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THE ASHTABULA DISASTER.

CHAPTER XXL

THE MEMORIAL SERVICES.

CSpIIE time at length arrived for laying awaythe unbnried dead. Xobody had recog-nized them. God alone knew them, and there-fore to his sacred earth were they consigned, thatat the resurrection day he might bring them forthto the knowledge of all. Garnered in the har-vest of flame, they were to be laid away in God ’sstore-house.

The hands of strangers were outstretched tobury them, for the hearts of others could onlymourn for them, ■without claiming the poor rem-nants which were so unrecognizable.

Their sepulchre was in the stranger’s soil,though their memory was in many a home.

The village of Ashtabula , made meiporable byso direful a calamity, was now to become thesacred burial place of these bodies which per-