The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-07
FIFTY BURIALS IN COLLNWO0D Many Sad Scenes Arc
 Enacted. TO REPEAT GREwsoME TASK Mutterings Against Janitcr Could Be Heard About Village. FuIly Five Hundred Persons ssthsrss About His House sna Police De- tail Was ordered out--Ccr-
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TO REPEAT GREWsoME TASK

Cleveland, O., March b.--SrOilnWoon today came to full realizaEion of her woe.
 Slowly and solemnly the processions Of death began to wend their way to- ward the cemeteries. bearing the bat tered ana charred remains of some of the hundred and sixty-seven children whose lives. were snuffed out in We'd nesday mornings catastrophe In the Lakeview school From 3 o'clock Tn the morning until dusk. there was no cessation of the funeral corteges. Those who had no dead to mourn as . personal loss stood In the streets with barred heads as the grim procession passed. There was scarcely q dry eye in Coliinwood. One of the sad funer- als was that of the three children of Janitor Herter. held jointly with the services for three other little onea-
 BEmsterinwH Against Jnniter.
 Mutterings against the ianitor could be heard about the village as grief crazed parents sought an object upon which to wreak vengeance. forgetting as they did that Herter himself was walking with bowed head and broken heart behind the biers of three of his loved ones. 4 detail of police was placed around the Herter home when the hour for the funeral came. Fully 500 persons had gathered. but when the cofins were carried to the doorway. the crowd spread and opened the way for them without protest or expression of hostility.
 Altogether there were nfty buriAls today and tomorrow the 9rewsome task will be repeated. Sunday will witness the last Of the individual bur- iaIs, and oh Monday the remains of all those who are unidentified will be laid to rest with one funeral. Tonight there are twenty eight Of these bundles of flesh that await ciaimantA
 Testimony describing the mad rush to death of the school children was given today at the continued session of the coroner's inquest. Stories o9 hero- ism on the part of the women teachers were recited. B. WhitneY, Super lntehdehk Of kle ColIlnwoea schools stated hts belief to ba that no ife del pertinent could have done any enoctive work after the Ire had started Two of the teachers told Of their unavaiI-. ing attempts to open one of the double doors at the rear which they said was locked. The inquest also developed the fact that. after the first crush at the door it was beyond human possi- bility to aid or save those whom the tongues of fire were devourlng in the charneI house. The inquest will be re- stunned Monday.
 Fire Chiea Testlaen.
 In statement today. Chief Wallace of the Cleveland fire department. after an examination of the ruins of the Collinwood school, said it was his opinion that the loss of life would not have been 50 great had there been no partitions at the sides of the storm doors at the rear entrance. Two feet, eight inches had been taken off either aide of the hall for the partitions. His examination developed that the doors opened outward Chief Wallace doubt less will be a witness before the cor Oner.
 Drastic steps were taken today by the Cleveland School Board to place all the Cleveland educational buildings in condition that will preclude any loss of life from fires. Easements will be ire-proofed, wooden stairways re- placed by iron and spiral Are escapes enclosed in towers installed Inner doors in vestibules also will be re- moved.
 With the appropriation of S2s,OoO to- day by the Ohio Legislature and the funds subscribed locally there will be plenty of financial relief for the stricken families.
 Miss Weller IdentlMed.
 The body of Miss Katherine Weller. one of the two teachers who lost their lives in the Colllnwood school fire. was positively identified today by a dent- ist. The body had been 30 terribly burned that 1t could hardly be d;stin- guished from the bodies of the others.
 Identification was establighed by her goid-filled teeth upon description fur nished by a Pittsburg dentist.
 The body of Rosetta Machnich. a former pupil in the school. was identi- ned also today, by her shoes. When Mrs. Machnich was positive of the iden- tification, she fell faintIng upon the charred body of her little one.
 There are stiil twenty-three bodies unidentified. So far 167 bodies have been recovered. The list of missing now tallies with the number of un- identified, which would indicate that all the bodies have been found and that the total death list will stand 1e7. Tn fully 100 cases the funerals win be individual, each family burying It's own dead. The first of tn csc funerals wae held this morning. They will continue through the day. In some Instances funeral services were grouped with i've to ten bodies in one church.
 The unidentified will be buried next Monday according to present arrange ments. The expense of these funerals. together with the funerals of children whose parents are not in a financial condition to meet the burden. will be paid by the public subscriptions which are growing larger every hour.
 Already thousands of dollars have been ra.sed. In addition to this. bilI has been introduced in the State appropriating S25.000 for the relief of the needy fire sufferers.