Evening star., 1935-04-12
14PUP|LS KILLED.;
CRASH IS PROBED
13 Children, Driver and
Teacher Escape in Cross
ing Tragedy.
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dying. Father O'Hara also went to
the scene of the crash.
When the daZed children arrived at
the Bouic house. cool Miss Funk,
heroine of the night. refused treat
ment for her own injured forehead
until she called DR.. Ira Zimmerman,
whose daughter was killed in the ac-
cident, to tell him of the tragedy.
Teacher Complies List.
DR.. Zimmerman was one of the first
residents of Williamsport to reach
Rockville. At the time he did not
know the life of his own little girl,
Margaret Eva, had been snuffed out.
Calmly Miss Funk read to DR.. Zim-
norman the list Of the then known
dead that she herself had prepared
as q result Of roll call in the Boulc
home She asked DR.. Zimmerman to
notify the children's parents. How
ever, she was unable to reveal to the
doctor that his own daughter was
dead.
DR.. Zimmerman finally learned OF
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undertaking establishment, where her
body was laid in basement room
with eight of her schoolmates. He
bravely assisted the undertaken and
Montgomery County officials in the
identification of the dead.
Mothers Shocked by Sight.
Throughout the long night pale,
tight Tipped friends and relatives OF
the children streamed through the
Humphrey funeral parlor to stare at
the still forms of their loved ones.
Mothers screamed at the sight of the
bodies as they viewed them in the
undertaking establishment.
Although most of the injured we're
taken to Georgetown Hospital, Pearl
Emerson, II, was taken alone to the
county hospital at Sandy Spring, Md
She was dead on arrival.
Albert Leaf, the only undertaken in
Williamsport, whose son. Albert, jr,
was on the trip but escaped serious
injury, arrived in Rockville to make
arrangements for the fearful parents
Of the dead children.
Bus Takes Survivors Home.
As soon as DR.. Edwin w. Broome,
superintendent of Montgomery County
schools, learned of the disaster, he
ordered Cullum Barnsley to drive the
II children, who were only slightly
injured, back to their homes in Will
Transport.
A Montgomery school bus was used
for this purpose. With the children
went Miss Kay Cochran. physical edu-
cation teacher at Rockville High
School; Mrs. Frank Marshall and a
Montgomery County policeman.
Driver Line went too, but Mont.
gomery County police at once sent
word to Hagerstown to have him re-
turned to Rockville for the investiga-
tion. He arrived in the county police
headquarters shortly after 7 O'Clock
this morning.
News of the tragedy spread rapidly
In the small town of WilliamSport and
parents of the dead and injured chill
dren hurried to Rockville. Few Of
them knew until their arrival that
their children were dead. Mothers
who learned the sad news collapsed in
the Pumphrey undertaking parlor as
well as the Montgomery County Police
headquarters. First aid was admin
istered by police officers. One woman,
sister of an injured child. swooned
when she heard the child was only
slightly hurt and was on her way
home
Aside from Dr. Zimmerman, among
the first to reach Rockville were Mr..
and Mrs. George Bloyer. who came to