Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1914 — Unique Coffin. [ARTICLE]

Unique Coffin.

Perhaps the most singular coffin in which a human being ever was buried is the one of which the following story is told: A workman engaged In casting metal for the manufacture of ordnance in the Woolwich arsenal, in England, lost his balance and fell into a cauldron containing twelve tons of molten steel. The metal was at white heat and the man was utterly consumed in less time than it takes to tell it v The War Office authorities held a conference and decided not to prof me the dead by using the metal in the manufacture of ordance, and the mass of metal was actually buried and a Church of England clergyman read the services for the dead over it.— “New York Herald. IT