Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1883 — Burning the Dead. [ARTICLE]

Burning the Dead.

When the Belgian chemist, Mr. Creteur, Avas charged Avitli the purification of tlie battlefield at Sedan he Avas compelled to resort to cremation in order to dispose of the heaps of half-covered bodies. Not one case of illness occurred among his 220 Avorltmen, though they were at work under a blazing sun. After the battles of Worth and Gravelotte and the tAvo sieges of Paris, the bodies of the slain were cremated, and none of the usual contagious disorders occurred. In Russia, after the retreat of the grand army, corpses were burned wholesale, and later, before Paris, 4,000 were cremated with a similar avoidance of bad effect. It is said if a similar method had been adopted in Egyjit, the cholera Avould not have broken out at Dainietta.