The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1868-06-16
Suspended Animation..A Young Lady Lies
in a Trance Nearly Two Weeks. -

suspended Animation--A Young Lady Lies
in a Trance Nearly Two Weeks.
One Of the most remarkable cases
that we have ever been called upon to
chronicle has lately come under our no.
tice, and we propose to lay the facts be
fore the public exactly as they are On
Lorain street, above Jersey. there re-
sides with her step father young lady,
Miss Ellen K. White, who is probably
between seventeen and eighteen years of
age, very progressing in her manner,
and very finely educated. About six
weeks ago she was taken very danger
ously i'll. with what the family physician
pronounced typhoid fever, and for some
days was so low that all hopes of her
recovery were given up. She rallied,
however, and under careful nursing and
skillful treatment, she was in fair way
to recover, when. about two weeks ago,
she had . relapse and sank rapidly. un-
til the breath seemed to leave her body.
and she was pronounced a corpse. Her
body wss prepared for the grave, and
parents and friends for the funeral, when
her mother, who could not be made to
realize the fact that her only daughter
was dead to her forever, noticed that
though the limbs of her daughter were
rigid, yet the body retained it's warmth
Physicians we're called, but they decided
that she was dead. and every attempt to
rcsuscitate her failing. it was determined
last Sunday to consign her to the grave.
= and a coffin was procured On Satur-
day, while one of the neighbors and her
mother were standing by the side of the
supposed corpse, the door, which had
been LETT open, ehiew shut with loud
noice, which had the effect of SO acting
upon the girl as to bring her to and set
her life blood in motion. She sprang up
in bed, and. throwing her arms around
her mothers neck. wept tears Of Joy
over her escape from the horrid death
u OF being buried alive. Miss White said
/ that when she felt herself sinking she
had no fear Of death, but turned upon
her side, and as she did 50 all pain dis
appeared and she sank to sleep as peace
fully as child. She lay, she thinks,
unconscious for an hour or more,a for
q when she came to herself. though she
could not move or speak, she found that
she was laid out ready for burial. She
could see her mother by her side, and
all those who came to see her; could
hear them all talk and understand all
they said. She tried to speak, but her
tongue refused to do its office; she tried
to move, but could not and there she
lay, blessing her mother for her refusa
to allow her to be buried. Upon two
occasions, when her mother was alone
in the room with her, it seemed as
though she left her body, and, standing
by the side OF her body, could look
down upon it rs she could upon her
mother. She said she was unable to
describe the feelings she experienced
upon these occasions. When not tor
turcd with the fear OF being buried
alive. she was perfectly at rest, perfectly
happy, and when the door slammed,
which brought her to, it seemed as
though she was, to use her own words,
compelled to commence hard days
work" Miss White is now in q fair
way to recover. Her strength is gain
ing rapidly, and, from every indication,
we should judge she had long life be.
fore her Cleveland Plain Dealer, May
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The late Bishop of Litchfield was once
travelling in . railway carriage in Eng