The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-04-19
Old Delray flushed As
Bodies Are Borne
to Grave
MISSIONER CLOSE
TO BREAKDOWN
Calls on God to Witness
He Didn't Cause
Accident

Long before life stirred in the
downtown district OF Detroit. satur.
day morning. the bell In the tower
OF the church OF St. John Cantius,
Puiaski-st and Harbaugh-ave., tolled
In q day or burial. In old Deiray.
Little Hungary. Little Poland. and
Little Austria-they're all in Delray
laid aside their work and pleasure
Tor the day. swarthy giants from
the shops. quantity clad women.
with shawls on their heads. and
wondering youngsters who didn't
know what Il was all about. crowd.
ed about the church Of st. John. rs
early as $3.50 o'clock. to pay a last
tribute TO seven of the rs persons
whose lives we're ground out last
"Wednesday. when street car and
freight train crashed at the d.. T.
q !. railroad crossing at West JEFF.
ferson-ave.
Every seat In the church was &C.
cupied. when the Rev. FIT. John 8.
walczak opened the FIRST OF the two
services that were held. The FIRST
mass began At 1880 o'clock. and Il
was said over the bodies OF Mary
wawro. Anna Fredel. and John Biel.
The chanting OF the priest had
hardly died away. and the three fu.
neral professions we're gone on
their way TO Holy Cross cemetery
only a few moments. when four
moro caskets were carried down the
aisle OF the church. BY this time,
the throng In the church had be.
come 90 large that many women.
most OF whom had babies with
them. knelt In prayer on the floor
Of the hallway. In the four. caskets
tefore TIE sitsr were the remains
OF Anna zajas. Mrs. Elizabeth Cav.
arzycka. Mrs. Sophia wojewodxic,
and Mrs. Valera Calus. The sec.
ond mass was begun ut $50 o'clock,
by the Rev. Fr. Joseph Utas.
Contrasted TO the wild scenes
which followed the Identification OF
bodies In the morgue. was the sad
silence which attended the funeral
services. Husbands. wives. broth
ers and sisters. gathered about the
nower-banked caskets. wept quietly
but uttered not a single outcry.
Stolid men. friends OF the vic.
tins. knelt. or sat through the ser.
vices. as II In a trance. raising their
hands to their eyes, now and then.
TO wipe away tear. The women,
seeming 10 follow the example OF
the men. wept silently.
II was only when the caskets
were carried out OF the church. that
grief-stricken men and women gave
way to their emotions. Frank Zaj.
a.. brother OF Anna. buried HIS
head In HIS hands. as he staggered
out OF the church TO carriage. I'm.
mediately after the hearse had
driven away The burial OF his sis.
ter marked the end OF his dream OF
bringing his mother from Galicia to
Detroit, 10 live In a new home and
in a new land. with her daughter
and son.
Anna Zajas was member OF the
Holy Rosary society OF the church.
and members OF the organization at
tended In body. each holding q
fickering candle. When the casket
was carried out. II passed between
two rows OF the society members
The banner OF the society was held
at the head OF the conn. valeria
Calus was a member OF the Ladies'
sodality. The sodality. with its
banner. and heaps OF flowers. sur.
Sounded the remains OF this victim.
Throughout the services, while
he bell tolled. about 400 persons
gathered about the church. West
Jefferson-ave.. usually alive with
crowds OF foreigners. was practical
ly deserted.
Less than three blocks away from
the church. In the crossing at which
the catastrophe occurred. Over the
spot where the lives OF the seven
were lost, the hearses drove. Satur.
day, followed by carriages OF mourn.
ers. The seven victims were buried
In Holy Cross cemtery.
Neither OF the priests made any
allusion to the grade crossing acci-
dent during the services.
The funeral of Gail Gladys
George. teacher In the Redford
school. was held Friday afternoon.
Services were held by the Rev.
stephen Waterbury. Of olivet Pres.
oyterian church. In Miss Georges
home. No 20 Portland-ave. She
MAS hurled In woodmere cemetery.
Johcn c. westover. student"
motorman who was I'm charge of the
West Jefferson care which was
struck by a backing d.. T. a ].
freight train. Wednesday night.
lrinsing death to rs persons, and in.
Irries 10 % more. called on God TO
witness that he was innocent OF any
responsibility for the wreck. when
5een In his cell In the central sta
Ion. Saturday morning.
II would rather have killed my
Ieif, or met death In any imaginable
'ofm, than 10 have been instrument