Panic Among Mourners.
Pittsburg, June 15. While the fuheral of Mrs Bridget MeDonagh, of Allegheny, was passing' Eliza Furnace on the way to Calvary Cemetery yesterday, an explosion occurred in one of the stacks and a shower of hot metal and cinder came down upon the procession. Four of the drivers were injured. The hearse was badly wrecked and a carriage containing two children of the dead woman and two daughters of Detective P. P- McDonagh was set afire by the hot metal. Three horses belonging to Crea Bros., of Bellevue, were burned'and two of thoir carriages damaged. When the'Horses began to rear and plunge some of the mourners jumped from the carriages, but were driven into the vehicles again by the rain of fire.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 182, 9 August 1901, Page 3
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