The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-10-18
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THE FUNERAL TRAIN.

Coaches to Look at the Dead.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, Oct. 12.-At $50
last evening the funeral train arrived in
Wilkesbarre bearing fifty-seven bodies.
They had been partially prepared for burial
and lay upon boards placed on the back Of
the seats in three passenger coaches It
was an awful sight, indeed, to look through
the long coaches at the bodies, each covered
with white cloth. Here the form Of a
boy OF IL years and beside it a stalwart
man.
AS the train drew up to the Wilkesbarre
depot dozen policemen were required to
keep back the frantic crowd of friends and
relatives who had come from Scranton and
Pleasant Valley to meet the dead. A special
coach had been provided for these friends,
but they insisted on entering the car con-
tanning the dead and were only stopped by
force and the efforts Of five priests who
were on the train. One body was removed
from the cars at Wilkesbarre. The train
then continued up the Delaware & Hudson
road to Miller's Mills and Scranton.
The people in the special coach again be-
gan to clamor for permission to enter the
funeral cars, but were again refused, it be-
ing alleged that no one had the keys.
Several who were in search Of missing
friends became desperate and soon broke
down the car doors and began frantic
search for their loved ones. Clothes were
torn from the mangled and scalded bodies,
revealing the gay uniforms Of st. Aloysius
men, cadets, and other members of socie-
ties. Those who knew their relatives were
on board also focked into the cars and be-
gan rearran ging the attire or coverings of
the corpses Many were distorted and in
horrible attitudes, and friends endeavored
to lessen their frightful appearance.
At Miners Mills the train stopped to
leave the body Of James Flynn. No lights
could be obtained and much of the work
was done in partial darkness.
1t was as the train drew up at Pleasant
Valley that the most heart-rending scenes
were enacted. Ropes had been stretched
about the depot and guards kept the i'm
mense throng back. The screams and
shrieks of stricken friends and relatives
were pitiful in the extreme. The first body
carried out was that of Oscar Gibbons, Is
years of age, borne in the arms of his stall
wart brother; then one after another forty
six white-sheeted bodies were carried out
and given into the charge of friends. The
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hoarse shouts and imprecations of the men
made terrible scene When all were out
the train pulled out to bear the remaining
dead to Scranton, Minooka, and points be-
yond.
The Inquest.
Coroner John A. Horne of Mauch Chunk
arrived on a special train with jurymen
from Mauch Chunk They proceeded to in
spect the bodies and then adjourned for
private elaboration to little hotel near
by, deaf to all requests for an open session
A Cyclone at Sea.
New ORLEANS, La, Oct. 10. - The
steamer S. Pizzati, which sailed from here
Oct. for Utilla, has put back, having
encountered cyclone 200 miles from South
Pass. She reports speaking the schooner
Clara l.. Dwyer, from Utilla for New
Orleans, which had lost her foremost. The
Pizzati will resume her voyage when the
weather moderates.
The Havana Cyclone Ruins Sponges.
HAVANA, Oct 10 THE recent hurricane
tore from the bottom and destroyed much
of the sponge on the coast of Cuba, and it is
feared that the trade in sponges will neces-
sarily be suspended for some time. The
latest advices from the interior indicate