Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-03-10
day OF MOURNING
At COLL|hW00D
FIRST OF FUNERALS OF DEAD
SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE
HELD.
ALL BUT 20 BODIES
HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED
Legislature Passes Bill ApproprIatins
$4,000 for the Victims of the Ter.
rlbIs Dlsaster-Rody Of One Of the
Teachers Identified.

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Miss Katherine Weller, one of the two
teachers who lost their lives in the
Collinwood school fire, was positively
identified Friday by dentist. The
body had been SO terribly burned
that it could hardly be distinguished
from the bodies of the smaller girls
The identification was established by
her gold-nlled teeth upon description
furnished by Pittsburg dentist,
The body Of Rosetta Machnich, a
former pupil in the school, was identi-
fed also Friday, by her shoes. When
Mrs. Machnich was positive of the
Identification she fell, fainting, upon
the charred body of her little one.
There are still % bodies unidenti-
ned.
Total Dead is7.
So far 1877 bodies have been recov,
cred. The list Of missing now TALES
with the number Of unidentified,
which would indicate that all of the
bodies have been = found and that
the total death list will stand at 1877.
In fully ace cases the funerals will
be individual, each family burying its
own dead. The first of these funerals
was held Friday morning. They will
continue throughout the day. In some
instances funeral services We're
grouped, with FIVE to ten bodies in
one church.
To Bury Unidentified Dead.
The unidentified will be buried next
Monday, according to present ar
rangements. The expense of these
funerals, together with the funerals Of
children whose parents are not in a
financial condition to meet the bur-
den, will be borne by public subscrip-
lions, which are growing larger every
hour. Already thousands Of dollars
have been raised. In addition to this,
p bill has been introduced in the
state legislature appropriating $685.
600 for the relief of the needy fire
sufferers. This bill, it is expected,
will become law Friday.
Message Of Coincidence.
Berlin, Mar. 7.-Chancellor Won
Buelow has sent the following cable
message to Baron Speck Won Stern
burg, the German ambassador al
Washington:
Express to the mayor of Cleveland
my sincerest sympathy in connection
with the school catastrophe"
He also has sent request to the
German consul for Ohio to learn
whether children of any German sub
jects were among the victims.
School Fire at New York,
New York.. Mar. while a fire
ragged on thes fourth floor of the five
story public school building in One
Hundred and Ninth street, between
Amsterdam avenue and Broadway
Friday. 1000 pupils marched from the
building singing America" under the
leadership of their teachers. The
children were engaged in their morn
Ing singing exercises when the Are
gong rang, and they continued to sing
as they marched out of the building
There was no sign of panic at any
time, and few minutes after the first
alarm was sounded all the children
were assembled in the school yard
| waiting for the word of dismissal
which would permit them to go home
Fortunately all the smaller children
were in rooms on the lower floors OF
the building and many of them did not
know Of the fire when they were
called upon to march out by the regu.
lar fire drill. The fire was quickly ex
tinguished after causing damage to the
extent Of about 5000 in the room in
which 1t started.