Evening star., 1926-11-11
Heart-Broken Maryland
Town Turns Sadly to Day
of Funerals.
CYCLONE VICTIMS LAID
TO REST ONE BY ONE
All Bodies Expected to Have Been
Inferred by Tomorrow-Relief
Fund Grows.

Heart broken La Plata today re-
signed itself to the sad task of bury
ing it's dead. The deaths stand ut 16.
II of them being children.
Quietly and solemnly the whole tow n
participated in the last rites to the
memories of the young lives snuffed
out by a tornado Tuesday afternoon.
1t is day of funerals All through
the morning and through the after
noon the tolling of bells at short in
tervals marked another last Journey.
Rosy checked, bright-eyed boys Of
ficiated as pallbearers. Churches are
filled to over1owing with hushed
throngs.
The text beginning 81 am the res
direction and the life" preached at
many of the funeral services. typifes
the spirit with which La Plata is oh
serving an Armistice day far different
from that which marked the end of a
world disaster eight years ago.
Rites for All But Three.
Funerals for all but three of the VIC
Tins had been held late this afternoon.
At the Episcopal Church services
were held for Mary Ellen Bowie,
years old; Lester Sinclair, Z; Henry
Clagett, s, and James Wright Mad
doX, 9.
Requiem mass was sOlemnized three
times today in funerals at Sacred
Heart Church--first for Rufus Watts,
the colored janitor of the school; then
for Jack Clark, jr., II. and La Viga
Martin, his, 12-year-old chum: and
shortly before noon for Mary Alice
Cooksey, 8. and Edward Bean. 10.
Lucille Miles, IL, was buried this
afternoon after services at the MethO-
dist Church. Lulu Patterson, cOlOred
woman. was buried late yesterday
after Methodist services. The body of
Lucille Edwards, 10, has been taken
to Waynesboro, Va, for interment.
Remaining to be buried are Tilden
Cooksey, 8, brother of the girl who
was buried this morning; Theresa
Estelle Bean, 9, sister of the boy who
was buried this morning, and Lillian
Della, 8.
The inability to transfer the three
bodies from Washington to La Plata
was the reason for the funerals of
these three children not being held
today.
Bishop James E. Freeman, in charge
ton, attended the Episcopal services
and read the funeral ritual at the
Episcopal Church here. This church,
the largest in La Plata, was unable
to accommodate the crowds which
fiocked to 1t.
Relief Agency Planned.
A meeting at O'Clock this after
noon was expected to develop a per
manent relief agency In La Plata.
j. B. Gwynn. from National Red Cross
headquarters in Washington. will
meet with the members of the citizens
relief committee, already functionins,
and representatives of the Salvation
Army to work out a unified plan for
distributing the relief funds now in
hand.
The first contributions for emeG-
gency work have been pledged already
to care for financial obligations in
connection with the funerals.
why did this all happen?" asked
Rev. w. j. lyman in his sermon at the
services over the bodies of Jack Clark
and La Vega Martin. why does God
allow it? That is the question that
has rung down through the ages.
Why is there suffering? Why is there
disaster?
1.-THE answer is that the wages of
sin is death. Sin has caused it." And
mere dIIeT L nan W ILlc u u
Cifix above his head and said: This
will tell you more than / can. Look
at the nails at the hands and the feet.
Look at the crown of thornS. Sin
causes this, and sin causes all suffer
ing.
MAN refused to accept the perfect
life God had arranged for him and sin
came into the world. After sin came
suffering"
The burial of the two children took
place at Chapel Point. They were
placed in graves side by side.
Relief Fund Growing.
While the day was devoted 10
funerals, the relief committee an
nounced that the fund was now reach
Ing SO 600 for aid and that a number
of cases already had been taken
care of.
An investigation was instituted to-
day into the report that one of the
dead was Marie Langley. The opinion
is that an error crept into the reports
in some way. but the final announce
ment has not been made.
A check-up at Washington hos.
pitfalls is being arranged as well as
general survey of the local fam
lilies She was first reported as
missing and believed dead, but resi-
dents here failed TO connect the name
with any child known in the com
munity.