Connecticut western news., 1878-06-20
A MIGHTY MAN.
William Campbell, the Scottish Giant an,
 Heaviest man i'm the World.

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 William Campbell, the Scottish Giant and
 Heaviest man i'm the World. O."
 The NeDcastle Chronicle gives inter- esting particulars of the death of MT. William Campbell, landlord of the Duke of Wellington public house, High Bridge, Newcastle, England, and widely known as the Scottish giant, who died at that establishment. He had been i'll about ten days, the cause of death, it is sup posed, being congestion of the lungs. The deceased was twenty-two years of age. His extraordinary dimensions soon found publicity, and attracted crowds of visitors to the levees which he regu- larly held in his newly acquired house. Campbell was one of family of seven children, none of whom besides himself are of more than ordinary proportions. At nine months old he weighed 56 lbs., which at ten years of age had in- creased to 252 lbs., and his bodily size continued to develop until immediately before his indisposition it had attained the following marvellous measurements: 96 inches around the shoulders, 76 inches around the chest, AT inches around the thigh, and 35 inches around the calf of the,leg. He weighed 728 lbs., and stood in his stockings feet 34 inches high 1; none of these startling dimensions have ing been appreciably dimsnished during the illness which ended in his death.
 Campbell, while confined to his bed. occupied room on third story, and overlooking an open square at the end of his premises. It was there he expired; and it at once became problem how to convey his huge body to the ground floor. The undertaken was called in to perform the difficult task. To carry the corpse down stairs, was, he discovered, entirely out of the question, and he had no alternative but to coffin it in the room and take other means to geSit out of the apartment. In putting together the coffin MT. Howe could pay no attention to conventional modes of construction. He was compelled, by reason of the enormous bulk of the deceased's limbs, merely to make it in the form of an oblong box. Elm, two inches thick was the wood of which he made it. The in- side he lined with thick sheet lead, and the outside with black cloth, set off by brass mountings. The inscription on the lid was of the simplest character, only giving the name and age and date of birth. .4.Istl !. 4
 When completed the coffin measured fleet long, feet inches wide and 2 feet 10 inches deep, and, but for the black cloth, it might have been taken for anything but what it was. The or dnary entrances to the Duke of Yelling ton Inn were not wide enough to admit of it's passage through them, and it was not until the window of the room in which the body lay had been removed and portion of the brick work knocked away. that the body could be got into the house. Hundreds of persons on Monday night saw the coffin hoisted to the apart ment by means of block and tackle, and many speculated ss to how, with the added weight of the deceased (728 pounds), it would be lowered again to the street ' ~
 On: the following morning great crowds squeezed their way into the High Bridge to witness the descent of the coffin. The operation had for them an absorbing interest. From the upper most part of the breach in the brick work five balks of timber, placed one on top of another, projected, and around this was fixed very strong chain with tackling attached. From the level of the floor of the room projected other stout pieces of timber, along which the coffin was slid, being partially suspended the while by the chain. It was an anxious moment when the timbers slightly bent under the ponderous weight, and not few turned away their heads, fearful of mishap. The meas- ures that had been devised, however, proved themselves equal to the strain put upon them, and the coffin, which the undertaken states, weighed, with the body, not less than 8 ton, was safely de- posted on the vehicle in waiting. The undertaken had, without success, searched the town round for suitable conveyance, there being no hearse capa- cious enough for the purpose. and had at length to content himself with an or dinary dorry. This was draped with black cloth to make it look as decent as possible. It was found none too large, and anything of weaker construction would have proved insufficient. About two hours were occupied-fro ten to twelve o'clock in lowering the coffin to the dorry, and during the whole of that time the thoroughfare was packed with men, women and children. For two hours more the great black box, con- taining all that was left of the celebrated giant, lay upon the dorry, which was standing in 8 corner of the square, and during the whole time there was con- stantly increasing crowd wedging their way into the High Bridge to get a glimpse oft. ..H. All About Earthduakes. 7,
 An interest," ng paper on earthquakes in Japan was lately read before the Asia.