The Daily Notes -- September 1, 1911 OFFICIALS DENY THAT BODIES WERE ROBBED

Stories Printed in Out of Town Papers Are Libel on the Community

NO OPPORTUNITY AFFORDED

Stories are still being printed in out of town papers to the effect that vandals robbed the dead immediately after the fatal panic of last Saturday night. The Notes as already printed that there is no apparent truth to these stories. Burgess W. H. Dunlap said he never once heard of such a thing until it was printed in out of town papers. Chief of Police Swan was quoted yesterday to the same effect. While the belongings of some of the victims undoubtedly were lost in that wild stampede, it is as certain as can be that no one robbed either the dead or the living during those awful moments.

The story is a libel on the people of Canonsburg. Those who assisted in the work of rescue are not that sort of people, and even if there had been one such in all the crowd, he had neither time nor the chance to play the part of vandal.

The disaster was so horrible that to tell the truth should be sufficient without publishing lies about it. The Notes has at all times endeavored to tell the truth about the disaster and if there had been vandals at work, this paper would have published the fact.