THE SAAR TRAGEDY
HUEIAL OE VICTIMS
TOUCHING CEREMONY
United Press Association—By Electric Teh* , graph—Copyright. ! (Received February 15, 2 p.m.) ii BERLIN, February 14. At Neunkirchen, the scene of tha Saar Valley gas explosion in which over 220 lives were lost, the thousand* of citizens in the streets broke downwhen fifteen black-draped horsedrawn wagons, escorted by firemen I with lighted torches; conveyed- fifty-six coffins of the victims to the cemetery. In; the presence of Herr yon Papen and hjgh officials, the Superintendent of the Lutheran Church and the Catholia Bishop officiated at a service in a public, hall, which was broadcast over the j country. Twenty thousand attended and there was a ten minutes' silence j throughout the Saar when the bodies I were interred in two large graves in j the Protestant and Catholic sections'of the cemetery. i There are still nine missine and 161' I are injured.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 38, 15 February 1933, Page 10
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