Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-31 | Page 35 | More Bodies Found in Ruins of Church

MORE BODIES FOUND li RUINS OF CHURCH 54 Women Among the Victims Vic-tims of the German Long Range Shell. PARIS, March 30. Rescue parties at work in the church which was struck yesterday by a shell from a German long range gun have found more bodies. It is now known that fifty-four women were killed. The shell struck the north side of the church, bringing down part of the roof and opening a breach twelve feet high and twenty feet wide. Nearly all the debris fell forward upon the heads of .the worshipers sixty feet below. - The edifice is now a heart-rending sight. -'The enormous mass of stone crumbled into all shapes and sizes, lies in the middle of the naive and piled to about tho same height as tho high altar, which was not damaged. In addition to H. ytrc.hehliu, counsellor coun-sellor of the Swiss legation in Paris, who was killed, it is feared that his wife also is a victim, although searchers search-ers have not yet found her body in the debris. Among the injured are Countess Mo-rand, Mo-rand, Viscount Molitor and former Senator Louis Gautteron. An official statement issued in Paris last night said seventy-five persons had been killed aud ninety wounded, most of them women or children, by a shell which fell on a church in tin-region tin-region of Paris while Good Friday services were being held.