Tough Chicago Police Weep At The Tragic, Tiny Bundles |
CHICAGO, Dec. 1 - (AP) - Tough Chicago policemen, big ambulance drivers hardened to their craft, wept Monday night as they came to the Cook County morgue. |
Fire had swept Our Lady of the Angels Parochial School on Chicago's West Side. |
The morgue was where they took the tragic, tiny bundles which were the human debris of that fire. |
Telephones rang incessantly as parents sought word of children who had not returned home from school. |
Bereaved relatives jammed the morgue, hopeful of not being able to identify a body but fearing the worst. |
Ambulances backed up to the rear platform of the morgue to unload blanket-covered stretchers, from which an arm or a leg of a dead child occasionally protruded. |
Ambulances were backed up 10 deep, as drivers waited to unload their victims and return to the scene of the blaze or to a hospital to pick up more tiny victims. |