On the 26th of August, 1854, at Herrnlauersitz (Guhrauer Kreis) more than 100 corpses were washed out of their graves by an inundation. Many of them remained in their coffins. They were found afterward in gardens, yards, fields, in the woods, and even in houses, whither they had floated. Sixteen days passed before the bodies were all collected; some were recovered whole, others in parts; then they were buried in one large pit forever (?), as the officiating clergyman announced. “I was long since cured of a belief in earth burial,” says a very intelligent army officer, “by an appalling sight I witnessed when going down the Mississippi. There had been a great freshet, during which the river had so changed its course as to invade a cemetery and dislodge its occupants, who, in various stages of decomposition—the coffins having rotted or been torn asunder by the torrent—were floating down the stream. It was a ghastly spectacle.” I don’t think that the people along the banks of the mighty river were particularly edified with the sight. And if, at the time, they would have known of some other mode of disposing of the dead, I am sure they would have adopted it without hesitation. A similar occurrence happened at Kansas City, Mo., in February, 1886. The Missouri River being blocked by ice, caused the channel to rise and sweep the lower part of an island away that lies opposite the city, and upon which is the small-pox hospital. About 20 graves were in this part of the island; they were opened by the flood and the corpses that had been interred in them swam down the river in their coffins. These bodies had been buried only since one year. The people on both sides of the Missouri, from which the city derives its water-supply, were quite agitated over this affair. At the same time the cemetery at Copiano, Chili, was inundated; many of the vaults were full of water and the coffins were floating around, while many of the common graves had been completely cleared of their contents. The most horrible feature of the situation was that the water which flows from the cemetery goes into the river which supplies the inhabitants with water for domestic purposes. The _Quarterly Review_ (No. XLII, p. 380) states:— “Many tons of human bones every year are sent from London to the North, where they are crushed in mills constructed for the purpose, and used as manure!” And a correspondent of the _Times_ writes to his journal from Alexandria:—