The $47 million fund created to help victims of the Boston Marathon bombing received a rash of last-minute applications Friday — 175 were filed by midday — ahead of Saturday's deadline. “We knew they’d all come in, and we knew they’d come in at the end," said Camille Biros, the deputy fund administrator for The One Fund Boston. A lawyer overseeing the payments from the fund told The New York Times that he expected a total of 250 applications. Besides the injured, families of four people killed — three by the blasts and one, a campus police officer, by the suspects days later — are eligible for payments. It’s not clear if those four families had applied. The fund has said that it will prioritize claims for deaths, double amputees and victims who sustained brain damage, followed by single amputees and then people whose injuries required an overnight hospital stay.
