The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-06-01
PENN COLLEGE
COMMENCEMENT
WILL GO ON WITH SOME SLIGHT
CHANGES IN PROGRAM.
NO OTHER BODIES IN RUINS
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Words of Sympathy and Encourage
ment From All Over the Coun-
try. Something Must Be
Done At Once.
NO OTHER BODIES IN RUINS
(From Mondays DaiIy.)

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(From Mondays Daily.)
Thousands of people visited tn
scene of the Penn College calamit.
Saturday afternoon and all day Sun
Ijay. Hundreds of automobiles passed
the place. Street cars brought peopl,
walked to college avenue while mum
bers came from nearby towns.
That Penn College had been wreck
ed was almost beyond belief, but fol
lowing realization of the fact quicl
action comes in the nature of reliet
measures. A Board Meeting of such
members of hte board and the Penn
college executive committee as could
be gathered locally, convened Satur
day afternoon following the fire tC
take up, in a formal way the necessi
ties of the hour.
All school sessions were abandoned
until Wednesday morning upon order
of the board. Today, Monday, would
have been the last day for regular
work and the remainder of the week
was to have been devoted to final ex.
aminations and preparations, social
events, etc. attendant upon commence
ment. Much of the program will be
changed and some parts will be aban-
doned altogether. but JUST which
events will be retained has not been
determined.
! Chapel will be, held Wednesday
morning. the first fpyalal gathering of
the school since the fine, in the Friends
church, College averhea and c street
at the usual hour or the college pro
gram. .'- .-''
Board Meeting Called.
Call was issued by this informal
Board meeting to be held Wednesday
IafternOOR the earliest possible time
that could be arranged. At this meet.
ing, will be taken up what is best to
do in the emergency and it is likely
that some plan for definite action will
be taken looking towari the securing
of suitable quarters and temporary
accommodations for the opening of the
school in the fall. Details of these ar
engagements must be worked out by
committees later.
In the meanwhile, what of Penn
ColIege?" The question is before the
community in a new light. But there
is but one expression from all sides.
Penn College must be rebuilt better
than before and upon scale that will
accommodate the demand of the times
and that will also meet the needs Of
the moment.
Announcement was given out from
the pulpits at Sunday services for an
earnest consideration of what Penn
College means to this community and
asking for some expression as to what
should or what could be done. The
Penn college disaster was the theme
upon every tongue and the thought
of every mind and expression was
voiced by the ministers o fthe city.
Sympathy Is Expressed.
While the commencement program
will necessarily suffer to a marked de.
gree and while the fire and its attend
ant loss of life will cast cloud upon
the week, the accommodations of the
college are ample to care for the nee
essary features of the season. Com
mencement events will be well &C
commodated in the auditorium or in
the Friends church.
kilograms and messages of sympa-
all parts of the country following the
announcement of the Penn college dis
aster and the school has been before
the country as never before. The word
of PENIS suffering has gone forth to
the length and breadth of the land and
it's friends are rallying to the sup
port of the institution in the distress
and need. a .,,.
No More Bodies In Ruins. ..s
Foundation to the thought that pos
sibly another body might be found in
the ruins of the wrecked building, was
given by the faculty meeting Satur
day morning, Mention of names OF the
dead were withheld from resolutions
Of sympathy for the time being as II
was uncertain in the minds of those
assembled how many might be dead
Persistent rumor claimed that people
had been seen in the building who had
not come out and who had been lost
in the sode halls.
These rumors we're intensified and
given new color when a man at the
M. & St. l.. round house who was as
sisting at the fire was reported miss
ing.
This man has since been located and
all others of the student body and
college building attaches have been
checked and accounted for. No one Is
now reported missing and the work
Of searching the ruins for additional
bodies has been abandoned
Fire Seen BY Train Men.
4 Ffrp An cha rone ~ Pam C0fInge