TERRIBLE SCENE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 48, 26 February 1908, Page 3

TERRIBLE SCENE.

Anxioiui mothers and fatners tried to force their way to the front; others, not less anxious, would not always at once give way, and for a time there was real danger of another catastrophe in tho public streets. Tho police guarding the building where tho bodies were first laid, as well as those at the mortuary, to wnich they >vere taken later on, had a most painful duty to perform. AYombn struggled through the crowd, and fell fainting at their feet beforo they could ask tho question that had fought for the opportunity of putting. Otheri gasped out their enquiry, heard the pitying answer, and shrank back weeping" and moaning to tho support of tho wall. Men wsrc scarcely less moved. Many, oven who wero not directcly interested, wero awed into speechlessness. And all the while the ambulances passed and passed again, carrying the victims to the mortuary, and tho hospital. In tho former, a small square-built, white brick edifice, attached to the hospital, thcr2 were four slabs, and on each of these lay four of the dead bodies. They had beer laid out and dressed by the hospital authorities, and they bore their names written on a small white card pinned on their bodies. All were robed alike, boys and girls, in white. All wore a "p>^£eful look. They were covered with The red hospital flag, with a white cross. Strangely enough, it seems as if the majority of them had died peacefully, almost smiling. The > were no limbs' broken — no seriour, bruises or wounds. Suffocation or shocit ended their lives. The child Johnson was about the worst bruised. All were identified.