A Gruesome Affair.
There is grim humor in the latest story from the Western Australian goldfields, gays ' Oriel ' in the Argus. Typhoid fever broke out at the Murchison so badly that three doctors were down with it at the same time. It was found impossible to bury the daily victims in the alluvial soil on account of the danger of polluting the water supply, so that an impromptu cemetery had to be formed by scraping out the graves in the stony face of the nearest range. Finnally, wood for coffin& ran short, and the only resource was to make a levy on the hotels and stores, and knock up shells from old packing-cases. In the pressure of this ghastly business there was seldom time to paint the wood, or even to remove the original stencil marks, and one day a mournful cortege passed through the town bearing to their last resting-plac^ the remains ot a deparced mintr, whose coffin bore in bold black letters the simple legend, " Keep Cool,"
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 18, 21 July 1894, Page 4
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169A Gruesome Affair. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 18, 21 July 1894, Page 4
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