At one hospital where the injured were being treated, waiting relatives crowded round to look as police held up photographs of unidentified bodies.
If a train is running late, he said, it could be something like giving out a phone card so the passenger can call ahead, at Amtrak's expense, to tell waiting relatives of the delay.
You can call or text any friends or waiting relatives till the other passengers arrive and the train finally departs.
Journalists for The New York Times saw the bodies in the Forensic Hospital in the capital, where doctors were waiting for relatives to claim them.
So far, neither the Police Department nor the medical examiner's office has been able to verify the identify of Mr. Shen, a native of Shanghai, because they are waiting for relatives of his from China to arrive here and make a positive identification.
Walking out of the airport, my girlfriend and I were bathed in klieg-like lights shining down on what appeared to be an endless sea of people crowded behind a police barrier — families waiting for relatives; drivers searching for passengers; vendors and beggars, policemen and businessmen; and every other form of Mumbaikar humanity.
But thousands of Chechens are still waiting for relatives who disappeared in the war to return - their hopes boosted by traditional beliefs about life and death.
At least 25% of the children admitted at the tertiary hospital were still in the ward waiting for relatives to be able to pay user fee bills on average 4 days after being medically discharged at a cost of US$17.46 to the provider and a charge of US $5.322 to the household per each extra day spent in hospital.
So the mother went to ICE and requested that she and her daughter be released into the community, where they could wait in relative normality for their asylum petition to be processed.
That's the most pertinent lesson of the Great Depression: people waited, with relative patience, for years for some government response before anyone looted a grocery store or fought off police officers who were evicting families.
