FUNERALS OF THE VICTIMS.
PITIFUL SIGHTS. . ST PETERSBURG, January 25. The funerals of. many of the victims of Sunday's tragedy were held this morning. Pitiful sights were" witnessed in several cases. A man and wife carried between thfem a wooden box containing the body of a child which had been killed. Some of the coffins were borne on common cartel's' .sleighs, the mourners fallowing on foot, according to Russian custom. It . was noticeable in many cases that the usual pries^ and Ikon at the head of the procession were absent. No demonstration occurred, but workmen and others stood uncover- • ed in the streets as the little groups passed with their dead. -In the Volkoff cemetery, beyo-nd the Narva gates, 167 bodies were lowered to their last rest-ing-place.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8247, 21 February 1905, Page 3
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