| Show Children Killed S In Dynamiting Of Schoolhouse SchoolhouseS S More Than Thirty Tots Perish When Deranged Farmer I Worried V by Taxes and Stacks Explosives in Basement of Building and Touches It Off He Dies in Blast Which Engulfs Michigan Community In Sorrow I BATH Br Mich May oy 18 By By The Associated Press Two Press Two ex- ex explosions believed to have been caused by dynamite which wrecked the north wing of a n consolidated con oli district school chool here this morning killed kille at least 33 35 children chil ren Principal E. E E E. E Huyck one teacher and an two bystanders according to the es es- estimate es- es of state police and members member of the lice Lansing fire de dc- department de- de who were attempting to recover bodies in the time I wreckage ge Twenty two 0 bodies had been re recovered re- re recovered recovered covered shortly after aner noon A short time before the explosions explosions lons wrecked the school house the farm Carm home and barn of ot An An- Andrew Andrew Andrew drew Kehoe nearby were blown up anti and destroyed by fire The body of or Kehoe who ho was Willi treasurer of or tho the school district and who recently suffered financial reverses wa was found lound in front of oe the school Ing DYNAMITE FOUND UX UN Sticks of ot dynamite found near the thee school house and on the farm by state police first led the tho officers to 10 believe that Kehoe was vas Implicated In the thee disaster Investigation by state police late lato today revealed that the cellar of or orthe the building was wired and con contained colt 5 more than pounds of ot dynamite The Investigation also allO revealed the thee state police said salol that Andrew Kehoe Clinton county farmer larmer who was cras killed In Iii the explosion lead had touched off oft the charge by firing tiring a high powered flowered rifle Into a n. box of ot the explosive ex In Jn the rear seat scat of ot othis his automobile WORKS wom s ix Is NIGHT XI GIlT Kehoe tho the officers said IJ apparently apparently apparently had worked during the night stacking the tho dynamite In the build build- building buildIng ing and wiring the charges Short Short- Shortly ly hy after the school sessions started 11 he ho was seen driving up In front of or 1 the thee school Ho Ito then strung a 11 wire the officers said seid lId from the base base- basement ment nent of ot the building to the tho engine I of ot his car Ills His fu cs lied had been crudely manufactured from rifle shells several of which were found I near thee the shattered automobile Witnesses ses declared the tho principal ran rm out from the school building apparently a to attack when f af f dw I the demented t farmer turned and anil fired his hL rifle Into the rear seat scat exploding the dynamite BURIED j wrecked l I Ithe The second explosion the north end ent of or tho the schoolhouse I burying children and teachers under the tons of ot debris State police were busy removing the tho dynamite which endangered the lives of ot bystanders and work work- I ers er I IThe The teacher Miss lIss Hazel Yeath erbee erbec was as In charge of ot the third Continued On Page tage Two i TOTS KILLED BY DYNA ITE Continued From Page Pago One grade The first third fourth fifth and sixth sixths grades suffered 1 the greatest loss when the walls crumbled l letting the ceiling of thu tho upper floors crash down on the lower 10 floors I As the tho bodies were removed remo from tho the wreckage they were ero placed in a n temporary morgue set sot setup setup up In the school yard while am am- ambulances ambulances carried the injured the number of ot which has not been es estimated cs- cs to hospitals in Lansing ten miles away LEGS BLOWN OFF OIT The bystanders who were killed were Glen Smith postmaster ami ani Nelson a resident of or Bath who were wele passing tho the school McFarran was Instantly an I died In a a. Lansing hospital from Crom injuries received when both boils legs were blown lown I oft off Among the of ot the tho blast bla t were Miss 1 Nina Matson Malson of ot St. St Ig- Ig nace Miss Leona Lcona Gutekunst of Ann Arbor and Miss Beatrice Sterling teachers who suffered from Crom minor injuries and shock State Stale police probing through the ruins of ot tho tue structure this aft aft- afternoon afternoon afternoon found several unexploded charges of dynamite concealed underneath boxes in the corners The explosives If It touched off oCt would have havo levelled the time entire building the tho officers said Wide distribution of or tho time dynamite tho th o police believed belle probably resulted In saving the cs lives of those who es es- escape ea- ea cape l ANGERED OVER OEn TAXES W. W G. G Conklin Bath deputy sheriff was W quoted quotel as saying laying that Kehoe recently had men men- mentally mentally mentally tally unbalanced due to a mortgage falling due which would have haves taken his farm from him Neigh Neigh- Neighbors Neighbors Neighbors bors of ot the farmer quoted him as assaying assaying saying that tho the school tar tar- tars ta s were so high highs ho could rould not make pa pay payment ment mont on the mortgage Kehoe's wife has been in irs a n hospital for tor several months Up lip until 30 o'clock this after artel afternoon afternoon noon the bodies of or 33 children had been removed ed from Crom the tho wrecked building State police estimated estimate that probably 12 11 I or 15 more were to bo be located About bout A 90 SO children were ere In the section of ot the building bull that suf sut- suffered the brunt of ot the explosion |
