Eureka Reporter | 1905-03-31 | Page 2 | Brockton's Dead Laid to Rest

brockton a dead laid to rest public funeral services service were held thursday at brockton mass for more than two score of persons who lost their lives in the explosion and fire which created the greatest ca lamity in the history of the city and one of the greatest new england has ever known twenty thousand ot of brockton Brock tons s inhabitants work in the great shoe factories of the city and all that vast number joined in the public manifestation of sorrow sixty factories closed their doors business 60 tar far as possible was suspended