The funeral of Mr. John C. Bach took place from St. Ann's Episcopal Church this afternoon. Mr. Bach died on Thursday last from pleuro pneumonia. He was 71 years of age. He was an old merchant, and succeeded his father in the rectifying and distilling establishment of Back, Sons & Company, of this city. Afterwards he removed to New York and embarked in the patent medicine business in which he was engaged at the time of his death. He left a widow and eight children.

While the flames were at their height in the infirmary fire, Jack Coyne, an old sailor from Chicago who was an inmate of the institution, mounted a ladder which had been raised to the north dormitory. The undertaking seemed hopeless. Dense clouds of smoke rolled out of the windows. the west wing, where the fire was first seen, was a solid mass of fire. With the winds blowing the flames like a blaze to the interior of the building. The stairway and the floor of the hall had fallen. Coyne intrepidly went through the window at the top of the ladder. He crawled along the floor, lying close down. where he found he could escape the densest part of the smoke. He groped his way to the beds and yelled their occupants down to the floor and to the window, where a breath of air sufficiently revived them so that they could go down the ladder unassisted. Coyne again returned into the dormitory, where he picked his way to other beds and rescued others in the same manner. Thus four times did he return, each time laden with his human freight. With the fourth one the smoke proved too great for even the brave Coyne. Standing in the window he vainly called as Dr. Dewey had done in another part of the south dormitory, upon the inmates to come to the window, but his calls went with response. At a window nearer the flames for an instant a hand was seen to move listlessly across the panes and then its owner sank out of sight and into death, as the cornice and roof above were falling and rendered any idea of help from those below futile. A patient named Helleham, who was considered only partially insane, on being awakened, made a rope out of his sheets and blankets, which he lot out of the window to the steps by the side of the burning wing. He then crawled down the rope, after telling another inmate to follow him. He reached the steps safely, but the second on let go his hold when part way down and fell and received serious injuries. The third on looked at the flames and then the distance beneath and retreated from the window. He was not seen again and is among the lost. The patients, as fast as they were taken from the building, were conducted to neighboring detached wards, where the feeble and injured ones were cared for and their wounds dressed and stimulants administered. Nearly all of the patients saved their clothing, which the night before had been laid together by the side of their beds. In the excitement they had not forgotten it, but taking it in a handful as they were told by the attendants to run for life. One or two of the sick ones were considerably shocked and it is probable they will die from the effects. The remainder of the rescued are said to be doing well and no immediate danger is feared with them. It is certain, however, that to the seven men burned the mortality list of the fire will be increased materially, as the old and infirm cared for in the building will not be able in all instances to survive the shock and surrounding excitement. One of the attendants describes a horrible scene. He says as he looked into the burning building he saw a number of the bodies lying on the girders burning, the heads and feet dropping off and the bodies finally going into the cellar below. There were no means of putting out the fires except the water works supply, but that was useless, as there was no hose or other apparatus. The last Legislature made a small appropriation to guard against the fire but the amount was large enough only to put into the hydrants. A number of friends of the deceased arrived on the late trains fully expecting to take the bodies home. There have been no preparations for burial as yet, but it probable that there will be but one funeral held over the entire number, as there are no means of identifying the dead excepting as they came from the ruins, laying side by side and in regular order, as they retired. One singular fact related by Dr. Bannister is that most of the patients sleep with their heads covered with bed clothing. According to this and the positions they were found in the cellar it is probable they were smothered. None but male patients were burned in the infirmary. The remains of Thomas Herely were reverently laid in a coffin by his two brother, Senator Herely, and John F. Herely, about 1 A. M., as they lay in the coffins only the pelvis and spinal column and a few of the unconsumed muscles of the back remained to mark the form that had been so vigorous in life. Thomas Hereley had suffered from dementia for over five years. In several instances the patients, after having been taken out, rushed back into the flames. P. Giter, a patient who was demented by the rumpus, broke away from his keeper three times, and each time got within the walls, but was captured and finally taken to the main building. The scene was dissimilar from the ordinary holocaust. There were no frenzied faces seen at the windows, no heart rending appeals for rescue. It more resembled the destruction of a stable with the horses tied in their stalls, and like horses those of the inmates who were physically capable of locomotion seemed to court the deaths from which they had been saved. Some were in pantaloons and shirts, others in shirt alone, while a few stood wrapped in sheets and blankets, stockingless, in the foot of snow which had fallen only a few hours before. It was biting cold, the thermometer at the time being 12 degrees below zero. Some wandered off through the snow drifts, but quickly returned to the warmth of the flames. As soon as practicable they were led to comfortable quarters in the adjacent buildings and given clothing. The flames spread with lightning rapidity from the basement into the hallway and thence to the second floor dormitories. In the latter there were twenty patients. Some were helpless, but many were able bodies. On the first floor were the other inmates of the building. These were very old and infirm. On this floor were many who were expected to die in a few days. A number of patients were confined in separate rooms for especial treatment. It was impossible to work on any deliberate plan and the rescuers followed their own heroic designs silently and bravely. Dr. Dewey, who was one of the most active of these, procured a ladder and ascended to a window of the compartment on the second floor in which O. Ellis, a dying paralytic, was confined. He was not expected to live twenty-four hours. The doctor smashed in the glass, cutting his hand severely. He was staggered by the hot, black smoke which enveloped him. The suffocating victim was unable to move and he moaned piteously for help in his dying agonies. The doctor was powerless. He could not enter without breaking the sash, and this he found he was unable to do without the assistance of a tool of some kind. Standing irresolute, he heard somebody at the next window appealing for a saviour. Ellis, if rescued, could not by any chance survive, and aware of this face the doctor quickly descended to the ground, changed the position of the ladder, and, making a second ascent, he crushed the glass and through the aperture rescued the decrepit form of Isaac White, an infirm patient 83 years old. Francis Lebarge, an attendant, after saving two refractory patients, came twice within an inch of losing his own life. Once when the flames at the stairway to the ground floor had cut off his escape he broke through a window. Not in the least daunted by this experience, he forced his way through the blinding, choking smoke to the second floor and carried out an inmate, the later being in a nude condition. Lebarge rushed to his room on the second floor again to procure a pair of pants for the sufferer. The fire beneath had meanwhile burned the bottom of the floor until nothing but a crust remained. With the pants in his hand, Lebarge was groping his way out of the room when the shell of flooring gave way and he fell through. Fortunately he caught himself by the elbow on either side of the aperture, still strong enough to bear his weight; he lifted himself to his hands and knees, and in that manner crawled out through the smoke and encircling flames to the main stairway. His clothes and hair were singed, but he miraculously escaped further injury. Harry Brown, another attendant, when surrounded by the fire on the second floor, snatched a couple of sheets from one of the dormitory beds, tired them together, and, fastening one end to a bed, slipped down to the ground. The burned building was of stone, two stories high. It was 70 by 100 feet in dimensions and was flimsily finished inside with hard pine. It was erected last summer at a cost of $20,000, being built with funds from the $400,000 appropriation given by the last legislature.

The remains of Mrs. Edgar Allan Poe were yesterday removed from Fordham and laid beside those of her late husband in the Westminster Presbyterian churchyard at Baltimore. Mrs. Poe died in 1847.

A young business man of Cleveland named Franklin, was horsewhipped on the street yesterday by Mrs. Lena Knight, a widow. The woman charges that Franklin agreed to marry her and then broke his promise.

The annual ice harvest was commenced yesterday along the Hudson and Mohawk rivers. Near Canajoharie the ice is twelve inches thick.

Patrick Cavanagh, a workman at the establishment of George J. Tyson, at Riverside Conn., yesterday undertook to thaw out a dynamite cartridge over a red hot stove. He dropped it into the fire and it exploded, blowing his head off.

The people of Northern Georgia are greatly excited over the discoveries of gold and silver made in the Cohuttah Mountains, Boston capitalists have had four famous assaysits at work and yesterday they announced that they had traced a vein ,500 feet broad for nine miles through a mountain and that their assay shown in some instances 80 per cent, of the pure mineral. They say that is surpasses the most famous mines of Colorado, and in all probability is worth $20,000,000. A smelter is to be created at Dalton, Ga., and the work of developing the mines will be begun at once.

Madison Square Garden was crowded last night with men anxious to witness the slugging match announced to take place between John L. Sullivan and Paddy Ryan. The police were present in force and gave timely warning that they would stop the fight if it passed the bounds of a sparring exhibition. The men began gently enough but in a moment they were excited and thumping each other unmercifully. They were immediately interrupted and separated by Inspector Thorne and Captain Williams who stopped the fight. The crowd was very indignant at the interruption and reluctantly left the garden.

The County Court House of King William County, Va., was burned on Sunday night, together with the records dating back over 200 years.

Five more bodies were recovered yesterday from the ruins of the Kaukakee Infirmary for the insane. They were so badly burned as to be hardly recognizable. four of the injured person are still suffering severely.

William Orker, aged 20 and Alice Emily Hay, aged 17, were drowned last night while skating on a mill pond near Providence.

Bernard Gutwillig, an importer of hosiery, fell down an elevator shaft yesterday at his place of business, No. 89 Franklin Street, New York, breaking his left thigh, both of his legs near the ankle and his lower jaw. It is feared at the hospital where he was taken that he cannot live.