----- Original Message ----- From: Cassandra Olmstead <CassandraO@msn.com> To: <CEMETERY-PHOTOS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 1999 7:11 AM Subject: [CEMETERY-PHOTOS-L] FW: [MOMS_N_ME-ROOTS-L] Wyuka Cemetery Lincoln, Nebraska > I thought I would pass this on - it just makes your stomach turn. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Latham Family [mailto:lathamfamily@linkLINE.com] > Sent: Friday, August 06, 1999 11:25 PM > To: MOMS_N_ME-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [MOMS_N_ME-ROOTS-L] Wyuka Cemetery Lincoln, Nebraska > > > | Hi Listers: > | > | Its a sad day when our dead cannot rest in peace. > | > | Last night August 4, 1999 vandels destroyed monuments in Wyuka Cemetery > | Lincoln Nebraska, estimated damage about a half a million dollars. This > | > | cemetery is 130 years old. It contained monuments that are irreplaceable, > | italian, hand carved marble of angels and figures. The vandels went to a > | lot of work in some cases, had to climb up ten feet or more to topple > | angels and statues atop momuments. Many had stood for more than a > | hundred years. So much damage that in some cases repair is not possible. > | > | Nancy > | > | Here's the address for Wyuka Cemetery: > | 3600 O St, Lincoln, NE 68510-1692 Phone: (402)474-3600 > | > | > | Here's the article from the Lincoln Journal Star about the vandalism: > | http://journalstar.com/stories/neb/stox > ______________________________