Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-02-13
philadelphia Times. Jan. 3l.l
The Bead Come TO Life.

at seven O'Clock on Sunday morning
Grape hung by the door of the dwelling
I23 Mary street. thoroughfare between
Carpenter street and Washington
avenue, in the Second Ward. The
neighbors.' who knew the story of long
and painful illness, said: Poor Mr..
Schrack has gone at lastw Word was
sent to the doctor that he need attend
his patient no longer. The undertaken
was visited. In Old Sweedes' (Glor a
Deb church Mr.. Schrack's death was
announced and the Sunday-schoo
scholars commented upon the death OF
the teacher they had learned to love.
Atll o'clock, four hours lator, the
Grape was torn down from beside the
dwelling in Mary street. The order for
the undertaken was countermanded. The
doctor was told to hurry to his patient.
The Sunday-sch scholars in Old
Swedes' church were about passing a
resolution of coincidence with their
teachers orphaned boy when the pas
tor, Rev. S. B. Shines, was handed a piece
Of paper bearing the single word, hastily
written, Revived" The neighborhood
wassoon thick with rumors, all having
for their purport the coming ofthe dead
to life. Among those who had an INK
ling of the facts it was generally agreed
that something not far short OF a
miracle had happened. The story is a.
remarkable one.
]. Harry Schrack, once a wealthy
merchant. lost nearly all his fortune by
indorsing the notes Of others, who were
either ingrates or were themselves un-
fortunate. With his only son, his wife
and two children having died, he has for
some time past resided in ancat little
house on Mary street, above Front.
For the last four months he has been
seriously i'll, with nervous spasms oil
the heart. During the latter part oflaSt
week he himself gave up all hope OF
living, and the attending physician, DR..
James H. Cantrell, expected his patients
death momentarily.
stR. SCHRACK DIES.
| Apparently Mr.. Schrack died at twenty
minutes Of O'Clock on Sunday morning
His limbs became cold and rigid, his
| lips colored purple, and around his
mouth was the blue mark. generally
supposed to betoken d ath. a hand
mirror was placed over his mouth but
its shining surface was not dimmed.-
/ His friends and neighbors who stood
around pronounced him dead, and
crieved for HIM. \ few hours alter
ward the body was completely stripped
that it might be prepared for the under
takers hands. Before washing the
corpse it was necessary to remove it
from the bed. A neighbor, Mr.. Charles
Shankland, lifted the body, when, to
his alarm. &c distinctly heard feeble
oroan. A hurried examination dcvel-
opcd the fact that the man was not dead.
The body was wrapped in blankets and
bottles of hot water placed between
them. Mr. Shankland hurried for the
doctor, and. returning quickly, acted
funder the instructions he had received
until the doctor arrived. In short
time Mr.. Schrack had regained con-
sciousness, and was sitting up IN bed;
more than that, the man who before
was lying at deaths door, and who was
terribly afflicted with disease, was
almost as sound and well as ever he
was in his life. Mr.. Schrack dreaded
the idea of his peculiar case being made
public, but, if the particulars were to be
related. he said he would prefer narrat-
inc them himself. 50 that the statement
might be correct. A Times represen-
tative yesterday found him sitting up in
bed. with a bright color in his checks,
and looking like anything but a corpse.
He is young man, probably thirty
years Of age. good talker, and intellI-
gent. He spoke in hoarse whisper,
not the result of his illness, but caused
by his catching a slight cold in con-
sequence of the perspiration he was
thrown into by the remedies employed
TO revive him. He spoke earnestly OF
his experience, but was vivaclous and
smiling, and at times joked about the
expressions of the doctor when he found
him alive. He tells his story as follows
THE DEAD MANS STORY.
last September had a terrible at
tack of hemorhage Of the lungs, and
since then | have not been able to dc
anything except for one period OF three
. weeks. My health at times was fair
, but three weeks ago | felt that | was
going fast. Ny flesh left my body; my
, entire appearance changed; my appetite
was gone. Everything l swallowed
was at once thrown off my stomach
Last Thursday a week l found l would
have to give up. l felt as though the
, power of action in my limbs was leay'
ing me. was fearful Of going to bed
/ aud so | sat in a chair for three days
t and nights. then made up my mind
, that would have to die, and l asked
/. to be put to bed. Wednesday night
was taken with something like a chill
and spasms at the heart. After coming
through that l seemed to revive until
last Saturday. Every hour during thai
, day | experienced a change. While
. the right hand would be purple the left