The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-28
A; Case. OF Trance at CleSeIand---Har-
row Escape From Burial Alive.

From tse ReraIdof Wednesday,.
"A case wherein a young. man was up
on the brink of the grave, occurred a
few days ago, in this city. We with
hold the nanes of all parties, by special
| request, but the particulars we are at
liberty to give. .I afN - 20 S59t p p y.
A young German. recently married to
a handsome lady of very respectable
pafeiltage, WAS taken suddenly i'll at
his place of business last FridHy. He
was placed in a carriage and taken to
his residence on Erie Street, where he
laid in greiit agony until Sunday, when
the disease so Frustrated his physical
powers that helay Inotionlessu the
bed, while weeping friends surrounded
thecouch. To all appearances he was
dead, and 1t was so decided. Arrange
ments were about to be made for the
intertnent, when the young wife feeling
she could not give him up so soon, IN
sisted that the funeral be postponed un-
til Tuesday morning. To crafty the
\ woman thus brought SO speedily to
mourn the loss of her husband, the
| funeral was postponed. The disconso-
late wife spent most of the dayon Nom
day in the same room with the corpse,
weeping as though her heart would
break, and still clingfng to the idea that
he could not be dead. l=-'-i.
q About twilight on Monday evening,
when Everything about the house was
perfectly quiet, except when the Still
ness was broken by the sighs of the be-
sons in the room, the body seemed to
move! 1t was but slight motion, yet
sufficient to arrest the attention OF one
fearful eye. - Ha .at
aWhentbe wife insisted that life was
not extinct, that the body didmove, her
friends became anxious about her rea-
sonand tried to divert her mind from
the sOrrowful scene. Two long hours
were spent in conversation, the friends
urging that she wtIs deceived, possibly
by The aickering light, aS the shadows
il cast might have produced the effect
she ascribed to vitality. -
Tho feeling of that little circle of de-
voted friends is known only to them
selves and Him whose all seeing eye
visits the inmoSt recesses of our hearts.
During the conversation all eyes inVol-
UNFAIRLY rested upon the habilfments of
the grave and the featuresof him whom
they supposed would soon become one
hours another slight movement was
perceived by all the party. The scene
which followed can never be described.
The wife clung to the motionlesS form
other husband, alternately weepingnnd
begging of him to speak just one word,
whfleth friends wept for joy, hastened
for IL physician, alarmed the servants
byltheir strange conduct and presented
scene of confusion generally. When
the physician arrived, the friends were
assembled about the LiUia1 man, sug-
gesting and applying all the restora-
tiXes ever heard or dreamed of by any
ofthe party, while the wife, overwhelm-
ed with joy and completely worn out
with excessive excitement, had swooned
away and was lying at the side of her
husband, in the same death-like still
ness that had embraced his form but a
few moments before. ~.
The physician took the necessary
steps to restore the woman and resusct-
tate the man, which was speedily ac-
comPlished in both cases, and as we
write to. dny, the woman is joyous and
happy, while the man thinks his escape
froma living grave one of the marked
features of his life. -zsfsEsh. r,4-f