The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-12-09
A Very Interestinx Escape

! from the flames was that OF one OF the
stage hands, Timothy Owen, who made
his way through an underground passage
to coal bunk under the pavement, and
succeeded in getting beneath the coal hole,
where his rappings on the cover attract.
ed the attention of some bystanders.
They saw the cover move, and prylng It
ug they pulled out the unfortunate TEL
low and comrade. A corps oil which
last evening there laid some money, three
silver coins, half dollar, quarter OF II
dollar and five cent piece, appeared
this morning bereft of the ccn.
The Public Funeral
of the unidentified ones will take place on
Saturday, instead of Sunday, as previous
ly announ ced. The memorial services,
however, will be held on Sunday. At
noon tomorrow the militia viii assemble
on Schermerhors street, right resting on
FAtbush avenue. The procession will
be in the following order: Police, band,
clergy in carriages, hesrses escorted by
military, relatives and friends in car
riages, city officials IN carriages, citizens.
The procession will move at | o'clock
The services in the cemetery will consist
OF prayers, addresses and singing by the
choral societies. The bodies will be taken
from the two morgues by undertskers,
without special ceremony and carried,
eacl coffin in separate vehicle to the
plaC Of assembling, on Schermerhorn
stree which will BE- kept free from ordi.
nsry travel while the cortege is forming.
All places of business will be closed be-
twer, ne hours of one and three o'clock.
Tn" lot in the cemetery is on the sum-
nit vi an elevation. 1t Is circular and
nearly sixty feet in diameter. The rise
from the circumference TO the centre is
about two feet. The ground WAS pre-
sented by the Cemetery Association, and
a plan for the arrangement of the cotfins
was made by Comptroller Perry.
In order that the services may not be
msrrcd by the presence OF any sort of
hill of fresh earth thrown up by the grave
diggers Comptroller Perry volunteered
TO have all the earth carted away and
afterwards carried back again. a circu-
lar trench fourteen feet wide
will be dug completely around the
inside OF the circumference. This will
leave a centre plot for a monument about
thirty feet IN diameter. In the trench
the bodies will be laid with their feet to-
ward the centre, and as close rs may be
necessary. The workmen are busily en-
gagged IN digging the trench to-day.
The lot is on Battle avenue, near
the exit for funerals. All OF the
cotfins are to be ahke. They will be
plain but tasteful in construction,
the only ornament being double row Of
diamond headed tacks 1t Is supposed
that not more than one hundred vehicles
will be needed. About 1000 infantry,
under the command Of Gen. Thomas
5. Dankin, will form the escort. The
line Of march vii! be through
Flatbush 10 Sixth avenue; thence to
Third street, thence 10 Fourth Avenue
and Twenty-ftth street, which leads 10
the Cemetery. The services on SUNDAY
will be held in Hooley's Opera House.
Park Theatre and the Academy Of Music,
the vocal music to be under the direction
of F. w. Lovojoy, and the instrumental
music under the direction OF l. Con-
teruo. band master of the Twenty-third
regiment
The Relief Fund.
The actors. masculine and feminine
with characteristic generosity, have VOL
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