Local and Out of Town Undertakers Work All Night and Most of Sunday
When day dawned on Canonsburg Sunday morning a thick fog hung over the town and valley, symbolic of the gloom into which the community was hurled last night. The fog soon vanished, not the gloom, the weeping and the anguish of dear ones mourning their loss, of mothers weeping for their children, of wives made widows, of husbands made wifeless.
Many people did not sleep in Canonsburg last night -- many, indeed didn't attempt it. Pike street all night was a busy street, and automobiles bearing physicians were darting here and there. At the undertaking rooms work went on all night and preparing the bodies for burial was not completed until late in the morning.
T. C. Bebout came from Washington, C. C. Fulton from Carnegie and assisted the local undertakers. Others also helped. There was no sleep for them last night or today.
The morning train from Pittsburg Sunday brought a consignment of caskets, there not being enough on hand to meet the demand. This consignment was distributed between the two local undertaking rooms.
No attempt was made to remove any of the bodies from the undertaking rooms until after Coroner James T. Heffran and a jury empanelled by him had viewed the bodies where they lay in the morgues.