The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-07-10
From he ol.relqnd Plaindealer



) One of the most remarkable cases that wa
have ever been called upon to chronicle
has lately come under our notice, and we
propose to lay the facts befor the public ex-
actly as they are: A
On Lorain street, above Jersey, there re-
sides with her step-father, a young lady,
Miss Ellen K. White, who is probably be
tween II and IS years of age, very prepos-
sessing in her manner and very finely edu-
Gated. About six weeks ago she was taken
dangerously i'll with what the family phys
lean pronounced typhoid fever and for
some days she was 80 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, until the
breath seemed to leave her body and she
was pronounced corpse. Her body was
prepared for the grave, and preparations
were made by her bereaved 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 for
ever, noticed that though the limbs of her
daughter were rigid, yet the body retained
its warmth. Physicians were called, but
they decided that she was dead, and every
attempt to resuscitate her failing, it was de-
termined last Sunday to consign her to the
grave, and coffin was procured.
On Saturday, while one Of the neighbors
and the mother were standing by the side
OF the supposed corpse, the door, which had
been left opened, blew shut with a loud
noise, which had the effect of SO acting
upon the girl as to bring her too, and
set ner 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 of being
buried alive. Who can picture the happi-
ness of that mother9 who describe the
happiness that came into that for two weeks
desolate home as the dead came to life?
We will not attempt it.
Our reporter yesterday visited the house
and was granted an interview with the
young lady, who we found sitting up by a
window apparently as happy as the birds
to whose music she was listening as we en-
tered the room
THE YOUNG LADY's STORY.
Miss White said that when she felt her
self sinking she had no fear of death, but
turned upon her side, and as she did so all
pam ulsd ppcdJGtl, anu Sle SANK 10 steep as
peacefully 2s child. She lay, she thinks,
unconscious for an hour or more, for 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 talk and
understand all they said She tried to
speak to them, but her tongue refused to
do its office !. she tried TO move, and could
not; and there she lay, blessing her moth
er for her refusal 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 the body, and standing by
the side of her body, could look down upon
it as she could upon hermotherghss&
She said she was unable to describe the
feelings that she experienced upon those
occasions When not tortured with the
fear of being buried alive, she was perfectly
at rest, perfectly happy, and when the door
slammed, which brought her too, it seemed
as though she was, to use her own words,
compelled to commence hard DAYS
work.
Miss White is now in fair way to re-
.cover; her strength is gaining rapidly, and
from every indication we should Judge she
has long, and we hope, happy life before
her 1921 ~ -