.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 142, 17 June 1931, Page 1
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