The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-06
General Memorial Serv-
ice Will Be Held Mon
day for the School
Children.
Efforts to Identify Little
Charred Bodies Con-
tinueS Among Fran
tic Parents.

CLEVELAND, Ohio. March Sos
after 9 o'clock today 2 little procession
toiled slowly down a muddy street of
CORinwood.
First a white hearse d small white
coffin lay inside Behind came two car
riages. In one mother, silent. dry
eyed in her grief By her side the
father, workingman. His face was
white. His head was bowed
In little while another white bearse
appeared. And then still another. A
single carriage followed. A silence fell
upon the streets.
These were the first funerals Of the
children burned to death in their
school. Others followed at intervals of
half an hour. Many others are Set for
the afternoon.
General Memorial.
The big general memorial service for
the unidentified dead will be held Mon
day morning.
Services will be held then simultan-
eously IN all the churches of the little
town. These services are practically
for the unidentified. They are to be
at the same time a memorial for an the
victims of the fire
Solemn high mass VIII be held in 81.
JOsephs, Church tomorrow morning
There the little caskets viii lie in a row
before the altar. High mass will be
held at the same hour Saturday in ST
Marys Church.
At 10 az m. today the funeral of three
little children was held at the German
Baptist Church. Many people whose
boys and girls were burned TO death I'm
the fire had come to Cleveland to worl,
in the shops and had lived in Collin
wood only year or two. MANY OF
these children are sent to former homes
for burial. For others ministers from
other towns have come t. hold services
at the houses.
Bodies Leave CoIlinwooA.
Some Of the bodies yer, taken AWAY
from Collinwood by tren last night
Nearly eighty dead children have baap
prepared for burial at one undertaking.
In CoIIinwood 0re
burial case factory IN CIeveIspS has
been working day and night since the
ire to supply enough little white collins
~ A4b4Q al AlAE UDGieN.
One OF the citizens committees has
arranged for fifteen quartets from
Cleveland to sing at the chtIdren's fune-
rails Children of other Collinwood 1ub-
lie schools will serve as paIIbearers.
Definite plans for the memorial Mon
iay were made at a meeting Of the
main citizens committee. 1t WI be
left TO each minister to arrange the
services in his own church.
According TO present arrangement ts
the bodies OF the unidentified children
Will not be taken 10 the churches. ThAv
VIII be placed in a funeral car and AT
the conclusion of the services the cars
VIII start for Lakeview Cemetery where
all will lie together
Monument Will Mark Graves.
The village is TO purchase 2 lot for
them there and a large monument viii
mark the place where they are blrrfad
They now lie in two long rows in +ba
engine house Of the Town Hall.
one Of the last bodies recognized 1ata
yesterday was identified by her taatb
No other distinguishing mark remained
For most OF the others. almost M
chance OF "ecognition remains. tbouoh
he acting coroner viii keep. .his morg1,a
,pen until 8 o'clock this afternoon
Then these also viii be prepared for
burial
II had been planned to hold the cen
raj funeral for all the identified victims
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