The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-12-14
DOMESTIC NEWS.
East.

The process of cremating the body of the
late Baron de Palm, at DR.. LIE Moyne's Crema-
tory, near Washington, Pa. was successfully
accomplished on the 9th inst.
New York telegram says John Morrissey
has declared off all pools sold in his house On
the direct result of the Presidential election.
A large majority of those who persisted in
the Brooklyn fire were men and boys. Only
few women and children were losU as far as
known. Most of those lost were occupants OF
the gallery or third tier of the theater. In de-
scending the stairway they were met on the
second landing or second floor of the theater
by binding and sufocating volume of
smoke, and fell in heaps On the stairway.
This gave way under their accumulated
weight, and they were precipitated upon the
lobby on the first floor of the building. This
also gave way, and the entire body of men
thus entrapped fell victims to the flames OF
those who occupied the dress circle (ground
foor) and family circle (second tier) only
few appear to have been lost.
Mayor Wickham, of New York, has appointed
John Kelly Comptroller Of the city, in place of
Andrew FL. Green.
Such of the victims of the awful Brooklyn
calamity as had not been identified and claimed
by friends and relatives were buried at the
city's expense on Saturday, the 9th of De-
cember. From Brooklyn paper We CLEAN the
following particulars Of the mournful funeral
1.-The burial OF the bodies of She victims this
afternoon was fitting end to one OF the most
doleful histories of modern times. This morn
ing all the bodies in the morgue were removed
to the temporary dead-house in the, OLD
market, where there were in all 100
OF the charred corpses. A hundred collins with
German silver mountings were brought i'm
and placed upon the floor, and into them the
unidentified and destitute dead were placed.
Shortly after l o'clock the ghastly cortege
started through Boerum place, and then en-
tered Schermerhorn street. Hundreds of men,
women and children followed rushing along
the sidewalk In state Of great agitation.
When the hearses and wagons reached Scher-
merhorn street, they were formed in parallel
lines, and there was q delay of nearly three
quarters Of an hour. Although the weather
was bitterly cold, and cutting wind was blow
ing gale, the neignborhood of Schermerhorn
street and Flatbush avenue was crowded
with participants and sympathetic spectators.
The sadness In the faces of the women waiting
on the pavement was very marked. The soldiers
who were awaiting orders to move suffered in
tensely from the cold. The procession imne-
diately moved from the head Of Schermerhorn
street into Flatbush avenue amid general
mourning, and timed by the measured roll of
drums and by the fitful sobbing of the almost
broken-hearted people. Within the houses
and without them, far along the wide avenue
and across the broad streets many an eye was
moist and many a lip quiver1ng as the dead
were borne to Greenwood, leaving behind them
sacred memories and cruel poverty, too which
VIII not be effaced, and by their very stiffness
and seclusion appealing more loudly than the
noise OF words in behalf of their stricken and
furnishing loved ones for wise and generous
charity. Compared with other funeral pro-
cesslons, the great procession Of to-day
hsd 8many characteristics of it's own.
The number and appearance of the many
crlsped and dismembered forms the occu-
pants Of carriages, all of them nearest friends
OF tne dead, none of them, as is often the
case distant relations aud mere acquaintance
WIN fearless and conventional sadness, were
olsVlnct and terrible features but the one
feature which pervaded the scene and lent to
IL distinctive and deeply touching significance
was the manifestation Of popular sympathy
and sorrow. A community had been afflicted,
and sadness was common. Many of the pri-
Tate and almost all of the public buildings
were heavily draped. All flags were at half
mast, and torn by the gale almost into
shreds, as if the great occasion had .
right to all the service they could ever reDde1.
AS the cortege passed through the gate the
DELL in the tower tolled mournfuIy. On either