Indiana American., 1868-06-26


The Cleveland lpfaia,ieaier gives the
following curious case OF suspended -sai-
nation:
On Lorain street. above Jersey, there
resides with her stepfathers young lady.
Miss Ellen X White, who IL probably be-
tween seventeen aud eighteen years Of age,
very prepossessing 10 her msnner. aud
very finely educated. About six weeks'
ago she was taken dangerously i'll with
what the family physician pronounced
typhoid fever, and some days was so low
that all hopes Of her recovery we're glssn
up Che rallied, however, and under careful
nursing and skillfuI treatment, she was in
fair way TO recover when, about two
weeks ago. she had relapse, and sank
rapidly, until the breath seemed 10 leave
her body, and she was pronounced
corpse. a.'
Her body was prepared for The grave,
and preparations we're made by her be-
reaved 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 we're
rigid. yet the body retained its warmth.
Physicians we're called, but they decided
that she was dead, and every attempt 10
resuscitate her falling, II was determined
last Sunday to consigu her 10 the grave,
and toihn was procured. On Saturday
while one Of the aeighbors aud the moth
er was standing besidethe supposed CORPSE,
the door, which had been left open, blew
shut with load noise, which had the
effect OF 80 acting upon the girl as to bring
her TO aud set her life blood in motion.
She spraDg up in bed. aud, throwing her
arms around her mothers neck, wept
tears Of JOY over her escape from the hor-
rid fate of being buried alive.
Our reporier yesterday visited the hvurs
and was granted xn interview with the
young lady, whom he fonnd sitting up by
the window, apparently as happy as the
birds TO whose music she was listening 40
he entered the rom.
THE YOUNG LADY's STORY.
Miss White said that when she felt her,
self sinking che had no fear of death, but
turned upon her side, and as she did 30
all pain disappeared. and she sank to sleep
as peacefully US child. She lay, she
thinks, unconscious for an hour or NOR,
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 SEQ her mother by her side, and all
those who came to see her; conld hear them
talk, and understood all they said.
She tried to speak to them, but her
tongue refused 10 do its Office; she tried TO
move, bat could not, and there she ky,
blessing her mother for her refusal TO AL
low 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 IL as she
could upon her mother She said she was
unable TO describe the feelings that shc
experienced upon those occasions. When
not tortured with the fear OF being bur.
led alive, she was perfectly happy. and
when the door slammed which brought
her to. ii seemed as though she was, to
use her own words, compelled to CON-
mencc hard days work.
Miss White Is now in fair way TO re-
cover Her strength is gaining rapidly,
aud, from every indication, We should
judge she bad long life before her.