The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

LAST SAD RITES.

Impressive Funeral Services of the Newhall House Victims.

Milwaukee, January 25.—The solemn last rites over the unrecognized victims of the Newhall house disaster occurred this morning. Nearly all the business houses all the city and county departments and banks were closed, and the Chamber of Commerce and postoffice from 10 till 12. The occasion was generally observed as one of deep mourning. Pursuant to an agreement of the clergy of all confessions, part of the bodies were awarded to Protestants and part to Catholics. Each victim was placed in a neatly trimmed imitation rosewood coffin, and every scrap, recognized as the remains of a human body cared for. The bodies assigned to Protestants were taken to the Exposition building, which was densely crowded, and services commenced at 10 o'clock under the direction of Rev. Lester, of the Episcopal Church. After the reading of psalms, singing, Scripture readings by Methodist, Presbyterian, Unitarian and Congregational clergy, Rev. S. Freeman, of the Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, Rabbi Moses, of the Temple Emanuel, and Haskins Independent Union Gospel Church, delivered short addresses, and the services closed with the singing of Old Hundred, in which the audience joined. The services experienced interruptions by the explosion of a steam pipe in one of the galleries. The crowd made a rush for the exits but were soon quieted. Fully 10,000 people were in the building but the stampede was not attended by any fatal results. Simultaneously with the exercises at the exposition the Catholics held services in St. John's Church, which was heavily draped in mourning. Father Keogh delivered the sermon followed by Solemn Mass of Requiem by Archbishop Heiss, assisted by all the Catholic clergy of the city and concluding with absolution over the bodies of the dead. After the services the processions formed from each place of exercises, which met at a given point forming a line over two miles long, all military bodies and societies of the city participating. Fully 6,000 people were in line despite the bitter cold. The coffins were placed upon sleighs prepared for the occasion, in a most elaborate and appropriate manner, and the Protestants were taken to the Forest Home and the Catholics to Calvary Cemetery and interred in a common grave, under impressive ceremonies. The citizens' committee is busy collecting funds for monuments to mark the last resting place of the victims of the terrible disaster. The inquest in the case was adjourned till to-morrow on account of the funeral ceremonies.