A VAST GRAVE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 21 May 1923, Page 5

A VAST GRAVE.

BURIAL OF FIRE VICTIMS. j

BY CABLS—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT j

NEW YORK, May 19

At Cleveland, South Carolina, last evening, the remains of sixty-six men,

women mid children, who perished in yesterday's fire, were buried in one huge box, while four thousand people, assembled from miles around, looked on a grave measuring forty feet by twelve, marked cnly by simple floral gatherings from the fields. A brief service was read. The remaining victims will be buried this morning.