CEMETERY ON FIRE.
210 GIIAVKS HH LINING AT ON!', TJMM. One of tli« cemeteries on llio ont- | skirts of Berlin was the seeing of an | extraordinary conflagration on a roeent Sunday, 210 graves being on lire ail one l ime. I'he lire brigade had to l drench the tombs to iirevent the I whole cemetery from being burned, j German graves are imili up two or I three foot hie; 1 .!, the portion above tin' I ground being a mass of shrubbery and I plants. Kxcessively hot weather preI vailed in Hoi din over the week-end. ! with the result that the lines and I (lowers on the graves were dry and in | a highly combustible state. I Fire having broken out in an a 1 jaesnt timber yard, the sparks law
into fho cemetery, and within five minutes hundreds of graves were , ablaze and crackling, and wooden crosses and other inflammable material wore quickly destroyed. People living in the neighbourhood were hor-ror-stricken at the thought that the fire might reach the buried bodies and convert the cemetery into a huge luncral pyre.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 67, 2 November 1911, Page 8
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182CEMETERY ON FIRE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 67, 2 November 1911, Page 8
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