The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-17
FOURTEEN Of
GROTI7TO dead
Laid TO REST
Four of One Family Are
Buried; Eight Funerals
Held.
RITES FOR 5 TUESDAY
Masonic Lodges Pay Tribute
to Crossing Crash Vic
tins at Graves.
RITES FOR 5 TUESDAY
Information in other funerals and pic
lures on Page 81

Information in other funerals and pic
lures on Page 81
Fourteen victims of the Grotto
crossing tragedy of Friday night
were buried today after eight sepa-
rate funeral services.
Masonic Lodges participated in all
of the services, the men victims all
being members of tn eorder. Oil
GERS and members of Sahara Grotto
were present.
Five more funerals will be held
Tuesday.
Four members of one family, cut
down by one wide sweep of the
sickle fdeath, we're buried in one
lot at Washington Park, cemetery
for Masons and their families, to-
day to await interrment by their
sides of four more relatives.
Died In Trailer Crash
All were victims of the mad
caprice of Death which claimed the
lives of nineteen Friday night when
an interurban leaped out OF the
darkness and struck the numbering
truck trailer on which Sahara
Grotto members and their families
were going singing to barn dance.
Those buried at one service to-
day were: Frank H. Meredith, 80, OF
1854 Lowell Ave; his wife, Mrs. Ma
bel Pauley Meredith, 80; Won
Weber Clascock, At, of 312 N. Ban
croft Ave-, and Miss Margaret
Pauley, %, of 345 S. Audubon Rd.
Mrs. Meredith and Miss Pauley
were daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. Q.
E. Pauley, 345 S. Audubon Rd. MT.
Glascock was the husband OF an
other daughter-the only one to
escape deaths clutch in the dark.
1900 Attend Services
Twelve hundred persons filled the
Shirley Brothers Funeral Home, 94o
N. Illinois ST., and overfowed to the
sidewalk during brief funeral serv-
ices for the four this morning.
Services were conducted by Mr..
Alvin G. Swank, Christian Science
reader. Mrs. Charlotte Kendrick
sang 20 Gentle Presence, Peace and
Joy and Power" by Mary Baker
Eddy. Christian Science founder.
"And God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes; and there
shall be no more death, neither
sorrow. nor crying, neither shall
there be any more pain; for the
former things are passed away" Mr
Swank read from Revelations, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Pauley and Mrs. Glas-
cock bore up Stoically.
Mason Rites at Grave
The long funeral procession led
by a squad of indianapolis and
State motor police, followed by the
four hearses wound through Indl-
annapolis streets and out E. WASH
ington st. to the cemetery near
Cumberland.
Solemn Masonic rites at the grave
concluded all that human reverence
could do for the bereaved families,
as the relatives turned away from
the graves to take up the solemn
task of burying four more relatives.
Bury Ralph w. Parker
I'm life, in brotherhood and in
DEATH" intoned the master, and the
body of Ralph w. Parker was
lowered to it's final resting place
today.
AS the last notes of a bugle
fioated through the quiet autumn
stretches of Crown Hill Cemetery,
the silence was broken by a volley
of shots by the firing squad from
Company L, 18th Infantry, of Ft.
Benjamin Harrison. Parker was a
World War veteran.
Masons of Prospect lodge No. TIA,
F. & A. M, wearing their white
aprons symbolic of the Blue lodge,
and Grotto members distinguished
by their black fezes, filed slowly past
the grave. The red tassles on the
fezes which had so often bobbed
merrily at Grotto fun tests were
now hanging drearily.
Evangelical Pastor Speaks
Funeral services were held from
the residence, 703 N. Sherman Dr.,
with the Rev. F. R. Daries, pastor
of the Zion Evangelical Church,
officiating. Pail bearers were A. H.
Mayo, George Mueller, Earl w.
Kohns, Floyd Blythe, Louis Ulrey
and L. Shioman. All are members
of the Grotto.
A quartet composed of Samuel
Potter, Charles Parker, Arnold Spen-
Ger and Fred Loomis sang "Rock of
Ages" The text of the sermon was
'The Fraility of Life and the Hope
of the Christian"