The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
WOMAN DIES IN CRASH
Two Others Relieved Fatally Injured
 In Truck Accident

woman died of burns from steam, two may die and 10 others are in a criti- cal condition at a hospital as re- suit of q collision tonight when 8 motor bus in which 60 women were passengers, careened into the boiler of a concrete mixer. The victims were employees of the Christian Her aid of New York and were returning to that city attending the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Christian Herald home here.
 The bus skidded while passing over a rough stretch of road under repair, witnesses said, and knocked a steam valve from the boiler. In stantly the bus was enveloped in scalding Vapor.
 Miss Jean Reda of Brooklyn died after being taken to the hospital Miss Moretta Younger and Miss Lil- lian Johnson, both of New York, may die, it was said at the hospital.
 in the love of his friends and the re- spect and honor of all his country men.
 Enter Simple Home.
 And now he was carried slowly by, over the road home his feet had known so we'll carried to the old father. waiting at the door.
 At the house the hearse was re- lteVed of its precious burden by the honor guard, and the coffin was car ried in through the doorway that was almost too modest and small to admit the great casket that held the great man In his homecoming With diffi- culty the bearers lifted it through. while Mrs. Harding waited bravely to follow, and the cabinet members stood facing inward on either side of the walk to add 10 the dignity of the Homecoming of their dead chief
 Warren Harding was home again in his fathers house. 1t was fitting that those he knew best should come to visit a space with him and that they should see again the face that now the whole world knows so well. In the front room to the left of the doorway his casket was placed. The furniture the dead man probably would have greatly missed had he known of it's removal. had been taken away. Flowers banked the walls almost to the ceiling.
 Armed Guards At Their Post.
 Again the armed guards of the dead took up their post beside the bier; the draping flag was laid back and the long cover lifted to show once more the sti4l features. Then the door was free to all who might wish to come and the sorrowful pro- lCSSiOH oL Olu lIItluS anu uelG IlDOIsb of men and women and children from all around began it's silent walk. Un- til late in the night no check was placed in the way of thousands who came thus and again tomorrow there will be opportunity for those who could not come today to pay their respects to dead neighbor Then will follow the simple religious serv- ice: the funeral that will be no more striking, save for the thousands who crowd to witness it and the great place in life some among those thou sand hold. than that of any other simple American and the long days of the homecoming from San Fran cisco will be over.
 There was one striking contrast in the scene here in Marion today from that in Washington yesterday. There. no mournful drapery covered the great government buildings and the tokens of sorrow in horses and stores were a rarety. It was not that Washington felt no sorrow but that precedent, long established, is against funeral draping of the na- tion's capitol
 Here in Marion. the flowing Of black drapery is everywhere and hardly a house but has the pictured face of the dead President in the window. always with a bit Of crepe or a mourning border about it. Far and wide over Ohio it is the same. In all nearby towns and hamlets there are ceremonial trappings ot sorrow and everywhere the face of Warren Harding, last of the Presi- dents Ohio has given to the na- ton. fourth of the six from his state to meet death in that high of flee. looks down on passersby with friendly glance.