The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1873-05-08

m1rucui0us Escape.
The fertile imaginatiou ofthe most
sensational novelist or playwright sci :.
dom PRODUCES anything ct oil protn-
BILE which has not its parallel in
strict tr,Ah. We are now 10 tell .
story Of three cities, Lswos {Dah-
ware), Philadelphia, and New Yock,
which would be incredible were is
not that our faets are obtained from
wholly trustworthy sources. On tho
l1th Of March last, Captain 8. a.
Mills, Of New York city, was drown.
cd, or, rs it has since turned out,
merely supposed TO be drowned, at
Lewes, Del. He fell overheard from
his schooner. Upon the body being
recovered, and every attempt to re-
store life had failed, il was placed in
q coffin, aud then again in the usual
outer box, and shipped by Adams
Express to the friends Of the unfor-
tunate man in New York city.
II remained in Philadelphia from
6 p. m. TO l O. m. Upon its arrival
in New York the certificate Of the
Lewes, Del, doctor was discovered
to be somewhat informal, and tho
advice Of the Board of Health was
asked. II was at last concluded TO
open the cases, and when this was
done the man was found to be ..
live. The best medical aid was i'm
mediately called in, and it was ere
long thought possible TO remove the
captain with safety to the Bellevue
Hospital, where he now r. He 10
not only doing we'll, there is every
probability Of his speedy and per-
manent recovery.--How he existed
in those airless cases passes compre-
hension. He was boxed up for thir-
ty five hours, length Of time very
few persons would care TO attempt
existence merely without drink or
food.
He will live to tell his strange ex-
perienco. The would be novelist
will here find a mine. Was he un-
conscious the while, or was the ter.
rible fate which seemed inevitable
present to his understanding are
questions it would be interesting to
have answered. We trust that in
mercy it was not permitted him to
know aught until his awakening, for
If he was conscious during his jour.
ney, the mental torture may have 20
worked upon him that he will live
his term with darkened mind.
His case is most extraordinary
one, and should have the examina-
ton of medical experts. Doubtless
the officers Of the Adams Express
Office in this city will give auy addi.
tional information to those who wish
to study and are capable Of study.
ing the affair. The beauty and
pleasure of death by drowning has
time and again been written OF, and
if any are capable of giving their
personal experience Of such an oc-
currence clearly, Captain Mills can
do 30, for he was 30 nearly drowned
that he must have known all but the
final gasp Of death.
How narrowly he escaped being
buried alive may be imagined from
the fact that up to the time of open
ing the box there was no idea that
he lived. Even then he might have
been sent to his grave had not the
peculiar flush upon his face attracted
attention. One may we'll shudder
remembering how difficult il souae-
times is to tell the living from the
dead, and that the imagination can
picture nothing more horrible than a
breathing man consigned to tomb.
We have heard Of other incidents
where the living have been all but
buried, and indeed buried, but we
do not call to mind case as won
derful as this in all It's details. As
bearing upon the affair, the intense
cold about March IL should be 70
membered. Press.