Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1873-05-15
a Miraculous Escape.

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I 4 Man Drowned in Delaware and
sent by Express 10 New York
is taken from His Coffin Alive.
[FrOm the RhilAdslphts Press, April 12.J
The fertile. imagination of the
most sensational novelist or play
wrightseldom prodrCed anything
at all probsble which has not its
/ paraIlet in. stfictstfuth.he1We are
now to tell elLa-stery-ef1thFee-eities
.lI1Lewes, Del. philadelphia and
New York-which would be in
credible were it not that our facts
are obtained from wholly trust
worthy sources. .0a the llth OF
last month. ( (Mareh) Capt. S. Il.
Mills, of New York, city, was
drowned, or as it has since turned
out, merely supposed to be drown
led, at Le*es, Del He fell oyer
board from his schooner. Upon
the body being recovered, andafter
every attempt to restore Efe had
failed, it was placed in coffin, and
then again in the usual outer box
and shipped BY Adams express to
the friends of the unfortunate man
in New York city, tanoz.yq
Il remained in Philadelphia
froml6 P. NJ. to l 4. NJ. Upon its
arrival in New York the certifi-
cate of the Lewes Del, doctor
was discovered TO lie somewhat
informal, apao the advice OF the
Board IF Health was asked. It
was at Fast concluded, to open the
cases, and when this was done the
mao was found to be alive. The
best Biedicalaid was called In, and
it was ere long thought possible to
remove the Captain with safety to
the Bellevue Hospital, where he
howis. He is not only doing well,
but'there isoeVery probability of q
speedy 1and permanentoreeovery.
How be existed confined within
these airless cases passes compre-
hension.. He was boxed up for
thirty-fve hours, length Of time
very few persons would care to
attempt existence merely without
food or drink. .si-ra.r.-.l
He will live to tell his strange
The would BE- noyei-
list viii find here a mine. Was be
the while, or was the
terrible fate which seemed inevita-
bic present to his understanding.
are questions it would be interest
ing to have answered. We trust
that in mercy1t was not permitted
him to know aught until his Il
Weakening, for if be was conscious
during his journey, the mental tor-
ture may have so worked upon
him that he will live his term with
1arkeued mind l "
His case is certainly a most ex-
traordinary one, ard Should have
the examination of medical ex-
perts. Doubtless the officers OF
the Adams Express Office in this
city will give any additional mfor-
Ipation to those who wish 10 sludy
aud are capable of studying the
affair The beauty and pleasure
IF death by drowning, has time snd
again been written of, and if any
lre capable of giving their person.
al experience of such an occur
renee clearly, Capt. Mills can de-
70, for he was 50 nearly drowned
that he must have known all but
he final gasp Of death.
How narrowly he escaped be-
ing buried alive may be imagined
rom the fact that up to the time
IF opening the box there was no
dea that he lived, Even then be
might have been sent to his grave
had not the peculiar flush upon
lis face attracted attention. One
may we'll shudder remembering
low difficult il sometimes is to
-ell the living from the dead, and
hat the Imagination can Hcture
mere horrible than
breathing mau cOnsignedtoa tomb.
We have heard of other incidents
where the living have been ali but
buried, and indeed buried, but we
10 not call to mind case as wOn-
1erful IS this in all its details.
As bearing upon the affair, the in
tense cold about March 1lth
should BE- remembered. ..-
Mr.. Disraeli's name has been
pronounced in almost as many