A gliaatly spectacle was recently witnessed near St. Louis which sent a thrill of horror through the city and makes all Christendom stand aghast. About one hundred coffins were seen floating and dancinj, gleaming and swamping on the bosom of the Mississippi river. This solemn voyage of death and awful precession of the dead over the glassy waves of the treacherous river of death, was ex plained by the fact that the graves of the cholera victims at Arsenal Island bad been invaded by the current of the river, and the graves opened, allowing the coffins ami nncoflined dead to float away tcward Dixie. None of them readied Memphis, as it is supposed the coffins were caught at Cairo to see what was in them . — Hemjihis A valanche.
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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 406, 20 August 1868, Page 3
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