The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-10-26
cONvERrED INTO STONE.
A Man Who Underwent Petriflcs.
ton While Alive and Whose
Limbs Had to be Broken
to Place Him IN the
Coffin.

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I Zone of the most heartrenderin,
cases that ever came under nv nc
tice," said a we'll known Lnuisvill
physician to several gentlemen wh
mad been discussing DR.. Tanners pr os
pct of miserable death, '.was tina
Of a man whose death could not effec
his relations, because he had none
but the manner of his dying was s.
awful that it was call upon common
humanity for sorrow. He was q
young fellow who at the breaking Oul
Of the war. when he was twenty year.
old. enlisted and fought with courage
under confederate banners. In the
terrible warfare about Nashville be
WIS exposed to the rains and colds,
and contracted i,.Aammatory rheuma.
tism from which he never recovered.
and which caused his resignation
He returned to his nome q miserabl.
creature, and never WAS able after
ward 20 walk. For fifteen long wears
he was dying as slowly end surely.
aud with rs much torture, as the
most refined crueiIies of human inven.
,ioa might have produced. Opistes !?
Of Course opiates were administered.
nut what Of the moments when the
influence had waned, aud when, rush
ing upon him like wolves Of torture,
made ravenous by hunger. the pains
broke through the veil Of inseusibility
and tuyged at his frame With teeth of
cruelty? The very immunity which
opium give added another horror
when it was Withdrawn.
He was kept under their influence.
Ia nine wears he lost every
power Of muscular effort, and sat in
his chair living corpse, only to be
moved to. his bed, where he became q
mummy with the spark of life still
glowing. The time shortly came
when he NO longer lay in his bed. but
sitting in his chair became the en-
embodiment of q soul too
for lite. too sacred t. be
freed by other hands. So he sat year
after year, with his muscle mixed 10
iron, his ewes looking upon . world as
dreary as misery could paint it; his
voice sinking in his throat, only to be
expelled by hunted nature in wild
and piteous cries when the pain rack
ed into hopeless cowardice the strong
heart that had led his men up to the
dreadful caverns of csnn0u's mouths
without finch. Fixed and rigid. |
the poor Iny was a sphinx, endowed
with life aud deprived of movement. !
Every joint in his body became ossi-
led by the chalky deposits. and not
even a movement that provoked |
iesthiess agony became possible. !
Even the joihts Of his neck became
-igid. the fingers stiff. and the limbs
,e,rified. He was a stone frame,
with a covering of flesh and the soul OF
living man. the muscles Of the eye |
ven failed. and the lids falling upon
he weary halls shut in forever the
darkness that was about him like The
loom Of the grave.
Then came, with the same step of
measured eternity. the o-si6cation Of
he points Of the jaw, and he was fed
etween the rigid teeth. How sluwIy
cath moved cannot BE- described, but
;hen the inflammation had seized his
cart in that last prolonged spasm, ma
IRE no longer conld give warning Of
What tortures took place under that
rawn curtain of human misery, can
D more he told than the secrets of
nose horrors in the lowest dungeons
the inquisition. Death came, but
was like the fading Of the mist-lines
Ito the clouds. and az ~e stood about
rat chair no one dared to utter his q
,ought no one could tell whether g
he soul lurked in the prism, or c
heiher death Was life. or life was .
esth. When he was buried his fixed
nbs were broken with hammers. 10 {
der that he might be placed in q
fin. q
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