The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-08
ANOTHER DAY
Of FUNERALS
Of CHILDREN
Seventy More Victims of the
CoIIinWood Horror Laid
in Grave.
PUBLIC FUNERAL FOR
UNIDENTIFIED DEAD
MOVEMENT STARTED TO ERECT
MONUMENT TO MEMORY OF
THE LITTLE ONES.

Cleveland. o.. March THE total
number of dead as a result of the burn
ing of the Lakeview school in Collin
wood last Wednesday is now thought to
be ia. OF this number the bodies of l6l
have been found. The bodies of six
other children are believed to have been
burned to ashes. This is the opinion of
the village officials, who have compiled
what is supposed to be a complete list OF
the missing.
The death list was increased early
today by the death of Glen Barber, 10
years of age who succumbed to in
juries sustained when he ieaped from
the second story of the doomed building
while his schOolmates rushed headlOng
into the flames in the lower hallway
Identified by Mother.
OF the bodies recovered. 147 have been
identified The last identification was
established late today when the body
of Richard Kelly, the ten-year-Old son
of Walter Kelly, marine editor of the
Cleveland Leader. was picked from the
ruins. His mother was able to COM
plete the identification by means of
stitches she had worked about the but
tonhOle found in a small piece of the
boys Undertaking which chung to the
body.
This was another day of funerals.
The first services were held simulta-
neously at St. Marys and st. JOseph's
Catholic churches. In the former ser
vices were held for sixteen bodies, and
in the latter for twelve. In addition, in
/ dividual funerals were held in nearly
two score of homes. Throughout the
day about seventy bodies were buried.
More than forty were inferred yester-
day. There win be several more fu-
nerals tomorrow.
/ Many Mistakes Made.
| 1t is believed by officials in charge of
/ the bodies that mistakes have been
made by parents who claimed the little
| blackened remains during the excite
ment of the first day or two, and that
/ they took possession of bodies that were
not those of their dead children. Dep
uty Coroner Mcneil was convinced of
| this early today and made an effort to
rectify some of the plumbers. In this he
was handicapped, as in some cases the
! funerals had been held and in other in
| stances the beTeaved parents could not
be convinced of their supposed error.
Arrangements were completed, today
/ for the public funeral for the uniden-
tilted, which viii be held next Monday
morning The bodies of several chill
dren whose parents are not able TO bear
the financial burden will be included in
this service.
Plot of Ground for Unidentified.
The village council of CollinwoOd has
purchased a small tract of land in the
village cemetery where all of these
bodies will be inferred.
At the same hour the public funeral
will be held memorial services viii be
held in all of the city schools Of Cleve-
land. At that hour also all of the
church bells in COllinwood will be tolled
| simultaneously.
The body of Miss Grace Fiske.s one Of
the two teachers who gave their lives
to save their pupils. was buried this af-
ternoon near the spot where the uni
Identified will be hurried next Monday.
One Man Persisted.
The body of Miss Katherine Weller.
the other teacher who met death with
her school children. has not been. re-
covered. Twice it was thought her
body had been found, but the identifi-
cations were erroneous. In. the last in
stance the body claimed by her father
was found to be that Of a man. This
body is supposed to be that of John
Krajnyak, who was one Of the first to
reach the burning school building and
, who was seen to rush into the building
r in an effort to save some of the little
boys and girls. He was been missing
since the fire, but it was not thought
, until today that he had sacrificed his
: life.
Monument Proposed.
A movement has been started among
the school officials of Cleveland TO have
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