The body of Captain Carranza was transported from the crash site to the morgue of K. Perenchieff in Mount Holly, NJ by Detective Carabine, who conducted the preliminary investigation of the crash site. Shortly thereafter, a group of Army Officers from the Seventy Seventh Division stationed Campt Dix went to Mount Holly, and with members of the Mount Holly American Legion Post, placed an American flag on the coffin and stood watch pending arrival of officials from New York and Washington.

Later in the evening of July 13th, representatives from Mexican Consulate in New York arrived in Mount Holly. Mr. H. E. Rodriguez, Secretary of the Financial Agency of the Mexican Government formally identified the body. He was accompanied by J. Lopez and F. Gonzales of the Mexican Consulate in New York City. On Saturday July 14th at 6:20 am, two automobiles accompanied the motor hearse, one with the representatievs of the Mexican Embassy, and the other with an escort of State troopers. Four motorclycle policemen escorted the cortege through Newark and as far as the New Jersey entrance to the Holland tunnel.

At the tunnel, a detail of tunnel police conducted the cars through the tube. The cortege reached the Manhattan end of the tunnel and halted at the plaza at 9:11 am pending arrival of Manhattan police escorts. Apparently no arrangements had been made with Manhattan police so no police escorts showed up. After a short delay, the cortege proceeded to the Campbell mortuary at Sixty-sixth Street and Broadway. Hardly had the coffin entered the doors before the first of many floral tributes arrived.

Under orders from General Ely, Captain Keith B. Wise of the Eighteenth Infantry relieved Lieutenant Mee as honor guard. Shortly thereafter, two representatives of Mexican President Calles arrived at the funeral home, they were the Military Attaché Col. Samuel C. Rojas and his assistant Captain Beristain. They joined Captain Wise in the honor guard at the coffin.

President Coolidge, in a message to President Calles in Mexico City, expressed the grief of the American Nation over the death of Captain Carranza and offered the battleship USS Florida as a funeral ship to carry the remains back to Mexico via Veracruz. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur ordered the USS Florida to hold itself in readiness for the detail. The battleships Florida, Arkansas and Utah were steaming home from southern waters after completing the annual Summer cruise with Naval Academy midshipmen. The Mexican Govenment declined the offer of a battleship and instead requested the coffin be transported via rail (Missouri Pacific Train No. 382) to Laredo, TX where a Mexican Military Mission would then transport the remains to Mexico City.

Captain Carranza's remains were made available for viewing at 7 pm on Saturday July 14th, after extensive reconstruction by five plastic surgeons. The terrible effects of the accident were plainly visible to those who passed the glass panel of the coffin. The coffin was draped in the flags of Mexico and the United States. A spontaneous tribute to Captain Carranza was paid by the 104th Field Artillery which had its armory at Broadway and Sixty-seventh Street. The regimental band paraded slowly by the funeral parlors playing a dirge. Shortly thereafter the entire regiment of about 700, on its way to camp, marched to the front of the funeral church, came into line, and stood at attention. Colonel John J. Managan took post in front of the regiment while the band played "Nearer My God to Thee". Later the regiment marched away while the band played Chopin's Funeral March.

On Wednesday July 18th, nearly 200,000 people stood in silence along the route of the procession along Broadway, Times Square, and Seventh Avenue to Pennsylvania Station. The funeral procession consisted of 10,000 soldiers and sailors. Officers wore black bows on their swords. Captain Carranza's bronze coffin was carried on a black caisson drawn by six black horses. Directly behind th caisson was a riderless horse, a military symbol of a comrade passed on. A specially chosen tall, black charger was draped with a black mantle. A Corporal from Governor's Island led the chrarger. Showing through a slit in the mantle was a sabre with a black bow tied at the guard. A pair of black stirrups were suspended from the empty saddle, and in military tradition a pair of boots were placed facing backward on the stirrups. Overhead, an escort of twenty-one airplanes from Mitchel Field and Miller Field followed the procession to Pennsylvania Avenue where they circled during the firing of the last volleys and the sounding of taps. Major General Hanson E. Ely, Commander of the Second Corps Area, and his staff represented the Army in the funeral cortege. Rear Admiral Louis R. de Stigeur, Commander of the New York Navy Yard, represented the Navy. General Otho Rosenbaum, Commander of the First Brigade, First Division, was in charge of the cortege.

A special Pennsylvania train consisting of three Pullmans, an observation car, and a diner waited on Track # 3. The special train pulled out shortly before 5 pm on its way to Laredo, TX. Along the route, in every city and town through which it passed it drew a sorrowful tribute. Near Trenton, close to the crash site, the train slowed as a crowd lined the tracks and the 112th Field Artillery, National Guard, fired a Major General's salute. The special train arrived in Laredo at 8 am on July 21st. In Laredo, Captain Carranza's coffin was transferred to another caisson, and with full military honors by soldiers from Fort McInosh escorted to the middle of the international bridge where it was delivered to his countrymen.

At noon on July 24th, 1928 Captain Emilio Carranza was laid to rest in a special Rotunda in the Dolores Cementery of Mexico City.