Arizona republican., 1908-03-06
DEAD PUPILS
 OF LAkfVIEW
The Gathering Up of Wed-
 nesddy's Victims
The Number of Dead Last Night Had Reached 164.

i Cleveland. O. March 5.-Twenty-four hours after the disaster which caused | the death of approximately One-third
 of the school children of North Col 1 lingwood, the death roll numbers 164 Of these 137 are identified in the Lake Shore morgue, while tWenty-seven re-
 main there in a condition of mutila- tion probably forever beyond recogni- | tion.
 i The work of digging in the ruins of 1 the Lake View school house in a fur | ther search for the remainder of the
 children. still missing. began with the
 break of day.
 Dawn found mothers and fathers
 waiting about the ruined building af
 ter having spent the night in an effort
 to find the children's remains in the
 extemporized morgue. Little was
 brought forth during the day to satis- ! fy their longings. It is believed to-
 night that all the bodies that can be
 removed from the ruins, have been taken out.
 The burial of the dead is the task now confronting those in authority in the little village Arrangements for the funeral of the victims were dis cussed tonight at d meeting attended by the mayor of Collingwood, and members of the board of education, the
 clergy and undertakers. The idea of having a public funeral for all the dead has been abandoned, though it is probable that where it can be done the
 burial day will be fixed for Monday. The interments will be individual and not concerted, except in the case of the unidentified and those whose parents are too poor to pay the expenses of the funerals.
 Tonight the work of removing the bodies to their former homes was completed and the undertakers will be
 set to work to prepare tomorrow for
 the interments.
 The corOnerS inquest was begun this morning when a number of witnesses
 were examined without developing any testimony beyond mere. opinion. An | investigation was conducted by the Collingwood school board. which lasted far into the night, at which a number
 of the survivors of the horror told their stories and brought forth these | facts:
 That one of the inner doors of the west entrance to the school was closed and fastened. while the children were piling up against it in the passage. That the wing partitions in the vesti- bule were narrowed in the exit by at least three feet. That the flames came first from the closet below the stair
 way at the east entrance. The closet contained lime and sawdust. That three little girls were found hiding in play in the closet earlier in the morn ing. There was but one fire escape
 and it's use was never taught as part
 of the fire drill. Survivors among the teachers estimate that only two or three minutes passed between the time of the alarm until all escape was cut off.
 The building was a fair sample of the kind of school construction in small towns. The railways and stairs were closed between the interior brick walls, { forming a huge flue through which the flames shot up with great rapidity. One question, much discussed. was whether the doors opened inward or
 outward. Fire Marshals Crockett and
 Fiegenbaum examined the door ways today and stated later that they were
 convinced that they opened outward.
 Whether they were locked, they had
 not been able to determine. There is testimony on both sides. The janitOr
 still insists that the dooYs were unlock ed.