| Show I SChOOL o Horror Scenes Follow Blaze BlazeI I At Graduation I CAMDEN C AMDEN S C May By 18 The Associated Press Tragedy Tragedy stalking in the wake of comedy today had ha burned Kershaw county into a county of mourning As A the aftermath ofa of a commencement play of the Cleveland school eight miles from here more than 70 persons in- in including including whole families are dead and many are injured I As A the play reached Its climax m ax an oil lamp on the stage star ot 0 exploded In an Instant the stage was a n mass of flames names Panic seIzed the audience of parents brothers sisters cister and relatives es of the graduating class who were there to honor the that had crowded the little auditorium there There was a n concerted rush for forthe the sIngle exit that led to a narrow wooden stairway The weight of the thema mass s was tae too much fo for tor the steps and they they- collapsed hurling scores coreIn In a II a tangled mass numbers being crushed to death In a 0 breath It seemed teemed to persons per on who she ho escaped the entire as wrapped rapped In f flames me Within an hour the buildIng was waa little more ns I than a help of ahe the th funeral P pre pir re of more than three and a half halt score of w county citizens IHY D nOl II lilT HIT Nearl Nearly every homo home In Kershaw county was tas IlS affected by the disaster Many Camden people had gone con to the and some som of these are arc numbered among amons the tic tic- vic victims time tims Five Injured d are in the hoe hos- hos hospital pital here but all arc too badly hurt to talk about it I ItI The Cle eland school chool Is ii located In Inthe inthe Inthe the center of ot a fertile but sparsely populated section The road leading to the scene Is little more than a aono aone aono ono one way path alon along alone tho the edge tf bf 1 II a plow plowed d field This morning hun bun hun hundreds of automobiles and buggies ere acre passIng to and fro marking the route to the th scene where the tragedy occurred In ln the panic which followed the explosion little effort apparentlY tas 88 made to fIght the flames which quIckly communicated to the dry timber of the th little foot 40 tram frame school chool building Mothers with 1 dill dill- children chil children dren droit In tn their arms nero ero ero trampled under foot Young Toune and old fought alike for tor edt evit IMPALED Il ON TIMBERS When the th stairway many sero ero Impaled on the th jagged ja timbers and others other were ere pinned do donn n by the th weight eight of ot bodies abo aboto aboe e them them Those who had bad made their tsay ay out of ot the building turned at atone once to aid the victims but bt they found little opportunity to do co o the only exits except window s be- be beIng b Inc Ing shut oft off SeeIng the th hopelessness of thel their position 0 a IL number of ot persons from the th windows suffering broken bones and ond other injuries Several Beveral mothers hurled burled thel their chil- chil children chil children dren Into enge eager hands h below belot belo Fort children 18 16 I men and 15 women IncludIng 5 a negro nurse Lre burned to death and two oung white men are missing and andin In some cases because all members or of o families lost their r U hites vesTo bodies remain I unclaimed TOD lOD Y Funeral services service for tor the tho victims o'clock tonight tol alIt III be held at six I near near the th ashes ashe of the building where they met Inet their death dalh Pres Free Present Present contemplate the tho burial or of ent plans nil all at the th some same amo time There was little mention of an InQuest Coroner Corone 0 L L DIxon Is lamong among monK those listed as deAd and no noone noone to act In one has ha ba been desIgnated lone his Place |
