Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-07
ONE CHILD DIED TODAY
Body of a Man Found in the
Ruins.
PROBABLY WAS A RESCUER
Testimony at the Inquest Yesterday
Followed by Preventive Action
in Other Schools.

CLEVELAND, March 1.-The last of
the little victims of the Collinwood School
fire to perish was Glen Barber, aged eight
years. He died early today at a hospital
from injuries sustained in his leap from
the second STORY window of the school
building.
In casting up the total of pupils who
were at school the day of the fire. it de-
part of the ashes that lie in the cellar Of
the burned school,
Supt Frank Whitney of the village
schools of Collinwood has completed a
ousetO-house canvass of the Lakeview
school district and finds that 174 are dead
or missing. including the two teachers.
Only 167 bodies have been taken out of
the ruins. Twenty-one of these still are
unidentified.
Mans Body Found.
1t has been discovered that the body
identified yesterday as hat of Miss kath-
|erine Weller the teacher, is that Of a man,
John krajnyak twenty-eight years of age.
who was one of the first of the rescuers
on the scene, has been missing since the
fire.
1t is thought that the body may be his.
1t now is believed that the body of Miss
Weller is completely lost.
At o'clock the first of today's funerals
was held. At st. Mary's Catholic Church
there were services over the remains OF
| sixteen bodies. At ST. Joseph's Catholic
Church mass was said over twelve other
bodies Throughout today there also Were
over forty individual funerals.
Inquest Testimony.
Testimony describing the mad rush tC
| death of the school children was giver
yesterday at the continued session of the
coroners inquest. Stories of heroism or
The part of the women teachers were
recited F. P. Whitney. superintendent
of the Collinwood schools. stated his be
lief to be that no fire department coulG
have done any effective work after the
| fire had started. Two of the teachers
told of their unavailing attempts 10 opef
one of the double doors at the rear
which they said was locked. The 1nqueS
also developed the fact that. after the
| first crush at the door it was ,oeyono
human possibility to aid or save those
| whom the tongues of fire were devourine
| in the charnel house. The inquest VII
be resSmed Monday.
In statement Chief WALLACE of the
Cleveland fire department, after an ex-
animation of the ruins of the Collinwood
school. said 1t was his opinion that the
loss of life would not have been so greaf
had there been no partitions at the sides
of the storm doors at the rear entrance
Two feet eight inches had been taken on
either side of the hall for the partitions
His examination developed that the doors
opened outward. Chief Wallace doubtless
will be witness before the coroner.
Drerop%;uo Moos,,res
Drastic steps were taken by the Cleve-
land school board to place all the Cleve-
land educational buildings in condition
| that will preclude any loss of life from
fires Easements will be fireproofed
wooden stairways replaced by iron and
spiral fire escapes inclosed in towers in
stalled. Inner doors in vestibules also will
be removed
| With the appropriation of $4,000 by the
| Ohio legislature and the funds subscribed
| locally there will be plenty of financial
relief for the stricken families.
Never Inspected.
COLUMBUS Ohio. March John III
| Morgan. state shop and factory Inspector
returned to Columbus today after making
| an investigation of the collinwood school,
calamity and reported ito the governor
He is not prepared 10 fix the blame fol
| the holocaust. but says that conditions
! generally were bad. although the doors
| swung out. He admitted that the build
| ing was never inspected by his depart.
ment.
Resolution in Budapest.
BUDAPEST. March AT the opening
session of the city council today Mayor
| Fuep referred in feeling terms to the de-
| struction by fire of the Collinwood school
when so many children were burned tC
death. He said there was a probability
that many children Of hungarian parent
age were among the dead. and the council
passed a resolution of deep sympathy with