425 BODIES FOUND

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 56, 22 March 1937, Page 5

425 BODIES FOUND

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Search For Victims of School Expiosion BURIALS UNDER WAY

(By Telegraph-

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(Keceived s.45 a.m.) MONTREAL, March 20. One thousand weary oilfield workers at New London completed a search of the school ruins. They found 425 dead, including 14 teachers, and 125 injured seriously, most of whom are expected to die. One hundred others were injured in Varying degrees.The condolences of foreign Government s in many parts of the world have been received, also contributions. A chemistry expert, testifying beforo the military inquiry, was of the « pinion that gas seeped into the hollow til3 building. The builder testified that gas keatmg had been chosen for ec* nomy in preference to more costly sys tems. Ihe Governors of Texas and Oaklahoma have ordered the cessation f as heatvng in all sohools pending on investigation as to its safety. The victims of the expiosion at the New London school will be buried today in cemeteries scattered over a wide area of East Texas preceded by mass funeral services at ohurches in the towns of New London, Overton, Henderson and Pleasant Hill. •Seventy clergymen representing all denominations will participate. The coffins will be carried to the ehurches from various temporaTy morgues and by the time the families enter the churches the coffins will be arranged in xows. The parents will be urged to forego the usual final look at the dead due to mutilation. Plorists and extra helpers worked through the night preparing wreaths. Hearses from all parts of the State were marshalled but they are insufficient for the burial of all, The remainder will be buried on Sunday. Other highway traffic will be halted to permit the corteges to reach the cemeteries. A final inventory of the dead ig at; present impossible, ' y ^ j