LAST RESPECTS
EXPLOSION VICTIMS BURIED
20,000 ATTEND SERVICE.
(United Press Association—By Electric .Telegraph—Copyright.)
(Received Feb F-10-at 1 p.m.)
NEURKIRCHEN, Feb. 14.
Women among thff thousands of .pitmens, t ino. 'the• street,Sj broke down when 15 black-draped horse-drawn waggons, escorted ■hy.'. 'Lirenien" with torches,. conveyed fifty-six -coffins containing the- explosion victims;, to the cemetery in the presence of Captain von Papon, and high official- 1 of the Lutheran ClmrchcdNA; Catholic Bishop officiated at the service in the public hall which was broadcast throughout the country. Twenty thousand attended. •'
There was a ten minutes’ silence throughout the Saar. The bodies were interred in two large, graves in the Protestant a;;d Catholic sections of the cemetery. There are still nine missing, and the injured total 161.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1933, Page 6
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