SAAR DISASTER

Grey River Argus, 16 February 1933, Page 6

SAAR DISASTER

Funeral of 56 Victims 20,000 PRESENT. Xr N.Z. Cable Assn.) > NEURKIRCHEN, February 14. Twenty thousand people attended tb« iunoral of fifty-six of the victims of the gasometer explosion. Women, among the thousands of citj zens in the streets, broke down when fifteen black-draped horse-drawn wag gons, escorted by firemen with lighted torches, conveyed the fifty-six coffins oi the explosion victims to the cemetery, in the presence of Vice-Chancellor Papen. High officials of the Lutheran Church, and the Catholic Bishop, officiated at a service in the public hall, which wa * broadcast throughout the country. Ten minutes’ silence was observed throughout Saar. The bodies were interred in two large graves in the Protestant and Catholic* sections of the cemetery. There eire still nine missing and 161 injured