Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1913 — FIREWORKS SCARE MOURNERS [ARTICLE]

FIREWORKS SCARE MOURNERS

Roman Candles Are Used by Mistake for the Wax llluminants At Wake. Niagara Falls, Ont. —The wake over the body of Alexander Postinka, In the mortuary chapel of Morse & Son’s undertaking rooms in Niagara Falls south, was enlivened by an unexpected display of pyrotechnics. One of a number of friends who had gathered to pay their last respects went to the store of George Briggs for candles to light around the corpse. Mr. Briggs, thinking the foreigners wanted to celebrate a holiday, sold the man a half dozen Roman candles. These were' taken to the chapel and placed at Intervals beside the body. Each man then took his place at a candle, and at a given signal they were all lighted. Immediately the mourners were in a panic. ; / The rockets flew biasing in all directions and the mourners made a scramble for doors and windows. - George Morse, a member of the un-

dertaklng firm, hearing, the noise, rushed Into the room and to save the place from fire, and also calmed the fears of the foreigners and the wake continued.