The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-06-11
Suspended Animation--A Young Lady
Lays in . Trance Nearly Two Weeks.

From the Philadelphia Plaindealer
/ One of the most remarkable cases
that we have been called upon to chroni-
Gle has lately come under our notice, and
we propose to lay the fact before the
/ public exactly as they are.
On Lorain Street above Jersey, there
resides with her stepfather a young lady
Miss Ellen K. White, who is probably be-
tween seventeen and eighteen years Of
age, very progressing in her manner.
and very finely educated About six
weeks she was taken very i'll with what
! the family physician called the 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 skilful treatment, she was
in fair way to recovery, when, in about
two weeks ago, she had relapse, and
sank rapidly, until the breath seem to
lea ve her body, and the was pronounced
a corpse. Her body was prepared for
the grave, preparations were made by her
bereaved parents and friends for the fu-
neral, when her mother could not be
made to believe that her only daughter
was dead to her forever, noticed that
though The limbs of her daughter were
rigid, yet the body retained its warmth
Physicians were called, but they decided
she was dead, and every attempt to resu-
citate her failing, it was determined, last
Sunday, to consigH her to her grave, and
a coffin procured. On Saturday when
enc Of the neighbors and the mother
were standing by the supposed corpse
the door which had been open, blew shut
with loud noise, 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 hor-
rid death of being buried alive.
Our reporter visited the house yester-
day and was granted an interview with
the young lady, whom we found sitting
up by the window apparently as happy
as the birds whose music she was listen
ing to as he entered the room.
THE YOUNG LADY STORY.
Miss. White said that when she felt
herself sinking she had no fear of death
but turned upon her side, and as she did
so all pain disappeared and she sank to
sleep as peacefully as child. She lay
there 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 for burial
She could see her mother by her
side and all those who came to see
her: she could hear them talk and
understood all they said. She tried to
speak but her tongue refused to do its
Office; she tried to move but could no5
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 the body and standing
by the side of her body, could look
down upon it as she could upon her
mother. She said she was unable to de-
scribe the feelings experienced upon
these occasions. When not tortured by
the fears of being buried alive, she was
perfectly happy, and when the door
slammed which brought her to, it seemed
as though she was to use her own words,
compelled to do hard days work.
Miss White is now in a fair way to re-
cover. Her strength is gaining rapidly
and from every indication we should
judge she had long life before her.