A Fearful, Skhit.—On Saturday a ghastly spectacle was 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 dancing, gleaming and swamping on the bosom of the Mississippi, river. This solemn voyage of death and awful procession of the dead over the glassy waves of the treacherous river of death, was explained by the fact that the graves of the cholera victims at Arsenal island have been invaded by the current of the river, and the graves opened, allowing the coffins and uncoffined dead to float away toward j>ixie. None of them reached Memphis, as it is supposed the coffins were caught at Cairo to see what was in them.— Memphis Avalanche, April 22nd.
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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 324, 14 August 1868, Page 3
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