A Frightful Death.
A .fearful .death is reported m one of the late Home papers. John Church, eighteen years of age, was employed by the Portland Cement Company at their London works.* On the morning of Junuary 23 he gave. in his name to the time-keeper, and nothing more was seen of him until February -5, when, on opening one the chambers of a kiln his calcined remains were discovered. The boots found were known to have been worn by the deceased, and it was this which established the identification. There is now doubt that the deceased being cold and wet, crept into the chamber to warm himself. He .must, however, have been almost immediately suffocated, as the kiln was fall of sulphuric fumes, the fire having been lit the previous morning. Shortly afterwards, the liquid materials were poured into it. m the ordinary process of manufacture of cement, and the chamber was sealed up. Thus the body was burid beneath the liquid, and literally under- went a process 1 of crema* tion. The bones were- i completely white-, and all the flesh was consumed.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 133, 12 May 1883, Page 2
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185A Frightful Death. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 133, 12 May 1883, Page 2
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