Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-12-14

and pryiDg 1t up, pulled out the fortu- |
nate fellow and cOmrsde. t..--.-
A corpse on which last evening lay
some money-three silver coins, q half
dollar, a quarter dollar and q five cent
piece-appeared this morning bereft of
the coins.
The public funeral of the identified
dead will take place on Saturday
instead of Sunday, as previously an
announced. Memorial services will be
held on Sunday.
At noon tomorrow the militia will
assemble on Schermerhorn street, the
right resting on Flatbush avenue. The
procession will move at o'clock. The
services in the cemetery will consist of
prayers, addresses and singing by cho-
raj societies.
The bodies will be taken from the
two m0rgues by the undertakers, with
out special ceremony and carried, each
coffin in a separate vehicle, to the place
of assembly on Schermerhorn street,
which will be kept free from ordinary
travel while the cortege is forming.
Places of business will be closed be-
tween the hours of and Pm.
The lot in the cemetery is on the
summit Of an elevation, is circular and
nearly sixty feet in diameter; the rise
from the circumference to the center
is about two feet. The ground was
presented by the Cemetery Assoeia-
tion, and the plan of the arrangement
of the coffins was made by Comptroller
Perry. In order that the services may
not be narred by the presence of any
sort OF hill of fresh earth thrown up By
the grave diggers, Comptroller Perry
volunteers 10 have all the earth carted
away and afterwards carted back again
A circular trench Ia feet wide will bs
dug completely around the inside o.
the circumference. This will leave the
center plot for the Monument about
} feet in diameter. In the trench thl
bodies. will be laid with the feet to
5 wards the centre, and as close as may
; be necessary. The woEkmen are busily
engaged digging the trench today
The lot is on Battle avenue, near tn,
exit for funerals. All coffins are to b,
alike; they will be plain but tasteful il
3 cOnstruction, the only ornament be il
a double row of diamond headed tacks
3 1t is supposed that not more than on,
D hundred vehicles will be needed
g About 5000 infantry, under the com
I mand Of Gen. Thomas s. Dankin, viii
: form the escort.
Mr.. Harry s. Griffith, who was il
t the dress circle with his wife, writes +
!. Fire Marshal Ready, saying, we wer
: the last to leave our seats; we tried t
Il escape by the doorway In the corne
e near where we were sitting, over whicI
e were the words, exit to johnson street
5 we were driven back by the smoke am
i fire that was making its way thrOug
e the partition, and when we turne
around to go toward the main en-
8 trance, all the people in tie. dress cicl
had got into the lobby. but found
e was blocked and that we could get n
b further At that moment we wer
II overwhelmed by the smoke, and afte
e being nearly sutfocated we escaped.
u am sure there was 10 one in the dres
i circle behind US, and with the excel
d tion of a female lying on the stairs, an
" over whom / fell coming down stair.
d there were no females along the fir:
; landing when brought my wife dowr
n The story TO the effect that some I
e the officers of the first precinct ,
g. Brooklyn had refused to allow certai
o men to escape by means of the gratin
e from the basement of the theatre du
" ing the fire is most emphatically col
tradicted by CAPT. Smith and his dept
& ties. They say that women were rec
/. cued through the grating in question
)i that they were unaccompanied. The
l. alse declared that this part of the Thea
e tre was searched by the firemen afte
3 the alarm had been given and wa
e found to be empty.
el Altogether 298 bodies have bee
i taken from the burned theatre, and
el the list of missing is correct, the burr
It ed bodies of seventy persons must sti
It be in the ruins.