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                  Town Buries
                  12  Sailors
                 of Lost Ship
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          Rogers City, Mich., (AP) - Sorrow
         prevailed yesterday in this Lake
         Huron seafaring town of 3,873 as
         it buried 12 of its 25 sailors who
         died in the sinking of the giant
         Great Lakes freighter Carl D.
         Bradley in a Lake Michigan storm
         Tuesday.
          In all, the Bradley took 33 down
         with her. There were only two
         survivors, First Mate Elmer
         Fleming and Deckman Frank
         Mays, both of Rogers City. Thus
         far only 18 bodies have been re-
         covered.
          A single funeral for nine Cath-
         olics was held in St. Ignatius
         Church.  Services for two Prot-
         testants were held in St. John's
         Lutheran Church.  Rites for a
         12th seaman were conducted from
         a funeral home.
          Among the 750 crowded into the
         small Roman Catholic Church
         were some 30 children left father-
         less by the Lake Michigan disas-
         ter, worst on the Great Lakes in
         18 years.  The followed caskets
         of the fathers to Calvary Cem-
         etery on a hillside five miles south
         of Rogers City.
          End to end the caskets stretched
         the length of the little church's
         single aisle.
          As last rites approached the
         bodies of the dead were removed
         from the Rogers City High School
         gymnasium  where they had laid
         in state Friday, when some 6,000
         mourners filed by.
          Snow flurries came down now
         and then from grayish winter
         skies.  All Rogers City stores
         and businesses were closed and most
         homes were empty for the fu-
         nerals.
            "The Sunday Press", Binghamton, N.Y., 
             November 23, 1958.

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