| Show FIVE FALL INTO GRAVE remarkable incident that D stubbed solemnity of I 1 instead of the accustomed quiet which prevails at the burial of 0 the dead great excitement and fear at tended the burial the other day of michael sereno a prominent merchant of westport when by the collapsing of a grave the coffin and several per sons attending the services were A ere hurled into a small pit the final prayer had been said by the preacher and the assistant to the undertaker stepped to the foot of the coffin to arrange the rope tor for letting the coffin into the grave at that mo ment one of the pallbearers acci dentally kicked out the crosspiece that supported the coffin the coffin quickly descended into the grave the body going feet first the assistant hastened its descent by tumbling on it several persons rushed to the edge of the grave causing the soil to yield and in a few seconds five per sons were lying in the pit halt half covered with dirt they were pulled out the coffin was dug out and laid flat and after the grave had been redig the burial was completed N Y press |
