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The Ludington Daily News
Wednesday, November 13, 1940
pp. 1 & 8

                  TOTAL OF 12 BODIES HELD IN LUDINGTON
                  
                    White-Shrouded Figures Are Mute
                       Evidence of Fury of Storm.
                       
              Twelve bodies, shrouded in white sheets, mute
            evidence of the fury of Monday night's gale, were
            lined up in a temporary morgue set up Tuesday
            evening in Salvation Army headquarters at 108
            South Rath avenue.
              It was expected other bodies would be recovered
            momentarily, following reports that others had
            been sighted at various points along the Lake
            Michigan beach.
              In addition to the 12 recovered at Ludington,
            four others were found south of Pentwater late
            Tuesday and taken to Pentwater.
              It makes a total of 16 to date, out of the 60
            lives believed lost in Lake Michigan in this 
            region Monday night.
            
                             Recovered Here
              The twelve bodies recovered at intervals here
            Tuesday afternoon were taken first to Dorrell
            Funeral home, where men worked most of the night.
            Three firms, the Dorrell Funeral home and Morrison
            Funeral home of Ludington and the Stephens Funeral
            home of Scottville, co-operated in taking care of
            the remains and assisting in identification work.
              Later the bodies were taken to a temporary 
            morgue in the Salvation Army building, until
            arrangements can be made, for transfer to their
            homes.
              Eleven of the bodies, it was determined here
            this morning, were members of the deck crew
            of the Steamer WILLIAM B. DAVOCK. The twelfth,
            a youth of 18 or 19, was believed a member of
            the crew of the Canadian vessel, ANNA C. MINCH.
              Roy Meyer of Cleveland, O., representatives
            of the Interlakes Steamship Co., Cleveland,
            reached Ludington this morning with two 
            assistants to indentify crew members of the
            DAVOCK and make burial arrangements. The 
            DAVOCK was owned and operated by the Cleveland
            firm.
                       
                            Plan Burial
              Mr. Dorrell said this noon burial arrangements
            for the 11 men, and any others of the DAVOCK's
            crew who may be recovered later, have been made.
            He said the Sarnia Steamships, Ltd., Sarnia, Ont.,
            operator of the MINCH, would be notified this
            afternoon to send representatives to indentify,
            if possible, the remaining body.
              Nelson Sharrow of Marine City, Mich., brother
            of one of the men lost on the DAVOCK, reached
            here early today. Body of his brother, member of
            the after crew of the DAVOCK, has not been re-
            covered to date.
              Sailors and coast guardsmen considered it
            likely that bodies of the deck crew only will
            be recovered, at least in the near future.
              After crew, they pointed out, would have
            been on duty inside the ship, probably finding
            it impossible to escape when the ship foundered.
            Officials pointed to the significant fact that
            all bodies of the DAVOCK recovered to date have
            been identified as members of the deck or for-
            ward crew.
            
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