Evening star., 1937-07-26
HUNDREDS ATTEND.
.LAMMERS' RITES.
Bodies of Seven Victims of
Blazing Automobile Buried
in SinqIe Grave.
Bya stsr Correspondent of The Star.

BY stan correspondent OF The Star.
LAUREL, Nd, July 26-Surround-
ed by their remaining children. by
relatives and hundreds of neighbors
and friends, Henry and Anna Lam
mers yesterday stood in St. Mary's
the remains of four of their children
and three other relatives lowered into
single grave as Rev. Joseph A. Myer
intoned the Biblical promise Il am
the resurrection and the life
The hammers family was closely
united in grief around the flower
laden grave as they have always been
in their farm home. which until
Thursday night had echoed to the
laughter of IA happy sons and daugh-
ters and cousin who made her home
there. 1t was the first time the FAM
lily had felt the hand Of death.
StalWart Henry hammers. head Of
the family from which seven members
we're so suddenly taken when their
sedan was struck by a truck on the
Grain Highway, 4 miles from Upper
Marlboro Thursday night, found the
strength in his stout heart 10 COM
fort his wife. sons and daughters at
the one grave which held the charred
bodies.
More Than 500 at Funeral.
Six members of the laughing, sing
ing party which was returning from
carnival at Glen Burnie, were
burned beyond recognition when the
gasoline tank of their car exploded
after the collision and trapped them
in the flaming machine. David Man.
ming, 7, grandchild. was extricated
from the wreck but died in Casualty
Hospital in Washington few hours
later.
One sealed casket held all that re-
mained of the bodies of Pauline. 20,
Anna May. l3; Mildred. 10, and Ber-
nard hammers, %. all children OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry hammers, ano
Francis Baldwin, IA. and Frances
Haker, 49, other relatives. The body
OF David Manning repoeed in small
coffin which was lowered into the
same grave
But the family was not alone in its
grief. More than 500 neighbors and
friends gathered in the hush of the
Sunday afternoon to join the subduec
| prayers for the dead.
Nine Children Survive.
While the casket and the small
coffin were placed over the grave
yesterday morning hundreds of mem.
bers of ST. Mary's Parish. with whom
the hammers family have worshipee
for years. gathered in the church fol
mass. They heard Rev. Father Myer'.
supplication for the dead: "Eterna
rest grant them. o Lord" and fol
the consolation of the living, Il an
the Resurrection and the Life"
With the hammers family CAME
others sorrowed by the tragic acci.
dent. Mrs. Michael Manning. mother
of David and daughter of Mr.. anc
Mrs. hammers, leaned heavily on the
arm of her father. Other close rela.
| tives, with Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Bald
win, parents Of the dead Francis, anc
three brothers of Frances Haker
joined the sorrowing group.
Around their parents stood the nine
surviving hammers children. al
grown and all tall like their father
and mother
B. M. King, driver of the truck
which struck the hammers car, was
released by police under $500 bone
to appear at an inquest at the Uppe,
Marlboro Court House at O'Clock
tonight
King said he struck the standing cal
when he was blinded by the glarins
lights Of an automobile approaching
In the opposite direction.