He then returned to Bath and married Miss Ester McFarren. One child was born to them, Betty Marie, born February 27, 1921, and died December 28, 1924. This was a terrible shock to both of them.

     They worked her father's farm in Bath township until 1920 when he was appointed postmaster.

     Glenn was well liked and noted for his honesty. Because of his courage, he often put himself in danger to help other people. He worked faithfully in the wreckage trying to get children out until he became faint and realized that he would have to get some fresh air. He went out to the sidewalk and he was with his father-in-law, Nelson McFarren, and Mr. Huyck, the superintendent, when Kehoe blew his car up in the street.

     Glenn's right leg was blown nearly off at the thigh and his left leg had a terrible cut above the ankle. He was still conscious when help reached him. As the men bound his leg with a belt furnished by some one in the crowd, he nformed them when it was tight enough. He must have been hurt internally. The ambulances began to arrive about that time and they rushed him to the hospital. He commenced sinking and he died about the time they reached the hospital.

     He leaves besides his many friends a heart-broken wife, two brothers and two sisters. Interment was in Bath cemetery.

     Mr. McFarren was born in Washtenaw county, Michigan, May 25, 1852. He came to Bath with his father, John McFarren, at the age of fifteen and assisted his father in clearing up a homestead. On attaining his majority, however, he left home and started out in life for himself soon afterwards purchasing forty acres. After clearing and building, he purchased a second forty acres which he logged off and soon had under cultivation, one of the best farms in Bath township.

     In March, 1883, occurred the marriage of Nelson McFarren and Miss Ada Saxton, a native of Oakland county, Michigan, and a daughter of J. B. Saxton, who was born in New York and came to this state at an early age, establishing his home in Clinton county.

     In the family of Mr. and Mrs. McFarren there were born three children, Floyd who died in young manhood and Harry who has been a rural mail carrier out of Bath for thirteen years, except during the World War. He came back without getting wounded, except for being gassed. His daughter, Esther, was the wife of Glenn O. Smith.

     Mr. McFarren retired from the farm and moved into Bath village about 1920 where he had resided until he was killed by Kehoe.

     He leaves besides the two children, his wife, Mrs. Ada McFarren, and many friends. Burial was in Bath.

     June 4, 1919, she was united in marriage to Roscoe Harte of Bath. The first year of their married life was spent on his father's farm, later moving to their own farm west of Bath. A year ago they moved to their present home in Bath.

     She was a conscientious worker in school, church and social activities, and for the past eleven years was a teacher in the rural schools of Clinton County.

     She was severely injured in the terrible explosion of the Bath school. She passed away at the Sparrow hospital, May 19, 1927.

     Besides her husband, she leaves her father and mother, one sister, Mrs. Stella Schoals, numerous relatives and a host of dear friends.

     The funeral was held at her late home in Bath. Reverend Coleman of Dewitt officiated and Mrs. Mabel Hunter sang. Many people followed her remains to its final resting place, the Wilsey cemetery. Six old classmates acted as pall bearers.

     Hazel finished the grades at Weatherby school at an early date, and graduated with the class of 1924, at Lakeview High School. Her course in higher education was taken at Mt. Pleasant, receiving her life certificate in 1926.

     In the fall following her graduation, she accepted a position to teach the third and fourth grades in Bath consolidated school, at which post of duty she met with her tragic death, May 18, 1927, lacking just one day of having completed a very successful year of teaching and had already signed a contract to fill the same position another year.

     Hazel's one joy when not on duty was to be at home. Her thoughts were like this: It matters little, mother, where I am, or what the tasks my fingers find to do; new friends, new scenes, new thoughts though I may know, my heart turns, always, mother mine, to you.

     When she was found in the wreckage, there was a child in each arm. She was taken to Howard City, the home of her parents.

     Sunday, May 22, one hundred and fifty cars followed the sad cortege from the home to Amble church and cemetery, where interment was made on the family lot. The most beautiful blossoms of springtime were heaped upon her casket and covered the rooms at her home and at the church, sent by sympathetic friends from all points of the compass.

     Reverend Lewis E. Price preached the funeral sermon and paid high tribute to the splendid young woman who had laid down her life clutching the children she loved so well, trying to protect them from harm.

     Undertaker Bert E. Meier had charge of the arrangements. The Amble choir provided the funeral music.

     Mrs. Perrone was nearly one block away, standing on the sidewalk with the baby in her arms and another child by the hands when Kehoe blew his car up in the street. A burr about two inches square hit her in the eye, tearing the eye out and breaking the bone over the eye. Something hit her on the top of the head, tearing a three-cornered deep hole. Sixty-two pieces of bone were removed and a portion of her brain was taken out. She was in the hospital twenty-nine days. She is home, but a long ways from well. She can't do any work that amounts to anything. When she stoops over or moves quickly, she becomes dizzy and is never without a headache. Her condition is feared.

     Starting school at St. Ignace, Michigan, she graduated from LaSalle High School, St. Ignace, in June, 1924. She entered college at Michigan State Normal, Ypsilanti, September, 1924, and graduated, receiving a life certificate in June, 1926.

     Miss Matson accepted her first position as a Latin and English teacher in Bath and began teaching in August, 1926.

     Her right arm and left foot were broken. Four teeth were knocked out and she was cut through the lip to the cheek. She had cuts and bruises on her body, a dislocated ankle, and a lacerated tongue, which took seven stitches.

     She was in the hospital six weeks. Miss Matson is now living in St. Ignace.

     Miss Matson signed a contract to come back to Bath and teach this year, 1927 and 1928, but after making a brave fight, she will not be able to take her position before January 1, 1928. The board has secured Mrs. Sadie Richardson Trumble, who has been a teacher at Bath in Clinton County for many years, to take Miss Matson's place until the beginning of the year.

     Eva received some of her schooling in East Lansing and Ypsilanti, getting her life certificate from the Western State Normal at Kalamazoo. Miss Gubbins taught for three years in Ingham county before taking her position in the Bath Consolidated School in 1926.

     She has signed a contract to come back and teach where she came so near losing her life. The parents and scholars are very proud to see Miss Gubbins come back.

     He graduated from the Mt. Pleasant High School in 1923 and received his life certificate from the Central State Teachers' College in 1924.

     Mr. Flory taught manual training in the Bath Consolidated School, 1926. He is coming to teach this year, 1927.

     He was in the school at the time of the explosion, but was uninjured.

     He took the first eight grades in a country school near Bellevue, Michigan. He graduated from Bellevue High School. He then wrote a teacher's examination and taught in a country school for one year. After that he went to the Western State Normal at Kalamazoo, for two years, where he received a life certificate.

     Mr. Hugget came from there in 1923 and taught manual training and athletics for one year in the Bath Consolidated School. He was then principal for three years, lacking only two days, when the school was dynamited by Kehoe.

     Being in poor health for the last year, he has given up teaching for the years 1927 and 1928. Mr. Hugget is going to try going back to the Western State Normal to get his degree.

     During his work in Bath he has made many friends and I know that everybody will wish him success and better health.

     The children thought a great deal of Miss Gutekunst. Her room was right next to the part that was demolished. She had the children at the time in the back of the room telling them stories. When the story period was over, they asked her to read them another story. Thinking it was about the last day of school, she gave in to them. While she was reading the blast came. Had she not done this, it is likely that herself and about half of her children would have been under the brick wall that tipped over into the front of the room. It tipped over and broke the seats about half way back in the room. My boy was in the room at the time, but he was not hurt. There was one row of seats left ahead of his. It blew out the window lights and the plaster all came down. There wasn't any of the children that I have talked with in this room who heard the explosion and they don't know how they got out.

     Leona is still very nervous and is unable to throw off the scenes of the disaster. She is going back to college this fall and will try to teach after Christmas.

     I am not able to tell much about these two girls who were teachers in the ill-fated school at the time of the disaster.

     Herman Bergan, eleven years old, was in the fourth grade.

     He worked with his brother in the garden, but was more his mother's boy, seeing that she always had wood and water in the house. When she fed the chickens he was always on hand so that she would not have to climb up in the corn crib. He told her that he was younger and could do it easier.

     These boys left their broken-hearted father and mother, and one older brother. They are buried at Okemos, Michigan.

     His father often told him he would never be a farmer because he ate so slow.

     He was always busy at something. If not in school, he was playing baseball.

     Arnold wanted to go to Lansing with his parents on the day he was killed, but he had had whooping cough and had been out of school so much that they thought he ought not stay out of school any more. They were in Lansing at the time of the blast at the school.

     He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bauerle, one brother and one sister. Interment was in the Dewitt cemetery.

     He was in the sixth grade and his standings were always good. He was a great boy for baseball and it was said that he was one of the best players of his age in the school.

     Floyd was a good boy to work at home. He already helped with the milking and other chores. Floyd is survived by his father, Mr. George Burnett, five sisters and three brothers.

     He is buried in the Bath cemetery beside his mother, who died several years ago.

     He was in the fifth grade. Robert did not want to go to school. He would rather have quit this spring and worked on the farm.

     Amelia Bromund, born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was eleven years old.

     She learned very rapidly and liked to go to school. She was in the fifth grade. Amelia thought lots of her teacher, Mrs. Blanche Harte. These children are survived by their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Bromund, two brothers and two sisters. Burial was in Bath.

     At the time of his death he was in the fourth grade. He liked the Bath school and was a great lover of the farm. He already could harness the horses and he liked to drag for his father.

     He was a very mischievous lad and always seemed to have a good time with everbody.

     Burial was in the Bath cemetery.

     Cleo was not hurt in the school blast, but was killed when Kehoe blew his car up in the street. A large bolt ripped his stomach open and his back and spine were hurt. He was conscious until the very end and lived about seven hours.

     Burial was at Dimondale, Michigan.

     She started school at the age of five and was in the third grade. She liked school, and often cried to go when only three years old. Thelma told her father and mother many times that when she grew up she was going to be a teacher.

     Besides her father and mother she leaves two younger sisters.

     She is buried in Pope cemetery at Springport, Michigan.

     Being the only child, he leaves his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cochran, to mourn his death. Mr. Cochran was formerly in the garage business in Bath and after this tragedy, he sold out to his partner, Mr. Claude Porter, who still continues the business. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran have moved to Grand Rapids in order that they might get away from the scene of the terrible disaster.

     Robert is buried in the Otisco cemetery, Belding, Michigan.

     He loved to play baseball and was at it morning and night. He played that morning before going to school. The last thing he said was, "Goodbye mama, I'll be good." He was one of the last found in the ruins. He leaves to mourn him, his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cushman, and one sister, Josephine. Interment was in Bath cemetery.

    

     Earl Edwin Ewing, eleven years old, was born in Climax, Michigan, where his father was a storekeeper at the time, later selling out and moving to Ovid, where Earl started school and went for one year. Then his parents moved to Bath where Earl went to school. He was in the sixth grade at the time of his death. He was always a good boy to work.

     These pictures were taken on Sunday before he was killed, with a camera he had worked and earned. Earl took his father's picture first and then had his taken. They were still in the camera at the time of his death.

     Besides his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Ewing, he leaves three brothers and one sister.

     He was laid to rest in Perry, Michigan.

     Interment was in Bath.

    

     The girl's father, Mr. F. M. Fritz, was helping children out of the wreckage when Kehoe blew his car up in the street. A bolt hit him over the heart, going up to the shoulder, fracturing a shoulder bone, and then turned there and went down his arm part way to his elbow where it was later removed. Although three months have passed, he is unable to work with his left arm.

     His two younger children, Normia Jean, two years old, and Charles, five years of age, were sitting in the car. A bolt went through the back window by the two children and imbedded itself in the instrument board of the car.

     Margory leaves her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Fritz, two brothers and one sister.

     Burial was at Mt. Hope cemetery, Lansing, Michigan.

     He was in the fourth grade. Carlyle was very good in school and his report card always had high marks on it.

     His idea was to become a farmer. He dragged for his father and milked one cow and weighed the milk night and morning. Carlyle planned on having a nice garden this summer. He had already purchased his seed. He planned on going fishing this summer if he kept the weeds out of his garden. Carlyle always planned to have his work done first.

     He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Geisenhaver, one brother, Kenneth, who was slightly bruised on the head, and one brother, Jack, five months old.

     He was laid to rest beside his infant twin sisters, Doris and Dorothy, in the Gunnisonville cemetery.

     She lay at the point of death for four days. The fifth day X-ray pictures were taken. Both legs were broken in two places, the right leg was badly lacerated, the left arm was broken above the elbow, and the elbow was fractured. There was also a large gash in the back of her head. Casts could not be used on account of so many lacerations, so a frame was arranged over her bed by the physician as shown in the picture. Ropes and weights were used. At first they used thirty-five pounds of lead. As she improved the weights were lessened until she finally only had five pounds. When she came to after the explosion, she says there was a radiator hanging right over her but when Kehoe blew himself up in the street the radiator disappeared. She was ten feet in the debris.

     After three months of intense suffering, Beatrice died in the St Lawrence hospital Monday night, August 22, following an operation for the removal of a splinter from her hip. This makes the forty-fifth victim of the Bath school tragedy.

     She is survived by her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Gibbs, and a little brother who live near Park lake.

     Interment was at Chesaning, Michigan.

     Interment was in the Rose cemetery, East Bath.

     Iola is survived by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hart, a sister, Elva, and a brother, Perry.

     George Hall, Jr., was born October 17, 1918. He was very mischievous and never cared much about going to school. He liked excuses so he could stay out and play.

     These children are survived by their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. George Hall, and one younger brother.

     They were laid to rest side by side in the Mt. Hope cemetery at Lansing, Michigan.

     She liked to sew and made all her doll clothes. Vivian played the piano well but had planned on being a singer, as she said that playing the piano was too hard work.

     She is buried in Rose cemetery in East Bath.

     She is survived by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hart, a sister, Elva, and a brother, Perry.

     Interment was in Rose cemetery in East Bath.

     Percy is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hart, a sister, Elva, and a brother, Perry.

     He liked to do most anything, but drawing was his main pastime. This spring he drew pictures and traded them to other children for marbles and playthings. He planned on drawing funnies or something when he grew up. He was always ready and looking forward to Sunday school.

     He left besides his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. LaVere Harte, one little brother, Neal.

     Interment was at Bath.

     He was very interested in farming and helped his father much by running the tractor and by helping milk the cows. He liked sheep and enjoyed looking after the little lambs. He liked to do things that called for the use of horses. Gailand was mechanically inclined and drove the car when his people were with him.

     Burial was in the Bath cemetery.

     Besides his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Octa Harte, he is survived by one brother, Gareth, who was in the school but jumped out of the window and ran home, a distance of about two miles, and one sister, about a year and a half old.

     He leaves besides his mother, Mrs. Maude Harte, three brothers and four sisters. He is buried in Bath beside his father, Horace Harte, who died when Stanley, was about five.

     He was a great boy for machinery and seemed like a natural born mechanic. He could fix nearly any of the tools that went wrong on the farm.

     Besides his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hoppener, he leaves a brother and a sister at home.

     Interment was at Okemos, Michigan.

     Cecial was a great hand for horses and had planned to work out this summer so he would have money to buy lots of good clothes for this winter.

     He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. George Hunter, two sisters and one brother.

     Interment was at Laingsburg, Michigan.

     She was in the third grade. Doris liked school and always got good marks. She was a very quiet, well-liked, little girl. Doris was planning to take lessons on the violin at the time of her death.

     Her people live about one block from the schoolhouse and when her mother got there she found Doris hanging up by the legs and had a man get her down. She must have been killed instantly.

     Burial was at Bath. Besides her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Johns, she leaves two small brothers, a sister, Pauline, and another who is younger.

     Pauline had her right arm broken in two places and had to have a silver plate put in the right shoulder which will have to be removed in a year. The left arm was cut just above the elbow. Muscles were cut off that controlled the hand in her right wrist and she will have to be taken to Ann Arbor to be examined right away. There are not much hopes in her ever using that hand or wrist again, as the hand is apparently dead. She was bruised and scraped all over.

     She was in the hospital eight weeks and when she first got home thought she would not want to go back to school again, but when she found they were going to have a new school with a gymnasium, she became anxious for school to start.

     She had her back broken, three vertebrae crushed, a large cut on her chin, and her legs bruised. For six weeks she was strapped on a frame and now every day she is straightened up a little more to strengthen her back.

     She is looking ahead now very anxiously until the time when she can come home. She had one brother and one sister in the school at the time.

     Emma, a sixteen year old in the ninth grade, was taken through the window and with the assistance of a ladder she was helped down by the superintendent, Mr. Huyck, who was later killed in the street by Kehoe.

     Arthur, age eight, was in the second grade. He escaped with a crushed foot.

     These are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Delau, farmers of South Bath.

     Ida's picture is shown on the previous page in a hospital room with Pauline Johns.

     

     He was in the fourth grade and was one of the youngest in his grade. Being very active in school he was advanced from kindergarten to the second grade.

     He was fond of baseball and all outdoor sports. He spent much time trying to make something that he could get music from. He planned on being a musician or architect.

     J. Emerson is buried in the Bath Cemetery.

     Besides his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. James Medcoff, he leaves one brother and one sister, Thelma Irene.

     Thelma was born September 9, 1911, and she was in the tenth grade.

     She was hurt in the explosion in the street at the time Kehoe bew his car up. Thelma was cut in three places on the legs, and the bone was bruised on one knee. She was in bed for ten days. The car was about forty or fifty feet from her when it blew up.

     She was very frightened at the time but says that she is ready to go back to school and is not afraid.

     He was a natural born mechanic and loved nature. He had to stay home from school a short tune before his death with a bad cold. While he had to stay in the house, he built what he called his tractor out of some spools and old clock springs. He had it arranged so that it would run on the floor.

     Clarence is buried in the family lot at Laingsburg, Michigan.

     Besides his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell McFarren, he is survived by a brother, Arthur, who was in the school at the time but escaped by being only badly shaken up, and one sister, Cassie, age seventeen. She graduated this year, but was not in the school at the time of the disaster.

     Her sister, Ottelia, was eleven years old.

     Ottelia had her face badly cut and burned and her thumb nearly cut off.

     Another sister, Ruth, was eight years old.

     Ruth had a badly fractured hip and she is just commencing to get around on it at this time.

     Emma leaves besides her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nickols, these two injured sisters, another sister, and two brothers.

     Interment was at Bath.

     She was in the sixth grade. Elsie always planned on going to college to prepare herself for a teacher. She had often spoken how she liked the Bath school and her teacher, Mrs. Harte. She attended Sunday School in Dewitt.

     Elsie is survived by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Robb, four sisters and one brother.

     She is buried in the Dewitt cemetery.

     Richard was a great boy for machinery and knew how to put tools together on the farm. He could run the tractor. His father had given him an acre of ground to put into beans this year.

     A year ago he took all of his money out of the bank which amounted to about thirty-two dollars, and bought a Holstein calf from his father. He just completed arrangements for selling the heifer back to his father for one hundred dollars. He was very conservative and was planning how he would invest his money.

     A girl in his room said that a radiator fell on him. His skull was crushed and he was killed instantly. He is survived by his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Richardson, and two sisters, Virginia and Martha. Interment was in Bath cemetery.

     Before the explosion she met her brother on the stairs as she was going up and they smiled at each other. That was the last time she saw him alive.

     The other sister, Martha Harriette, a nine year old, was in the fourth grade. She thought she fell out of her seat. Martha tried to call to her teacher, Miss Weatherby, who was killed, but found she could not speak, finally, her speech came to her and she called to her daddy.

     Three stitches were taken in her chin. Her instep on one foot was cut to the heel, the other leg was bruised and raked.

     Pauline was a very friendly child and made friends with most everyone. Her ambition was to become a teacher. She was always playing school at home.

     Burial was in the Bath cemetery.

     Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Witchell now of Lansing.

     She is buried in the Rose cemetery in Bath township.

     She was very brilliant in school and had no trouble in making her grades. She got A's on every report card. She learned music easily but never took to it. Lucile liked to go to school.

     She is buried in the Rose cemetery in Bath township.

     His father was a mechanic at the state garage at Lansing. Mr. Woodman promised Harold that next year he would buy him an old car and let him take it apart and then he would show him how to put it back together again.

     He leaves his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Woodman, one brother, Wallace and one sister, about age three.

     Burial was in the Bath cemetery.

     These children were both born in Muskegon, Michigan. Their folks moved to Bath about a year ago.

     Lloyd's desire was to become a floriculturist. He spent much time practicing on his violin.

     Vida Marie Zimmerman, who is shown in the picture, was a scholar of the Bath school, but was at home sick the day of the explosion.

     Lloyd and Orval are buried at Mt. Rest cemetery at St. Johns, Michigan.

     Three stitches had to be taken in her knee, and both of her ankles were sprained. She had minor bruises on her head and a bad cut on her left arm.

     Norris Babcock was born April 18, 1916. He was in the sixth grade.

     He was cut on the head, hit on the back with something, and scratched on the face and arms.

     These are the children of Mrs. Minnie Babcock.

     While under the ruins of the school, he called to Earl Proctor, who was a short distance away and said, "Never mind, I am with you."

     He is having a lot of fun now wiggling his stub finger.

     He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Duwaine Babcock.

     Miss Barnes is a very popular student and was editor-in-chief of the Bath school paper and one of the honor roll scholars of the school. She had never been compelled to take any semester examinations because of her high marks. She was vice-president of the girl's club and had been toastmistress at the high school annual banquet.

     She was in the hospital twenty-four days and it bothers her some to walk yet, but she is anxious to go back to school and finish her senior year.

     She lives with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Barnes in the southeast corner of Bath township near Shaftsburg.

     Besides being badly shaken up she received several very bad cuts about the ankles from flying glass.

     Marcia is now well and ready to start back to school.

     Her father, Albert Detluff, has been the village blacksmith for many years and a member of the school board. Mr. Detluff has closed up his shop owing to poor health. He has also resigned from the school board as he expects to work in Lansing.

     She had one ear nearly cut off and a large cut over the ear and many cuts and bruises on her legs and feet. When found, both shoes and one stocking were off and her other stocking was in threads.

     She says that she is not afraid to go back to school.

     She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dolton, Bath thresher.

     Anna has been in the hospital three months at this date, but expects to leave soon.

     She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Braska, Bath township farmers.

      

     He had his ankle and foot broken and his arm hurt; his hair, face, eyebrows and lashes were burned. Raymond was in the hospital ten days.

     Iva Echstruth, a thirteen year old, was in the sixth grade.

     She was in the hospital two weeks with a fractured leg, a sprained elbow, and cuts on her chin and eye. She was unconscious until Kehoe blew himself up in the street.

     Marian Echstruth was eleven years old and in the fifth grade.

     She was shocked more than hurt. Her hair was burned. Marian was thrown against a radiator and something was thrown against her chest, but she was not hurt badly. She was in the hospital four days.

     These children are the daughters and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Echstruth, Bath township farmer.

     Besides her receiving minor bruises, her right leg had to be amputated below the knee. She was the only child in the school to entirely lose a limb.

     Josephine is now well and has a good home with her great aunt near Detroit.

     She had a very bad cut on her head.

     When the explosion came, she says the teacher said, "Run girls." They ran around the room, trying to find their way out. They finally, saw a light and crawled through where it was a little lighter and then somebody helped them out of the ruins.

     Aletha is now well and says she is ready to start back to school.

     Mr. Foster was laid up for about six weeks, and has not been able to do any heavy work since.

     Perry is still in the Sparrow hospital at Lansing, Michigan, where he will have to remain indefinitely. The doctors and nurses have watched continually to try and save his foot but at this time, nearly four months after the explosion, there is nothing certain about it. The last operation they had to remove new bone because infection had set in from the old bone. Perry, being a big, strong, healthy boy, has helped a good deal in combating the poison that might have caused gangrene.

     Since his last operation, which was about August 20, he has not been in any pain as long as he stays in bed, but when he gets up it seems to swell around the drain tubes and he has to get back into bed and have it dressed, so there must be infection in it yet.

     Perry has made many friends while he has been in the hospital because he is always good-natured and does not complain.

     Perry is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hart.

     She was cut on the head and wrist, a tendon was cut in the wrist, and her legs were scratched and bruised. Dorothy was in the hospital three weeks, but she is now at home and ready for school.

      

     His leg was broken, back and face were cut, arms were bruised, and he had a black eye. Ralph was in the hospital nineteen days. He is now well and says he is not afraid to go back to school.

     Helen E. Hobert, born May 6, 1914, was in the sixth grade. She had a black eye, her legs and arms were dug up. Owing to the excitement of the rescuers when they took her out of the wreckage, she was dragged over a timber that had nails sticking out of it and she was considerably cut and torn.

     They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hobert now of Byron. Both children say that if their people do not move back to Bath, they will come back and stay with their grandparents so they can go to school in Bath.

     P. S. That's the spirit.

     He was bruised over the left eye and cut on the head in three places. He was unconscious when taken out but he is well and says he is ready to go back to school when it starts.

     Carlton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hollister, Bath township farmer.

     Both legs were broken and one leg had a compound fracture. His arm was broken at the wrist. About half of his right cheek bone was cracked and had to be taken off. His whole cheek from above his ear was torn loose and just hanging on one side so his teeth and eyeball could be seen. His eye was lacerated badly, but now it is healed so you can only see a portion of his eye in the corner next to his nose, then there is a cataract growing over that. He is blind in that eye. Donald was cut in many other places, mostly on the back. He was unconscious for ten days and there were no hopes for him for over two weeks. The doctors say that he was the most cut and bruised of any child in the school, dead or alive.

     Donald gets nearly hysterical when it storms. He says he does not want to go back to school again for fear someone will dynamite him. He is in the hospital at this date, August 10, 1927, but expects to be home soon. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Huffman.

     A piece of glass or something cut a letter M in her head. Three teeth were knocked out. She had bad cuts on her lips, in her mouth and also under her arm. Many pieces of glass were taken out of her back and behind her ear. She was semi-unconscious for about three days and was in the hospital ten days.

     She is now home and feeling fine and says that she is ready to go to school again.

     June is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Huffman, Michigan Central ticket agent at Bath.

     Elva is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Hart.

     His mother was just waking up his father, who works nights, to tell him what happened and hearing a noise, she turned around and saw Lester in the doorway all covered with plaster. His mother first thought he was a ghost.

     Lester says he is not very anxious for school to start, but when it does he will be ready to go.

     He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George King, formerly of Haslett.

     Helen's little sister, Florence, age nine, was also in the school and received a deep gash in the leg and many bruises about the body. After spending five days in the hospital, Florence was brought home where she rapidly improved and now is ready to start school. These are two of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Komm, Bath township farmer.

     She had both hip caps crushed. Four bones in one foot, one finger, and her pelvis bone were broken.

     Although three months have passed, her foot still bothers her.

     Florence says she is ready to start school.

     He had his right leg broken above the knee and was scratched and bruised in many places. When he was found in the wreckage by his father, F. M. McCoy, he was buried in the wreckage with his head on the outside of the wall and the rest of him on the inside. Billy was in the hospital six weeks and two days, but is hobbling around in pretty good shape at this time. He says he is not very anxious to go back to school.

     Hattie Reutter was in the second grade. She came to Bath with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hall, when they moved here about a month before the school disaster. She was in the school at the time it blew up but was not hurt except being badly shaken up.

     These two little girls are shown in the picture with Mrs. Thomas Henneberry, 106 South May street, Joliet, Illinois, by the ruined school. Mrs. Henneberry stopped here with her husband while they were on their honeymoon trip through Michigan and Ohio.

     He was bumped on the head and back, hurt on the chin and jaws so he could not get his mouth shut for a few days, and his lips were cut.

     If the teacher had not sent him upstairs a few minutes before the explosion he would likely have been killed.

     Lee is the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Mast.

     He has been in the hospital nine weeks and will be there for some time yet. Both legs were broken in two places. A silver plate was put in the left leg. The right leg was broken between the knee and thigh. He had three bad cuts in the head and was stabbed in the back with something just above the hips. The seat of his trousers was completely torn away.

     He has still got grit and looking forward to the time when he can come home to go fishing

     His mother, formerly Miss Ethel Viges, has been with him almost constantly. Earl's brother, Ralph Edmund, was five years old and in the first grade. He got a bad tear in the right arm when Kehoe blew himself and car up in front of the school.

     He had one ankle sprained and the other fractured. His legs were cut and bruised, and he had a deep cut on his chin and forehead which looked as if they had been peeled.

     His father, Roy L. Reasoner, was one of the bus drivers at the time. Mr. Reasoner is now a member of the school board.

     Lee says he is ready to try school again.

     She was hit by something which knocked out four teeth and cut out a portion of her gums and a gash was cut from the corner of her mouth an inch and a half in her cheek. She was cut from her lips to her chin, cut on the skull and over the right eye, cut on the body and she also had many minor cuts and bruises. Many pieces of slate and gravel were taken out of the cuts and her left ankle was fractured.

     Lillian says she is ready to go back to school, but she wants to get her teeth before starting.

     She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Reed, Bath township farmer.

     He had three bad scalp wounds and a concussion of the brain. His back was bruised and his ankles were sprained. There was for a time that when he would look at one object he would see two. His vision is cleared up now.

     Oral is feeling fine at this time and says he will be ready to go back when school starts again.

     The lad makes his home with his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Riker, Bath township farmer.

     He had a bad cut on his head and eye, one arm broken, cheek bone fractured, and several bruises.

     He liked the Bath School and he says that he is already to go back.

     Jack is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Rounds. His father served as a member of the school board for three years commencing 1921. His mother had one of the school bus routes during l922.

     He was cut on the head and there were holes in his head that looked like nail holes. He was bruised and scraped on the shoulder and legs. He was never afraid before to go upstairs or any place at night alone, but he is now very afraid of the dark.

     Harold says he is not afraid to go back to school.

     He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McKenzie, Bath Michigan.

     He was nearly scalped, starting from the back of his head, and had two deep scalp wounds and many scratches and bruises. He got out of the schoolhouse unassisted and started for home. He met his mother on the street and did not see her until the boy who was with him called his attention to her. This lad was in the hospital two weeks and after he was taken home, he was taken to the doctor's each day for three weeks until he was out of danger.

     Ivan now says that he is ready to go back to school. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Seeley, Bath railroad section hand.

     He had a broken jaw, double compound fractured ankle, a scraped head and face and shoulder cut. He lost three teeth. This lad was in the hospital for six weeks.

     Gail is a great boy for fishing and baseball. When the writer was talking to him, Gail asked him if he would come and take him fishing some day soon. He thought they would have better luck if they went together.

     He had three brothers and one sister in the school at the time of the explosion but he was the only one hurt. Gail says he is ready to start back to school any time they make him.

     At the hospital the nurses called him their good boy because he was so patient. At the time of the school explosion, he thought the world was coming to an end, but it was not that that worried him. He thought he would never see his father and mother again.

     Lester has been making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Will Fredrick, east of Bath. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stowells of Lansing.

     He escaped with a gash in the right leg and the left leg bruised. He was bruised black and blue about the body.

     Although he was badly shaken up, he says that he is ready to start school.

     Cecelia had one ear nearly cut off, a large gash back of her ear, and she was bruised black and blue nearly all over.

     In spite of all this, she is wide awake and anxious to get back to school again.

     She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Zavistoski.

     Steve had both legs broken when Kehoe's car exploded in the street. A bolt passed through his arm above the elbow and just hung in the skin. He was in the hospital seven weeks, but he is out and getting around fine at this time. Steve has much courage and says he is ready to start back to school. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Stivaviske.

     She was buried under the ruins with another girl classmate. They had been taught in school that if they were ever in an accident and fast not to scream and make a fuss, so they laid there and cautioned each other about it. They could hear the working men talking over them and finally heard the men say, "I guess we have got them all out of here, let's go some place else." Then the girls screamed and the men kept on digging until they got where they were and saved them both.

     Her brother, Dean Norman Sweet, was eleven years old. He was in the sixth grade, but he was in the fifth grade room writing a test.

     He had a scalp wound, his left leg broken, and he was black and blue nearly all over. He was one of the last ones taken out of the ruins alive. The men had to pull him out and get away quick as the wall had commenced to crumble all around them. The children both say that they are willing and ready to go back to school.

     They are the son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willard S. Sweet, Bath township farmer and milkman.

     His scalp and lips were cut, right ankle bone bruised, and he was cut on the forehead. Seven teeth were knocked out. He was in the hospital one week and two days.

     Norman lives with his people at Park Lake, goes swimming every day and says he is ready to go back to school.

     She was cut on the back of her head, over one eye and also on her cheek and arm. Her ankles were sprained and her body was bruised. She says she was blown to the ceiling and came down square on her feet. She was writing a test when the blast came.

     Ardis is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Wilson, a farmer of Bath township.