SCHOOL TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 389, 22 March 1937, Page 5

SCHOOL TRAGEDY.

Mass Funerals of Texas Dead. Press Association —Copyright. Overton (Texas), March 20. The victims of the explosion at the New London school will be buried today in cemeteries scattered over a wide area in East Texas, preceded by mass funeral services at churches in the towns of New London, Overton, Henderson and Pleasant Hill. Seventy clergymen, representirg all denominations, will participate. The coffins will be carried to the I churches from various temporary 1 morgues. By the time the families | enter the churches the coffins will be (arranged in rows. Parents will be urgled to forego the usual final look at ■ the dead, due to the mutilation of the I bodies.

I Floristu and extra helpers worked i through the night preparing wreaths, j Hearses from all parts of the STate were marshalled, but they were insufficient for the burial of all the bodies. The remainder will be buried on Sunday. All other highway traffic will he halted to permit the corteges to reach the cemeteries. A thousand Weary oilfield workers at New London completed the search in the ruins of the school. A. total of at laast 425 are dead, including 11 teachers, and 125 are Injur"«<»rious-. ly, most of them being expected tdie. One hundred others are injured in varying degree. A final inventory of the dead is at present impossible.