The Green Forest tribune., 1914-08-14
THE FUNERAL IF
 WRECK VICTIMS
TWENTY-FIVE CHARRED BODIES LAID TO REST WITH ONE CER-
 EMONY AT NEOSHO.
BLAME HAS NOT BEEN FIXED
Genuness of Signiture of Conductor Nicholas to Train Order Has
 Been Questioned.

Neosho, Mo-, Aug. 7. - Tonight, as the long shadows of the summer even- ing slowly lengthen into twilight, in the peaceful little cemetery to the southeast of the city, amid the weeping willows, are twenty five earthen mounds. There. under few feet of dirt, are the hacrred bodies of what a few days agowere loved ones in life.
 They are atpeace.
 Although those twenty five graves mark the resting place of seventeen adults and eight children, all white, forever green in the memory of ten thousand persons who attended the impressive funeral services today will remain the thoughts of that slow pro- cession headed by two floats draped in black, bearing the bodies of some of the victims of the horrible catastrophe of Wednesday night at Tipton Ford.
 The picture of the square, lined with thousands of persons, where whole section of country paid tribute to the dead, will always remain vivid in the minds of those who attended the fun eral sevices. Eight ministers, assisted by combined choir of seventy five persons from the various churches here, assisted in the ceremonies.
 When the services for those twenty lives victims of the wreck in which a motor car of tn Moussori &5 North Ark snsas crashed into Kansas City South ern passenger train, began at2 o'clock, there were thousands of persons stand ding with barred heads listening, silently praying for the departed ones.
 At the close of the services the two floats, all in black and bearing the caskets of the dead, filed slowly from the morgue toward the cemetery. The horses were draped in black and that silent throng which stood hushed for two hours, accompanied the bodies to the cemetery. When the caskets ar rived at the burial ground, fully one and one quarter miles away, only a portion of the people present were able to form in the procession. Others were forced to remain in the square, where the ceremonies had been held. They, in turn, made the procession when the draped floats made the second trip.
 Tomorrow another impressive ser vice will take place. .whe Ahe bodies of eight negroes, which are in the mor- que tonight, will de buried. Those vic- tins will sleep side by side in another plot of ground in the cemetery. Ar engagements for the services have been made and probably the same black draped floats which carried the white victims to the cemetery will be used.
 Citizens this morning discussed the proposition of raising money for mon- ument to be erected for those killed in the wreck. It was decided to sell the jewlery woich was found among the wreckage to start the fund. Citizens CIIUuSlOuC Illlo cllIlIc oSCllUIl u CilS country may contribute to the fund to mark the graves of the persons who lost their lives in the districts horrible accident.
 Out of the entire number of dead which was brought to Neosho, only one private funeral was held. It was that of L. H. Crumbaugh, general live stock agent for the Kans as City South ern railroad. The services were held o'clock this afternoon, two hours after the public ceremonies on the square. Hundreds of friends were present when the popular Neosho res ident was buried.
 The caskets, thirty in number, fol the victims arrived here this mornin g from St. Louis by way of special car. Coroner Bigam telegraphed to that city Thursday and received return message stating that they had been shipped
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