Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1879 — Cremated Alive-A Fearful Fate. [ARTICLE]

Cremated Alive-A Fearful Fate.

A Richmond (Va.) dispatch of a re* cent date tells the following 'horrible story: Yesterday James 8. Nash, a well«todo farmer living 'ln Henrico County, came to Richmond atm got on a spree. He returned hoine last night pretty full ,of liquor, and went to the stable and 'puft,hU horse away. Bq then ;prent to tjfe/ojlder-house—a small log building -rto get some fodder for nis horse. He carried a cjuidle with him. The fodderhouse Was entered by means of a vety small door.. By some means, after the unfortunate' farmer had opened tha dpor, ,he dropped. candle ip the fodder, igniting it at once. In his drunken stupidity be overturned a heavy bale of hay, which rolled against the small dobr, shutting it arid closing it bom-' pletely. , The fodder blazed at once, and the of a blazing furnace, slowly . roasting alive! His hJS bWight bfs agonized wifrfWhd chilAhn tlO J ihe seefie, bht not torch ©pan-, the small door, which hod-..Bfiattaaaof bales oi hay . jammed agaipM it,, j Thfi .hftVPg being bpflt pi by knocking down the sides. Through tne lar£e' dracks between the logsf-fhey could see the man burning alive, ana his contortions were horrible to lobk; upon;.; Surrounded; by fire, with his clpthes hlafiiug, he Wm soon sobere<l by his intense suffering, lifting bales of the burnihg stuff in ljis hands in his endeavors to clear the way to the door. At first his hair blaoed; tnten they sfcw his eye-balls burst open fram. tie intense heat, arid hq fell to.the floor,-,!,! , In hi* scrqams ,<rf.,agpny haforn he. fell he. coed for Water! watet£’, anti. he saW the small ’crowd outside and scWanted: “Wliht aYc you all standing tlfeWfAi’ When lam burning!* me, ftoriGrefs sakef’ ’Very! **** after ho fell hiz eufferhtgs ended in death,-but not before both arrps had bopn com-foddeb-hoffite wbfitltad been ii riifin.’f ?>■ 5 v '