AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] OK PIN EDO’S FLIGHT. OTTAWA. .May I*. IX' Piuedo left .Montreal this morning and arrived at Quebec this afternoon and was given a reception by the local Italian colony and (ivic officials. He plans to proceed next to vShippegan Island A MANIAC’S ACTION. -ST- A SCHOOL BLOWN BP. (lleceived this day at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 18. A’ message from Bath (Michigan) states a maniac dynamited a village school and killed probably thirty children as well as the headmaster, village postmaster and another man, and may have killed himself, for the authorities suspect Andrew Kehoe. treasurer of the School Board, who was blown to atoms while sitting in an automobile near the school building. Kehoe was allegedly bitter regarding the school taxes, and it is believed ho brooded until lie became insane. Kehoc’s farm buildings were dynamited only an hour before the school explosion. The pupils were assembled for the morning studies when a terrific explosion wrecked the west wing. Villagers flocked to the building, and found firemen and volunteers dragging little bodies from the ruins. TWENTY BODIES RECOVERED. NEW YORK. May 18. The bodies of twenty children were taken from the wreckage of the district school house at Lansing, Michigan, which was destroyed by a blast, believed to have been dynamite. The ' body, was found, of a. man, who lias been seen lurking in the neighbourhood . NEW YORK, May 18. Thirtv-tbreo bodies were recovered from the Landing School debris, and twenty-two are already identified. 'I lie police estimate fifteen more, including the schoolmistress, are in the wreckage. Doctors and nurses were rushed to the scene immediately after the explosion. Many victims were pitifully injured, and these were hurried to the hospitals in the town. Frantic mothers and fathers gathered round the building, some seeking children, and others hysterical, being only able t > weep. Kehoe is reported to have been seen running away from the school at the moment of the explosion to an automobile which was standing nearby. The explosion in the car blew him to atoms. Troopers searching the premises for two hours after the disaster discovered ten sticks of dynamite with a slow fuse still burning under another wing of the building. But for theii fortunate discovery, this portion of the school would also have been destroyed in a very short time.