TIL:When railway tycoon George Pullman died in 1897, his family was so afraid that his corpse would be desecrated by employees, they buried him at night in a pit 8 feet deep, encased in floors and walls of steel-reinforced concrete in a lead-lined casket covered in layers of asphalt and steel rails.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pullman#Death_and_Burial



Submitted March 21, 2015 at 07:50PM by PhillyGreg http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2zt255/tilwhen_railway_tycoon_george_pullman_died_in/