Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-08-06
500 MORE BURIED
TRUCKS AND WAGONS USED AS
HEARSES IN THE EAST
LAND FUNERAL.
ALL CHICAGO IN MOURNING
Many of the Bodies Are Placed In
Vaults Because the Men Cannot Dig
Graves Fast Enough-6are Heads
to Rain.

Chicago, July 30.-Five hundred of
Wednesday.
They went to the cemeteries on all
the city's streets-long lines of car
riages and utomobiles-hearses and
trucks that were used for hearses-
They were so thick ON the roads to
the burying grounds that one process
sion frequently had to wait until an
other. went by Undertakers were un,
able to get as many hearses as they
needed. 1t was no uncommon sight to
see five boxes on motor truck
draped in black and purple and white
big boxes and medium and small
ones.
The burying took all morning and all
afternoon. Many bodies were placed
in vaults-for there were not men
enough to dig graves for them.
The city wakened early at the toll
ing of bells. It was raining. and dark
and cool The undertakers arrived,
the carriages or automobiles pulled
up before the doors of the mourners,
and soon the professions we're under
way to the churches, and then out to
Mount Carmel, Mount Olivet Calvary,
Bohemian National. st. Adelbert and
Forest Home cemeteries.
Community services were held in
the Church of Mary Queen of Heaven
Fifty-third avenue and West Twenty
fourth street, where 80 collins were
laid out in the form of cross.
The crowd stood outside. heads
barred to the rain. The wet came in
through the chinks in the uncompleted
roof; the singing of the choir girls and
the chanting of the priests came out
to the crowd in undiminished volume
Bishop Paul P. Rhode preached in
Polish. and his eyes we're wet at times
and his hand shook with emotion
While he talked the listeners saw 9
great crowd surging on to the boat
men and women, boys and girls. They
we're laughing and talking. eager to be
off on their holiday.
You could see the roisterers scram
BILE unalarmed when the vessel begar
to list. What did they know of dan
ger? What did they know of ballas
or overcrowding?
Then came the sudden cries, the
| prayers. the calls for help and the
curses of men gone mad. You saw ths
| struggling hundreds swept down a:
the vessel carreened, spilled over th'
side like water out of cup, and yol
felt the agony of those other hundreds
who found themselves rescued Will,
wife. husband, mother, father, chill
| dren, brother, sister, friend and sweet
heart all went down.
You saw again the long rows o
blanketed figures in the morgues, tn
| divers fastening ropes about arms an,
legs of bodies down in the hold of tn
vessel, the policemen in unbroken pre-
| cessions, carrying bodies on thei
stretchers.
Yet there was none of these thing
mentioned in the bishops talk-it wa
felt only, by his auditors.
The cause of this Disaster" b
said, may be traced to avarice, t
the disregard of public safety, to ms
terialism run riot, which seeks its end
regardless of all considerations or tn
toll which must be paid"
The bishop closed.
Then came the final "Requiescant
Pace" and the pallbearers caught th
handles of the cofins and bore frol
the church to the waiting hearses tn
bodies of their friends.
Girls there were, dressed in whit,
who acted as pallbearers, and othe
girls in white walked by the sides or &
the head of the caskets.