LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7956, 29 August 1887, Page 2

LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

THE FUNERAL. The remains of Mr. David Ironside were interred in the Henui Cemetery on Sunday afternoon, when a large number of railway employees and others, headed by the Taranaki Rifles Band, svho had agreed on Saturday to play the " Dead March in Saul," at the request of some connected with the Railway Department, followed the hearse. The corUge started in Gillstreet from the house of Mr. Sinclair, a driver on the line, at about 2 o'clock, and proceeded at a slow rate to th© cemetery, the band, under the conductbrship of Mr. George Garry, playing the march. The route the procession went was lined by spectators, most of whom followed the cort&ge to tho cemetery. About 300 marched behind the hearse, over a hundred of whom had come up by special train at mid-day from Hawera and intermediate stations. There were also several emj ployees from Wanganui who had coma up to Hawera on Saturday night, so as to be in time to go with the Hawera people on Sunday morning. The burial per vice was read by the Rev. W. H. Beck, the Wesleyan minister, after which the Band played a funeral dirge, "A Garland of Flowers," and the "ceremony ended. On their return journey the Band, as is the custom, played several inspiriting marches, and on arrival in town were thanked for their services by Mr. Beattie, locomotive engineer of the Wanganui seotion. Mr. Paul, as president of the Band Committee, replied on behalf of the Band. The visiting mourners left town in the special train at a few minutes after 5 o'clock.