A QUEER COFFIN.
One of the strangest coffins ever told of is one for which the War Office is responsible. The story is that of a workman engaged in casting metal for the manufacture of ordnance at Woolwich Arsenal, who lost his balance and foil into a cauldron containing twelve tons of molten steel. The metal was at white heat, and the man was utterly consumed in less time than it takes to tell of it. The War Office authorities held a conference, and it was decided not to profane the dead by using the metal in the manufacture of ordnanco, and that mass of metal has actuall) 7 been buriod, and a Church of England clergyman read the service for the dead over it.
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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 125, 23 November 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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125A QUEER COFFIN. Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 125, 23 November 1895, Page 1 (Supplement)
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