Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-28
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. CREMATION AT BUFFALO. The First Body In The
 Retort: A STEAMER RIDING k GALE. Wind Blowing Sixty Miles
 An Hour. MURDER AFTER A WEDDING. Tlae BFidegFO6Isa Killed By
 A Rival
MURDER AFTER A WEDDING.
TI.e BFidegTO6Iss Killed Ely
 4 Rival
lsUFFALO,s FIRST CREMATION

RUFFALO'S FIRST CREMATION.
 In An Hogsff Rra Five Minutes a Body
 Is Reduced To AsHes
 BUFFALO, Dec. 27.-The Morning Express
 tomorrow will describe the first cremation
 in Buffalo, which took place to-day in the new
 temple on Delavan avenae The furnace and
 process is that of venfni, of Milan, and the retort has been constr6feted undef ths super vision of the inventors representGtfge
 Signor Gerronimi, who came to this country for that purpose. Although the temple,
 which viii be tbe most aesthetic structure of
 it's kind in this country is not yet Completed.
 Gerronimi's desire to return to Milan at
 once made test necessary to-day and it was
 made in the presence of three physicians
 and number af ths directors of the com
 pany and the undertaken who furnished the
 body. A little before o'clock the attend
 ants lighted the fires which burn in lttls
 inches in the main furnace and which set
 fire to the gas coming from the main gas generator in the basement. These serve to warm up the furnace pre- paratory to its bring subjected to the intense heat when tho bEintipHl combustion takes place. Half an hour later the main fire was lit and by 9:45 o'clock the furnace was ready for the reception of the body. At this time small volume of white smoke was coming from the main Hue. In the basement is the complicated system of piping which conveys the gases to the retort and to the Hue. Here nothing was to be per ceived of heat or flame except through little 1ofkf fo,. of air.
 A little after 10 o'clock the body wrapped in a shroud WIS placed on the car with it's head toward the entrance to the furnace A solution of alum was sptinkled over the shroud and everything was ready. The car was noiselessly rolled up to the furnace and by mechanism attached to the car the iron slab was moved from the rollers along to the others in the floor of the retort. No heat, smoke or flame escaped from the door of the 1etort as it was opened, in fact the draft was rather the other way. To the eye nothing was visible but mass of seething. rosy flame with tongues of vel Jewish blue fire coming from the hues at the other end of the furnace. The body was placed in the furnace at 10:f4 o'clock. And at 11:19 Signor Gerronimi announced that the was complete. Owing to the fact that everything about the furnace was per fectly new ten minutes were allowed to elapse before the was rolled up to the furnace and the iron slab with the remains drawn on to it. The product of the con- bustion was for the most part in the form of dust, but here and there were pieces of bone which retained a semblance of their form, but which really crumhled to powder. The ashes were slightly discol- l pred owing to the process by which the body | had been embalmed. The ashes were placed | in terra cotta urn. There was no smoke to l speak of and not the slightest odor escaped l from the main fue. Not at any time could | .hs faintest smell be detected by the enthu- | 'iastic advocates of the process who climbed l o the top of the fue. The statistics l of the experiment are follows: | Weight of body, 98 pounds; weight of ash l IS, 3 7-16 pounds; time consumed in the ere nation, one hour and five minutes. The | highest degree of heat attained, as nearly as ,ould be discovered with tests of various | metals, was 2,352 degrees Farenheit.