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Show MANY WEEP IN THE STREETS. Wnve of Emotion 8weep Along Lin" of Marchers In Parade for Victims Vic-tims o' New York File. Now Vork, April C Italn reduced to less than 7C.0O0 tho army of 200,-000 200,-000 workors who had plannod to march today In memory of tho victims of tho Washington Placo factory fire, but what tho storm took In numbers It added In solemnity. Tho demonstration will long bo ro-momborcd ro-momborcd by those who took part nnd by countless thousands who camo to look on, but who unconsciously found thomsolvcs Joining In tho wavo of emotion which swopt tho lino of march. Simultaneously with tho removal from tho morguo for burial of tho eight coffins containing unidentified victims of tho flro'ln which 144 llvos oro lost, workers poured from sweatshops sweat-shops nnd garment factories and formed form-ed In line. Tho downtown section was hoadod by B00 rncn and women, employes of tho Triangle Waist company, survivors survi-vors of tho fire, nnd when thoy turned Into Washington Square, whore so many of tholr comrades mot death, one young woman broko forth Into a wall that swopt tho ontlro throng. Monuwhllo tho uptown division had been trudging south nnd tho two sections sec-tions poured Into tho square and met, hundreds, If not thousands of bursting Into tenrs; many knelt In tho wet streets In prayer, and women and men embraced and wopt. Tho uptown warchers, flankod by spectators, spread back for twenty blocks and the downtown lino was fully ful-ly as long. Koch person carried a small American flag draped In crepo .Now nnd then tho lino wns broken by u bo-draggled bo-draggled banner lettered: "Wo mourn our lo8b." . ' Tho bodies of unidentified dead wore burlod in Evergreen cemetery, whoro sorvlccH were conducted In threo faiths, Jewish, Catholic nnd Protestant. |