Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-01-09
CREMATION IN BUFFALO.
Ihe.First Corpse Reduced to Ashes in the
New RetOrt.

The. First Corpse Reduced to Ashes in tn
New Retort.
Buffalo, December 3O.-The first crema
ton in Buffalo took place to-day in tn
new temple, on Delavana avenue. tn
urnsoe and process is that of Venini o
Milan. The retort has been constructs
under supervision ofthe inventors repre-
sentative Signor Gernomini, who came t.
this country for that purpose.
Although the temple, which will be tn
is not completed, Gernomini's desire to re-
turn to Milan at once made q test necessary
to-day and it was made in the presence O
three ply sicians and number OF director
of the company and the undertaken VIII,
furnished the body.
A little before o'clock the attendant
lighted the fires, which burn in little niche
which are in the main furnace and which
set fire to the gas coming from the MAR
gas generator in the basement. These sci v,
to warm up the furnace preparatory to it
being subjected to the intense heat viii /
comes, when the principle combustion
takes place.
Hat an hour later the main fire in the
gas generator was lit and by 9:45 o'clock the
furnace was ready for the reception of the
body. At this time . volume Of white
smoke was slowly coming from the main
fue in the basement of the complicated sys.
tenn of piping which convey the gases to
the retort and to the fue. Here nothing
was to be perceived of heat or fame except
through little aperatures in pipes left fo1
the entrance of air.
A little after 10 o'clock the body, wrapp-
cd in Q shroud, was placed on q car with
its head toward the entrance to the furnace.
A solution of alum was sprinkled over the
shroud and everything vas ready.
The car was noiselessly rolled to the fur
mace and by mechanism attached to the
iron slab was moved from the rollers. on
the top of the carriage along 10 the others
on the floor of the retort. No heat, smoke
or fame escaped from the door of the re-
tort as it was opened. In fact the draft
was rather the other way.
To the eye nothing was visible but
mass of ssething, ROSY fame, with tongues
of yello ish blue fire coming from the
fues at the other end Of the furnace.
The body was placed in the furnace ct
1914 o'clock and at lilo Signor Gernomini
that the cremation was COM
pleted.
Owing to the fact that everything, about
the furnace was perfectly new ten minutes
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rolled up to the furnace and the iron slab
with the remains drawn onto it. The pro-
duct Of the combustion was for the most
part in the form of dust but here and there
we're pieces of bone which retained . SEM
blanoe of their form but which readily
to powder. The ashes sightly
lowing to the process by which
he body had been emba1ned, were placed
n an urn and thus ended the fnt crema-
ion in Buffalo.
Not at any time could the falntest emell
'e detected by the enthusiastic advocates
# the process who climbed; to the top of the
lue.
The statistics Of the experiment. are as
ollows; Weight Of body, SO pounds;
weight Of ashes, 7 16 pounds, time con-
umed in the cremation, LOS. The highest
egree of heat attained In the retort, as |
Yearly a. could be discovered with tests of |
arious metals, wa 1882 degrees Fahren-
eit.