Show SAD SM T ASI Of BURYING DEAD or Of THEATER fiRE M I i Ch Charred fled Remains use Disputes as asAre s sAre Are Unrecognizable Carry oies Through the Streets I p B BOYERTOWN PA JAN 16 THIS THIS I LITTLE BOROUGH WHICH LOST ONE-FIFTEENTH ONE OF or ITS POPULATION TION IN THE OPERA HOUSE HORROR HORROR HOR HOE I MONDAY NIGHT TURNED TODAY TOI TO TO- I DAY TO THE TASK OF BURYING THE DEAD BECAUSE OF THE TUE CONDITION OF or MOST OF or THE BODIES THE BOROUGH AUTHORITIES AUTHORITIES AUTHORITIES TIES HAVE ASKED THE BEREAVED BEREAVED BE BE- REA VED RELATIVES TO BURY THE BODIES WITHIN THREE I DAYS AH All ni night ht lon long score scores worked at the Uie I morgues preparing the identified bodies I for removal remo to late homes or tho thai ten As early carl as 5 0 o'clock clock a long line lino of death 1 wagons moved pd here and nail there thero thereabout thereabout about the town distributing corp corpses cg and before nightfall most moat of the dead willbo willbe will willbo bo be read ready reads for interment Three Claim One Body There was a slight hitch in the work of removing remo bodies from rom tho the mor morgues through the tho action of Coroner forbidding the removal of any bodies durin during hi his absence This was due duo to a in the identification of oi the body of a boy There Thero were three e claimants for the body and all appeared d before the coroner core coro ner ncr for permission to remove it Each ono was pos positive ti o that tho the body was the theone theone theone one they tho were lookin looking for Ther Therefore fore to prevent mistakes the coroner issued the order Bur Burgess ess Koehler learned of this and immediately communicated with the coroner at Head Read Headin Reading Heading in ing where ho bo had gone eone on business Can Caa Havo Have Their Dead When it was sas explained that people who had positively identified their dead wanted the tho bodies bodic and aDd that bodies bodice odi in dispute would bo be held the coroner rescinded re ro- ro- ro tl his or order er Since then the th relief committee working work fork working I I jn ing in conjunction with t FI has s removed renio more than fifty bodies bodles from the morgues It is 18 a common mon sight to see ue men carrying carrying car car- through the tho streets charred chatTed bodies on boards covered by a a. blanket or quilt More foro than sixt sixty death certificates I were issued up to 10 a. a m. m and most of these bodies will be buried durin during the day most of th them m without any funeral ceremonies There is iR not a clergyman in town allo to conduct services 1 There Thero will be no DO services in the Lutheran Lath Luth eran cran church Sunday Sunda The Rev Rov Adam Weber who lost Jost a daughter bu is still i prostrated The Tho remains of his his child were removed cd to his homo borne last night Tho body will be he interred at Bon Bonville Pa this afternoon Rained Today It rained slightly this morning an 1 there thero was a 1 little all fall of snow but this did not deter r the tho work of digging graves ra cs A force of men Ulen started to di dig graves in Fairview and Union cemeteries t tories teries ries this morning mornine and the they will be relieved at intervals The borough has hUR decided to buy eight lots for the burial of the tho unidentified dead In the center of the plot sufficient sum sum- will be bo left for the erection of a monument The f F about the morgues toda today aro arc much tho the same as aM yesterday Day Da- Dat- Dat light found cro crowds dl uro around tho the entrances clamoring for admittance At 7 0 o'clock clock the doors were opened and anel the gruesome work worl of idE identifying the dead was again taken up It is is' be believed le ed that moro more than fifty flit bodies will never bo be ident identified |