A SECOND INSTANCE OF CREMATION.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 903, 11 February 1875, Page 4

A SECOND INSTANCE OF CREMATION.

A second act of cremation has been successfully |ieifornied in the same oven at Dresden iu which the body of Lidy Dilke was consumed. The occurrence took place on the eveuiug of November 6. The laxly was again that .of a lady, the young wife, ag<*d only 23, of a South Herman physician. Tlie ball around the furnace was decorated with flowers, and in every other respect the solemnity which should attend so serious a jite was duly observed. No clergvman could .feewever, lie found to take j>art in the ceremony and speak a burial address over tlie 4ead Va'y, ho H»*rr Siemens, the constructor and proprietor of the oven, delivered a brief but impressive S|a*ech, after whi h the coffin was committed to the (lames. The process of cremation was screeu.-d from the eves of the lady's friends by an iron dix>r, but a small number of phvseians and oth» r scientific men witnessed the operation through a slit in the wall. They descrU»e the s|»ectacle as free from anything offensive either to the senses or the imagination. The current of hot air burning up the laxly ap|ieared as a transparent flame of a pale reddish hue. There was no smoke or any unsightly transfoi uialion of the laxly. When the coffin was contained the body appeared in its natural state, then red hot, and at last appeared to la* of translucent white. From this it crumbled into ashen. r Up to the |ieriod of its entire consumption by the flames the process was merely as a rapid drying up. After se\entyeight minutes all organic matter was gone, And nothing remained but a small heap of jfciies, which was conveyed away iu an urn.