The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-05-03

Two SISTERS DIE VERY SUDDENLY.-A 4
Remarkable COincideBce.-On Sunday after
noon, April 21st, Mrs. Springer, wife of
Mr.. Peter Springer, of Barr township, this
county feeling unwell, retired to her room
and with a newspaper in hand lay down on
the bed to read and If possible Tecuperate
her wasted energies She was permitted TO
remain undisturbed for an hour or two, after
which q member of the family went to call
her to supper, when she was found lying on
the bed apparently fast asleep, but closer
examination revealed the startling fact that
her seeming slunber was the long sleep of
death. II the silence of her chamber, and
without the consoling presence of a single
relative or friend to sOOthe her last moments,
her life had gone out and of course the mys-
terry attendant upon her dissolution will for
ever remain secret. But apoplexy or some
kindred ailmenJ, which does its work with
the swftuess of the lightning's fash is pro-
badly the true explanation. The body pre-
served a singular degree of warmth and
fexibility for a day OF two, butit was finally
determined to a certainty that Death had
done its work, aud on the following Wednes-
day forenoon what was mortal of an estima-
ble woman were laid to rest in the Catholic
cemetery at St. Nicholas
The foregoing announcement, though sad
to a degree, contains nothing uncommon as
to deaths doings. But in connection with
the celebration of a requiem mass in the
village church for the soul of the deceased,
just prior to the cOmnttal of the body TO its
last 6dTJnlN resting place, CCCuTTeOi, IN we
are reliably informed, an incident which
may be said 20 border on the confiDes OF the
supernatural.
The coffin had been borne into the chancei
of the church, and during the progress of the
impressive services, two loud and distinct
knocks were heard in rapid succession at
the right hand side of the altar. No one
being at the time near the point whence the
sounds emanated, the knocks could not, of
course be ascrihed TO human agency = but
that they were distinctly heard by all present
is said to be fact beyond controversy. The
circumstances itself was brought prominent
ly to remembrance by the receipt of a letter
a few days later containing the sad an
nOuncement of the death. in Philadel phia,
of sister of Mrs. Springer at the precise mo-
meHt when the knocks were heard in the
church This sister, who was n religieuse
of the charity order, had such a violent
shock communicated to her system by the
news of the uuloolIed-fOr death of Mrs.
/ Springer, that her own death speadily fol-
lowed in much the same unexpected man.
ner. We have given these particulars with
out any attempt at establishment. They
constitute a strictly accurate statement :,
based OH information we deem stiCtly re-
liable, and viewed in the aggregate, furnish
food for much more than momeutary refiec-
tion. We offer no explanation, for the re-
iationship existing between mind and mat
ter is of too subtitle character for our pen TO
portray. Still the whole thing should not
be dismissed by him who is wise in his own
| cOnceit with a simple pOoh-pOoh for verify
there iare stranger things, Horatio, than
have ever been dreamt of in thy philosophy.