The Erie Daily Times, May 20, 1927

Bath Today Prepares to Bury Its Dead

Funerals of Blast Victims to Continue Saturday, Sunday

By Foster Eaton
United Press Staff Correspondent

Bath, Mich., May 20. - Bath prepared Friday to bury the victims of Andrew 
Kehoe's insanity.

More than a score of funeral services were to be held here and in surrounding 
townships - services over children's caskets in almost every case.

44 Death Toll

The death list from Wednesday's dynamiting of the Bath school had increased to 
44 and of the 36 injured still in hospitals, a few were not expected to live.

Only one consolation came to the stricken town.  Its tragic plight had touched 
the heart of Michigan.  The state, responding to an appeal of Gov. Fred W. Green,
was raising a fund to remedy the material damage wrought to save the community
from bankruptcy.

So great was the grief of the community that it was found impossible to make 
plans for a community funeral, and it was expected services for the dead would 
continue Saturday and Sunday.