BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, AUG. 10, 1900 Funeral Party Attacked By Bees. An exciting and unusual incident attended the burial of James W. Bracken, formerly of New Albany, in the rural cemetery, near Bradford, 14 miles northwest of that city, Tuesday. Mr. Bracken died Monday night at his home in Campbellsburg, Ind. The funeral took place from the family residence in that town, and burial was to have been near Bradford, the former home of the dead man, in Harrison county, 20 miles distant. At the cemetery the funeral cortege was met by a committee of Hope Lodge of Odd Fellows, on New Albany, of which the deceased had been an honored member. As the horses attached to the hearse were driven near the grove one of the animals trod on a huge nest of bumble bees. The bees swarmed out at once in myriads and began stinging the horses, the driver and the persons standing near. The driver of the hearse had both eyes closed by 10 stings and he was unable to control the team, which became unmanageable and ran away. The men in attendance, disregarding the stings of the angry insects, succeeded in checking the horses just as they were about to overturn the hearse in their struggles, and after a fight of nearly a half hour, the bees were driven off and the coffin taken from the hearse and the body laid to rest. Mrs. Bracken, the widow, was attached and badly stung, and a score or more of the attending friends suffered. The New Albany Odd Fellows, although in the thickest of it, were all fortunate enough to escape any serious injury.