ENORMOUS FUNERAL PYRE
Hakodate Victims Cremated KOBE, April 1. Hakodate is now the scene of another fire. Hundreds of unclaimed bodies are being cremated on an enormous pyre, on the site of which a memorial tower will be erected containing the ashes. With the number of bodies washed up from the sea the known dead now total 1839. Diiers are still recovering corpses. Wholesale inoculations against epidemics are being carried out.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 93, 3 April 1934, Page 9
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