noon
All kinds of horrifying stories go the rounds . News has been brought by passengers on the stage that a man and his wife , living near the Illinois River , died within an hour of each other . They were well at dawn . At noon they were both under the black soil of the river 's shore , buried by three stalwart sons , who carried their bodies in the bed clothing and let them down by it into hastily made graves . Something has happened here . The stage driver who silenced the rowdies last night is stricken this morning at the tavern . He is dead .