PAISLEY DISASTER
FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS PATHETIC MORTUARY SCENES VOLUNTEER WORKERS BREAK DOWN. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) Received 1.3 Q p.m. to-day. LONDON. Jan. 2. The Paisley Town Councillors personally visited the homes of bereaved parents, to inquire if a* mass public funeral was desired. It was decided that it would be better for the patents to carry out their own arrangements, the council merely providing the needy with grave sites. . , There were pathetic scenes at the mortuary when many volunteers encraved iu preparing for t-lio sbunal of tiio bodies of little victims broke down under the ordeal- and had. to he replaced by others. , ~ Hearses conveying the bodies to their homes passed between long lines of weeping men and women. All the injured are progressing except one with a fractured skull, whose condition is critical „ a(VV , The relief fund has reached Li WO. including a gift of £IOOO from a Paisley draper. , Five families lost two or more children.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 3 January 1930, Page 9
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161PAISLEY DISASTER Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 3 January 1930, Page 9
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