New York Daily Tribune

A Catholic Priest Burned to Death in FRANKLIN COUNTY.-On Tuesday evening, at about 11 o'clock, a fire occurred at the residence of the Rev. Bernard McSherry, the Catholic pastor in this village, by which that gentleman lost his life. But a few minutes elapsed after the alarm was given before many of our citizens sleeping room (the priest's) small bedroom on the ground floor. The fire was discovered by a visiting priest, who occupied an adjoining room, and who aroused the household, consisting of the priest's brother, a family occupying a wing of the house, and two or three other persons. When he had arrived, and the fire was sufficiently subdued to allow people to enter the room the priest was in, he was found burned and fairly roasted to death. The body was discovered lying on his bed, which was nearly consumed, and the carpets of the room and the bedstead were fire had been burning for some time, and it is more than probable that the priest was dead before the fire broke out. The room was a horrible sight blackened and burned and crisped till the flesh fell from the limbs, and one of his arms was burned off to the elbow. It is supposed to have been communicated to the bed from the lamp. Coroner Farnsworth of Chambersburg, will hold an inquest, which will reveal all that can ever be known of this singular and horrible accident. [Melrose Palladium.