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Show GENERAL. TUB: BROOKLYN 1IOKKOR. Account oi iho Funeral. Brooklyn, 9. This morning all tho bodies in the morgue were removed to the temporary dead house in the old market, where there were in all one hundred charred corpses. One hundred coflius, with Ccrman silver mountings, were brought and placed upon the floor, and iuto them the unidentified un-identified and destitute dead were placed. Fifty-six hearse.- and undertaker's under-taker's wagons drew up nt the entrance en-trance in Adams street, and the remains re-mains woro lifted in. Thcro were two i-hiilcio cie.u, in it iiumuur oi venieies. The throng about tho market was very large, and the utmost excitement prevailed. pre-vailed. Shortly alter 1 o'clock the cortege started through Boerum place and then entered Schermerhorn street. Hundreds of men, women and children followed, rushing along the sidewalk in a state of great agita tion. When the hearses and wagons reached Schermcrhorn street they were lormed iu a parallel lino and there was a delay of nearly three-quarters three-quarters of an hour. Although the weather was bitterly cold and cutting, the wind blowing a gale, the neighborhood neigh-borhood of richermorhorn street and Flat bush avenue was ciowdcd with the participants and sympathetic spectators. The sadness iu tbe faces of women wailing on tho pavements was very marked. The procession moved from the bead of Schermer-horn Schermer-horn street into Flat bush avenue amid general mourning and timed by the measured roll of drums and the fitful sobbing of almost broken hearts within the houses aud without them. ' Far along the wide avenue aud across the broad BtroeLa many an eye was moist aud many a hp quivering as tbo dead were borne to Greenwood, leaving leav-ing behind them sacred memories aud cruel poverty too, which wi'l not be effaced, and by their very slillncfc and seclusion appealing more loudly titan the noise of words in behait of their stricken and famishing luwd ones for a wise and generous chanty. Tho following wm the order of pro-cession pro-cession : First, 1110110(11 Fquiulof policemen; second, a number of carriages containing con-taining clergymen; tliird, hearts aud otber vehicles with bodies of the dead ; fourth, regiments of nuiitia; tilth, relatives aud near friends wf tin; victims, all in carriage; sixth, otlicers of the CUV Government a'nl ulber in authority. As the hears-s roiled down l-Ytlbujh avenue, one of the mo.it couepicu"!!-and couepicu"!!-and often recurring eights iAs .in old large poster witn tho umino'is announcement: an-nouncement: "Br.vtkiyn'f ;;ca!re la.-t night of the 'Iwo O.-ph.in-; ' d.jwit. open at half-past 7 o'ci:k." Co n-p.ired n-p.ired with other (mural pr jc soiim. ttie great prucesciuu of to-day bad in an V rhuttii-tprMliM of it nwn. Toe number and appearance of many crisped and disiuembfrtd ftjrms, lb.-iK-'LTipan'j of carrug-", allot them Uie neart-st friends of the dead, tin-leaiiiro tin-leaiiiro which p--rvdl the ciu a..d lent to it a di-lincl i vo and dn-piy rouching Bigniticance was tbe man;-.eet.itMu man;-.eet.itMu and Burrow. A cotuinuii.iy aad b'-en u::! '-t d and s idnesi common. Many ol tiie private and a!m.-it all if trie punuc o'jilJi ngi wero ht .ivily drapil. All tlgs Woro at hnifim.it and i :orn by lue g.iie ahirst into shri-ds. 1 I ne cold vf jiner '-e.u'-1 to h.tve little or no etl-jcl on tii" ; --ide. M-n, blocked up the av. i '! und 8'irid uiit into the f.irin-: w.vy. i lie p:io k'-jt a w; h: cp ic np n f r ti.e pr .ce-vuiii, which tnove-l pl'-wly up Uie avenue, tiie l- m pln;i. o:i auJ ei.d-av-riii upprenty. lo up pruieh us near as pM.! .e to t:. iit-.irs.'-t and iniij bearing !r.oii ii-tary ii-tary r ;naii)4 ul lito vietinii ol tin-play tin-play h..;ne. tr-ig'-dy. Tue win o! Uie hooves w.-re U.led mth i '-' l a--m 1 lar aiiead tiie avenue w n b. k d mm h nn in bfing. ti' n the prurfwinn reih'd KuiirtM avenm- i Toca 'A dre iry w;l' :i an 1 prvri-s is ni.Ue witn anidt rate; dnii.-u.ty. iocneo the hii" d mar. m na cuu-liuu'jil cuu-liuu'jil lo 1 vt.'i.ty fi.'th treet and up il.ii tr 'l to ' ! re1 1 1 w ; ' I , tin.' U lUtiTil -:ily ol toe du.ul. Tnerfl w.n a tremendous tremen-dous crowd ;it (jrevnwood. A toe c.jrl. c p.ioaul Hirough the g iU tbe bell in tl.w tower t.i-.d mournfully. J;i e;i:i.'r Bhi along tho p.ithw.iy. i on tho hiil sides an 1 inva-Img pnv.i'.i 1 p! its. p'oulo wi re there. Turning to the lelt, tiie funeral priK-.iion pro- cecdid directly Ui V atle uvui'ir, I wiiere, at-out i.o yarus i:om inr ontrance of the cemetery, a trench had bem prepared for tbo reo ption of the dead. Tho nrcat crowN wlm n were runt nrar and yml witlrn tbe cmetery ff'T- fi rmed around the grave, th-i nite beii.g on the sl"p of the hill and cinp: tr!y r-ipo... Re old w.ii) alni Mt iii'ill"r.b..-, but nil the people I tip ir pi - . lin rn w.ih no dl.iy in removing the remains from tiie in ar.' and w.i nm and dcjMrti'ing them in thu cir. ular trcm.b. Id v. Dr. H In in k rci'l the beautiful burial services r(f th K(m copal churcn, winch Wiis liiten-- tn attentively by th"se who wr-rn within r'.ich of his Vuice. Tn re w.vt nti lrnprrniblo r id 1 1 ' ' s mingb'il witii floieinuity in the s 'n". HundmU of pe.,plo we i it, tiie le.iri freiirn; on Ih.-K cl.e.'LH us th-iy usueil from tin-ir eye. AftT tlio re.idingftf Hi'- stvic ' U'jV. Mr. IVllnam, ol tho Unihirim I cnurch of our Mm t, nd'lp--"wl the aembl igu. Jtev. :l. "'"W irl V .;. (., Itptit clergyman nll-Ted n fervid pnijer, at the coiiflus'-u uf rutniuii's remarlti und t! o service wrc tlien brought to a e! n with a benediction by Ujv. .bneph (. IMI. 1'rvvious to tl in duini",al of tbe ii-itt'HiiblaQ Ihn choral sncieliai sain,'. "Siy Wnat Troobl.-H I lien," and "Abovo tho Tree Topi is Ifest." J he peoplo now departed anil all wat endrd except tho enduring agony of tho widow and orphan, A Iter lho funeral tho coroner's jury met nrul adjourned till Wednesday Wednes-day next. New York, 9. A coin mi lien of bankers and merehai.tinl New York mot ut Ibdmniiico' nnd nppointerl ' lt"iij. i. rtlutrriiau, of the Mchatiie's I bank, tmamirer of tho relief fund. t was reported tint u tinij'inty ot lho' depnniling on Hi', m. J h"io wrrn it bout Hevtjiilyfivo ea--ci of ubioliiLe denlltutioii, and U!) lo 'JHO chhcn reouiring spoeinl wHiwhti.e". |