BURIED 300 BODIES ON LAST SATURDAY

Henderson Times, March 25, 1937

Six miles from London on last Saturday the town of Overton was burying some 300 of the children who died in the explosion of the London high school building 2 days before. Some of the bodies were unidentified, and most were badly torn & bruised. It was estimated that some 50 would not be recovered at all intact, as they were blown to fragments.

It was described as the largest mass funeral ever held in peace time. Adults constituted almost the total of the people in attendance at the cemetery, as those children who had not died in the disaster were nearly all too badly injured to attend the funeral of the others.