OCR Text |
Show FOR MREDS Burial of Victims of Explosion i in Halifax Was Begun There- Today. HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. 10. Burial of the victims of the explosion and fire here Thursday was begun today. "Men wanted immediately at Fair-view Fair-view cemetery." This advertisement in the morning papers called attention to still another problem finding men to dig graves for the hundreds of dead. Health officers working in general co-operation with the citizens' committee, com-mittee, made it plain that burial must not be delayed. Laborers were assigned to the cemetery and men who never had expected ex-pected to do that sort of work assisted as-sisted in the task. Committment Rites Omitted. Little groups of sorrowful people went silently to cemeteries adjacent to the Richmond district, utterly wiped out by flames, and laid away thoir dead, without friends in attendance, attend-ance, and with the committment rites omitted. There were not enough ministers min-isters to officiate for all. There were not enough pallbearers and not enough hearses. The dead were laid away with none there but the folk from homes now but a mass of ruins. One general service was held for all. OO I |