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Show Burial of Herrin Massacre Victims Told by Minister i Laying the report that scant attention at-tention was paid to strikebreakers in tho burial service following the Herrin Her-rin massacre to "reporters' inflation. ' the Rev. P. R. Glotfelty. Methodlsi minister of Herrin. Ills., who tor.', part in the services, has written to Mrs. J. Q Falck of 1131 Twenty-fourth street. Mrs. Falck wrote to the pastor concerning con-cerning tho abbrev iated service and he answered a.s follows I You failed to make allowance for reporters" inflation or digression Wi held a very nice service More than I hrt'i hold at times for other people The only change 'hat I made was th.''. I did not say: 'It pleased Almlghtl Ood to take souls out of this wdrld ' T did say, They had been taken or caused to go nnd we committed." etc. l onld you bent it and bo hlnl-t', Thej were not burled In Potter's field, but In a plot boucrht for the purpose, In tegular graves with good burial outfit" out-fit" Associated Tress reports stated that ' the minister after the quartet sanr, Nearer, My Ood, to Thee." delivered a prayer and In a curiously abbreviated I term of burial service committed the nodles to the earth but omitted to ommlt tho souls to God " I |