Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-09-23
BOTH BODIES CREMATEO.
Ashes All that Remain of Emile Rossi
and Gustav Koch.
Now York Timesl


Ashes are all that remain of the bodies
Of the two foolish lovers who took their
lives az almost the same moment last
Thursday morning IN New York. The two
bodies We're incnerated SUNDAY az the
crcnatory M Fresh Pond, J.. l.. and sey-
eral hundred people We're attracted 20 the
grim little spot by the announcement that
such an event would occur.
The funeral services, which were held in
an undertaker's shop in stanton street,
were Of the simplest possible kind, as far as
ceremony was concerned. but they were
witnessed by many persons. The body OF
the man. Gustav Koch, had been lying at
IS Stanton street since Thursday, and ~
was the first to be removed.
stanton street, ordinarily q busting To-
calty on Sundays, was damned almost
from Orchard street 20 the Bowery nom
early morning 10y an excited. iostling crowd
Of foreigners, who never We're Tor moment
still.
TIE FUNERAL cOETEGE.
Eoch's body was taken away in hearse,
attended only by few persons, u little be-
fore noon, and was taken directly 20 the
crcmat0ry. Emile kossis body was taken
from 81 stanton street two hours later. Half
"A dozen carriages, containing the dead
girls relatives. members Of the Amberg
Theatre Company. Of which she had been
one: Sir Amberg and the Geistineer Quar-
telfe followed the black-plumed hearse.
The services which preceded the depar-
trte of the hearse had been very brief,
consisting simply of the SINGING OF hymn
hy the quartctte. and q very short address
br Herr G. A. friesc. The tuneral process
| sion proceeded 20 the Twenty street
| ferry. passing Amberg' Theatre on the way,
and went al rapid pace straight to Fresh
Pond.
The lismallittle line Of carriages reached
| bocrematory az about o 'ciCck.and AT once
the coffin was removed from the hearso ana
/ lowered 10 the floor Of the place. hoch ;
body had been put INTO one OF the Iur-
naces three hours before. and by that time
I had been reduced 20 ashes. Ihe girl ,
/ body was put on one Of the IRON rests, ana
within ten minutes from the time u nad
| been lowered from the hearse II was being
| consumed nv the flames in furnace which
adioined that IN which kOch's body had
| been incinerated. To-day the ashes OF
| both will be removed and delivered TO the
/ proper persons.
pIsGRACEPUL SCENES.
/ II would seem that something little
[ less like Sunday jollificati0n might have
/ characterized this ceremony OF cremation
/ We're 1t not that the crowd about the Gre
matorv Yesterday was IN every sense an
orderly crowd composed in the main oil
/ Germans and their wives, the scene about
/ the place during the afternoon, taking INTO
consideration the natural sOlemnlty OF the
/ occasion, would have been little short OF
/ diseraceful. There were probably nye nun
/ bred or six hundred persons lammedaoOut
/ the little building, and when the hearse
/ arrived its driver experienced considerable
| difficulty getting up 20 the door, through
| which the coffin was taken. The crowd
/ then pressed about so closely that the
men who picked .he casket up could hardly
work.
As soon as the body had been taken in
| side the crowd rushed to the entrance oil
/ the crematory and made it impossible LOT
/ the relatives OF the girl and other mem
/ bers of the funeral party TO get TO that door
except by the exercise OF considerable
/ muscular power. There was nobody 20
/ keep order and nobody to attend to thelr
wants Everybody was permitted TO do
! lust a. he or she chose TO do. AS soon rs
the body was fairly in the furnace the doors
of the building were thrown open ana inc
crowd swRrmed in, oyerrunnlng the Whole
place. The people handled the howers
/ that thoughtful friends had sent there,
curously inspected the empty CONN, trleu
/ TO peep into the furnace itself, ana all tne
} while laughed cheerfully. loudly NJ inter
/ walls. acting altogether as il they had been
permitted TO witness some kind OF Tree
show.
Not fifty feet from the crematory IS lit;
tle-beer saloon. and yesterday its doors ana
windows were wide open. IL was hlled an
day long by merrily-drinklag men and
women, and the tinkling clink OF their
7 glasses, The sometimes boIsterously uttered
toasts. the constant flow OF heer-ai seem,
ed strangely discordant in that place and
at that time.