corverrs " ASHUELOT.
On Friday afternoon, at half-past two, a melancholy occurrence' took place on the above-named vessel, in which a first-class fireman named Patrick McCann was killed, and another member of the ship's crew had a very narrow escape from the same fate.
Tt appears that a heavy piece of machinery, weighing about seven tons, was being lowered into the hold, when the clamps by which it was held gave way. The deceased was standing almost iuinediately below it in descending, it canted over alittle, and in the chest, causing death almost instantaneously. A doctor was immediately sent for from the U.S. corvette Monocacy, but on his way to the ship, he meta boat in which the body was being brought to that vessel.
The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon, the proce-sion arriving at the New Cemetery about half past two. The unfortunate mau had been a member of the "Shanghai Lodge No. 4" 1.0.6.7, and a number of its members, in com: any with some of the members of the "Star of Hope" Lodye 1.0.G.T., in all numbering some forty or fifty persons, among whom were several ladies, awaited the arrival of the hearse just inside the gate in order to render a tribute of respect to the memory of their departed brother. First in the naval cortiye, which was under the command of Lieut. Colahan, of the U.S. corvette Monocacy, came the firing party, consisting of eight marines with arms reversed; then came the hearse, followed by about a hundred men from the ashuelot and the Monocacy, the American colors being carried draped with black, while behind the men were five or sixofticers, also from both ships. After the procession had passed through the gate, the members of the lodge to which the deceased had belonged fall in, two and two, and behind them again came the 'Star of Hope" members. The officers present stood a little on one side of the head of the grave, the member formed in a line at the foot of it; the fung party stood at the head, while' the Good Templars formed in a lino behind the officers, that extended to the firing party. The collin was covered with the stars and ipes and brought to the grave by eight bearers. Part of the Church of England burial service was read_by Mr. W._S. Ewen, P.W.O.T. of the Shanghai Lodge, No. '4," alter which the Burial service of the Good Templar Order was read by the chaplain of the lodge. Lieut. Golahan very courteously permitted some thirty men in the ranks, who were members of the Order, to join the circle formed round the grave by the shore members. At the conclusion of the chap-Nido St the grave ud fed. the three jain's prayer, the firm; moved to the
volleys customary on these occasions, 'The Good Templars present fell in again behind the members of the ships' crews, and followed them to the gate, where they dis persed. The number of persons present, the perfect order and ity observed, and the recollection of the sad and mysterious providence that had brought a
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