The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1876-12-14


ter one o'clock
THE CHASTITY ooRTEeE
started through Boerune place, and thep
entered Schermerhorn street. Hundreds ct
men, women and children followed, rush
ing along the sidewalk in state Of great
agitation. When the hearses and wagons
reached Schernerhorn street they
we'e formed in parallel lines, and
Of an hour. Although the weather was
bitterly cold, and the cutting wind blowing
, . gale, the neighborhood of Schermerhorn |
street and Fla;bush avenue was crowded
with participants aud sympathetic specta-
tors, sadness in the faces of the women wait |
ing on the psvemen,s was very marx d.
The soldiers who were awaiting orders to |
move, suffered intensely from the cold. II
was 20 minutes to two when
THE ORDER TO MARCH
WAS given. The procession Immediately |
/; moved from the head OF Schemerhorn street |
into Flatbush avenue, amid general mourn |
| ing, and timed by the measured roll OF |
drums, and the itful sobbing Of almost |
broken hearts within the houses and out |
side. Far along the wide avenue, and |
across Broad street, many an eye was
moist, and many lip quivering as the dead
were
BORNE TO GREENWOOD,
leaving behind them sacred memories and |!
cruel poverty, which will not coon be ei- |
faced, and by their very stiffness ard seclu- |
sion appealing more loudly than the noise
Of words in behalf of their stricken and
furnishing loved ones, and Tor a wise AMI
generous charity. Compared with other
funeral professions, the great procession OF
to-day had
MANY CHARACTERISTICS
of its own in the number and appearance
Of the many crisped and dismembered
FORMS Occupants iof the carriages-all Of
them the nearest friends Of the dead-none
of them, as is so often the case, distant re-
latives and mere cquaintances. with tear
less and conventional sadness were distinct
and terrible features. But one feature
which pervaded the scene and lent to it =
distinctive and deeply touching significance,
we've the manifestations Of popular sympa-
thy and sorrow, with which the commune
ty had been afflicted, and sadness was COM
mon. Many of private and almost all Of
the public buildings were heavily draped.
All flags were at half-mast, and torn BY the
wind almost into shreds, as if the great &C.
4 u
could ever render. An immense crowd had
assembled in Flatbush avenue, jus. beyond
its junction with Schermerhorn street, and
as the cortege filed into the formers thor
oushfare, the great mass of humanity
moved with it. Intensely cold weather
seemed now to have little or no
effect on the people, there were men, wo-
men and children completely blocking up
| 4 ho a nd psrfI in ho xrPla
way The police kept wide space open
for the procession, which moved elowly up
the avenue, the people pressing on and en-
deavoring, apparently, to approach as near
ly as possible to the hearse, and wagons
bearing fragmentary rem aims of victims Of
the play house tragedy. Windows of
houses were filled with spectators. and
far ahead along the avenue was black with
human beings. Arriving at Sixth avenue,
the column proceeded down that avenue,
passed private residences, with their peo-
pied windows, court-y ards and troops. A
vast crowd accompanied the procession
which then turned into Third street and
moved down toward Fourth avenue. There
was perfect gale blowing, and when tine |
procession reached Fourth avenue immense |
clouds of dust were driven across its dreary |
path, and progress was made with consid- |
cradle difficulty thence the line Of march |
was continued TO Twentv-6fth street, and |
up Twenty fifth to Greenwood, the beauti- |
full city Of the dead. There was tremen- |
dous crowd at Greenwood, and as the cor
tege passed through the gate the bell in |
the tower tolled mourrfully. On either |
side, along the pathways, on the hilisides,
and invading private plots, the people
were gathered. Turning to the left, the fu-
neral party proceeded TO Battle ave where,
about 500 yards from the entrance OF the |
cemetery, q trench had been prepared for
the reception Of the dead. A great crowd |
was near, and just within the cemetery
they were formed about the vast grave, the
site being on the slope Of the hill, and
completely exposed to the cold, which was
almost in sufferable. but still people held
their places. There was no delay in re-
moving the bodies from the hearses and
wagons and depositing them in the regular
trench. Then
THE SERVICES
we're begun. The Rev. Noah H. Echenck
read the beautiful burial services of the
Episcopal church, which were listened to
attentively by those who were within
reach Of his voice. There was an
ISENPRESSlBLE SADNESS
mingled with the solemuity Of the scene
Hundreds Of people wept, the tears freezing
on their cheeks as they issued from their
eyes. After the reading OF the services, the
Rev. A. p. Putnam, of!the Unitarian Church
Of Our Saviour, addressed the assemblage.
The Rev. A. Stewart Walsh, Baptist cler-
gyman, offered fervent prayer at the con-
clusion of Mr.. Putnam's remarks, and the
services were then brought to a close with q
benediction by the Rev. Joseph ODell.
Previous to the
DISMISSAL OF THE AssHMBLAGE
the choral societies sang . hymn. The
people then departed, and all was ended,
except the enduring agony Of the widow and
orphan.
HORRIBLE DETAILS.
NEW YORK, December THE descrip-
tion given by persons who were in the gal
lery OF the Brooklyn theatre at the time Of
the disaster is heartrending and horrible
Alfred A Jones gives the following account
of the scene: l was seated next t. the
front row, but, seeing that something was
wrong on the stage, moved up to the en-
trance OF the tier While my back was
turned shrieks we're heard, and the mass of
people in the gallery arose in wild confu-
sion. cannot describe the scene as it was.
They were climbing over seats, gripping
each other by the clothes, and struggling
frantically TO get ahead OF one another.
saw one man smash . fellow in the face .
who would not yield to him in the passage, !,
and big, powerful woman tore her way
through and came toward me with scarcely .
any clothes on her back and with
BLOOD STREAMING FROM HER NosTRIIs.
Two decent-lookIng boys got together in
the front row, and l saw them clambering
over seats and squeezing their bodies ,
through the crowd. One Of them was ,
thrown down, and the other turned and !
called him wildly BY name. got down
among the first that escaped, and didn't !
wait to see what happened.
ANOTHER.
A tall, stout man, who said he was q
gave . very vivid description Of
the scene. "When the uproar began" be Z
said, Il was seated in the aisle, about the Q
middle Of the gallery, and three or four c
seats from the front. never saw any
thing like it. All the people in the gal {
lefy seemed to be crowding one on top of
another. There were men there who SEEM
ed perfectly frantic. The yells and shrieks {
1 shall never forget to my dying day. Ny 9
wife is down stairs one man cried out. 1et q
me get her outv We're all safe if you only
be orderly another cried. At the same
time, however, he was making the most !
A. Il