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Show ! VICTIMS OF SCHOOL FIRE TENDERLY II TO REST '' No Cessation In Funeral Cortege j From Early Morning Until Late at Night at Colllnwood. 1 Cleveland, O. Funornl processions i 1 began to wend their wny toward tho cemeteries, on Friday, bearing tho battered and charred bodies of somo or tho 1C7 children who porlshed In Wednesday morning's ilro In tho Lake-vlow Lake-vlow school, Colllnwood. From 9 o'clock In tho morning until dark, thoro was no cessation In tho funeral corteges. Thoso who had no dead to mourn as a pcrsonnl loss stood by In tho streets with bare heads as tho grim processions passed. Ono of tho snddest funerals was that or the thrco children of Janitor Hlrter, held Jointly with tho services for thrco other llttlo ones. Mutterlngs 1 ngalnst tho Jnnltor could bo heard about tho village, forgetting, ns thtjy did, that Hlrter hlmselt was walking with bowed head and broken heart behind tho biers ot thrco ot his beloved. be-loved. A detnll ot pollco was placed about tho Hlrter homo when tho hour for tho funeral came. Fully 600 persons per-sons had gathered, but when tho coffins cof-fins wcro carried to tho doorway tho crowd spread and opened tho way for them without protest or expression of hostility. Altogether thcro wero fifty burlnls on Friday and Saturday tho grucsomo task was repeated. Sunday witnessed i the Inst of tho Individual burials, and on Monday the bodies of all thoso who nro unidentified wero lnld to rest with ono funeral. Testimony describing tho mad rush to death of tho school children was given on Frldny at tho continued session ses-sion or tho coroner's Inquest. Stories or heroism on tho part ot the women I teachers wero recited. F. P. Whltnoy, superintendent ot tho Colllnwood, 1 schools, stated his belief that no flro department could havo dono nny ef-rectlvo ef-rectlvo work nUer tho flro had start- 1 cd. Two of tho teachers told of their j unavailing attempts to open ono of , tho double doors nt tho rear, which i they sala was locked. Tho Inquest also dovolopcd tho fact that after tho first crush at tho door It was beyond human possibility to nld thoso whom j tho flro wan devouring. ' |