Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-04-06
BURYING THE DEAD.

Cemeteries Filled With Half Hundred
Funerals Yesterday Large Crowds
Watch the Ceremonies-Carriages and
Vehicles Hard to Get-Decrease in the
Death Rate.
There were over % burials yesterday, the
greater number of which were directly trace
able TO the grip. The city was full of
funeral professions, cemetery gates were
constantly open, and tho slow. solemn notes
of the dirge were heard on every side. On
the hills in the suburbs of the city a score of
brawny grave diggers finished the epidemic's s
sad work. and turned the rough sod above the
remains of half hundred victims. These
mournful scenes have peculiar attraction for
some people, and the cemeteries were
thronged with curious crowds of
sight-seers. They stood around the
mourners listening to the last words over the
dead, and then turned away 10 watch the next
arrival There were several hundred people in
the Allegheny Cemetery during the afternoon
and they witnessed over dozen bur1als. st.
Mary's Cemetery. adjoining. had just as many
visitors and 4 stream of hearses and carriages
filed in and out of the open gates all day.
Out at the Homewond Cemetery there were
IL funerals. At the Southslde, Chartiers,
Uniondale. New Bellevue, Greenwood, Calvary
and German cemeteries one corpse followed
another to the last resting place III quick sue
cesslon. Wherever there we're funerals there
were crowds of spectators taking advantage OF
the bright day for . stroll and oil the presence
of death to satisfy morbid curiosity.
Some of Yesterdays Funerals.
The following are some of the persons buried
yesterday:
Catharine c. Axthelm, No. 50 Palo Alto
street, Allegheny; Thomas Brown, No. l647
Liberty street; Philip Albert Orth, No. IA
Ohio street, Allegheny; Mamie McMuliIn. No.
s. strawberry ALLEYS William A. Msssinsham' a.
No. eos Center avenue; Christina Kennedy: No.
CT Carroll street, Allegheny; Captain +. g.
Long No l9S Market street. Allegheny; George
S. Phillips. No. IS South Twenty-fourth
fHie'' nth Streets street: Timothy Mccarthy. No
52i Mcdonald street; Mary Ann Rupp,
No. 25oO Carson street; Miss Mary
Fitzgerald, North Highland avenue; Wilson
Porter. No. % Clifton avenue, Allegheny; Jo-
seph Proctor, Long alley, between Forty-fopth
and Forty-tfth streets; John johnson, No. oS
Veto street Allegheny; Mrs Mary Farrell, No
han. No. i0l Wylie avenue; John A.
Miller, No. 134 Irwin avenue; Philip
Duffy. No. 8 Pasture street; Mamie C.
Price, No. So Marion street: Mrs Jennie E
Crime Boquet street. near Sylvan avenue: Mrs
Laura Wright Ewing, No. lS2 Juniata street,
Allegheny.
There are 40 undertakers in the two cities
and everyone of them had as much business as
he could conveniently attend TO yesterday
Hearses, carriages and funeral equipments IN
general we're at q premium, and in many places
always a profitable day for those who have car
riages to hire and yesterday was exceptionally
SO, owing to the number OF funerals. Under
taker Flannery SAID he had enough funerals to
direct to keep him busy until Wednesday. Mr..
Upperman had only ono funeral previously en-.
gagged for, but three more orders camo in during
the day. Mr.. Beinhauer had several cases.
McCabe Bros, out Penn avenue, had all they
could do.
One OF the Largest of the Day.
The funeral Of Philip Duffy was one of the
largest ones out yesterday. Mr.. Duffy was an
old resident of the HILL and was an uncle of
Squire Boyle. The body was taken to St
Mary's Cemetery, followed by 80 carriages.
There was considerable difficulty in obtaining
vehicles enough,
Liveryman Boyle reports his horses all worn
out and everything that looks like a Carriage
hired out. Leslie, out Penn avenue, had a
number of funerals. T. M. Morrow. of Ohio
street, Allegheny, says there is no let up in
funerals. he had all he could do yesterday.
All over the two cities services were held IN
the various churches over the remains of dead
menbers, and the devastating effect of the
epidemic was frequently referred to in the
pulpits.
While there werc great many funerals yes
terday ther5 decided decrease in the
death rate, and the prospect of a let up in the
epidemic of grip The record of deaths yester-
day was much lower than that of the day before.