Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-01
Suspended Animation.


REVfVES on THE EVE OF HEX BURIAL
a TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
MILWAUKEE, WIS, Oct 2l-Br.
4 j b. Baxter. Of this city, formerly
surgeon Of the Second Wisconsin
I Volunteers, has just returned from
/ Black River Falls with remarkable
story of seeming raising of the dead.
/ The doctor haas "a son nlaw liyiu
near Black River Falls, who is also
+ a physician, whom he hAs been yi>iy-
ing The country physician has
I patient, young lady who had to-
Ham appearance died three days be
fore. She Was laid la her coffin,
/ but her appearance was SO litehke
! that he was unwilling that the bur
I iai should take place. The family
Insisted that She wa, dead, but a
( young man ID whom she was en-
gagged sided with the doctor, and
the interment was postponed even
after the friends and the minister
had put in an appearance at the
/ house. None could discover any
yltalit,, but still there was nothing
in the appearance of the body that
indicated decay, and the fourth day
il was determined to 90 on with the
/ last solemn offices to the dead.
The young physician, on DR.. Bax-
ter's arrival, related the crcum
stances to him, with a request that
/ he attend the funeral. Il accom-
panied my friend to the home where
! the hody Of the young lady lay"
said Dir. Baxter. "Wh hen we reached
the house the friends of the family
had already arrived, and the otficiat-
inc minister had gone through a
part of the services in the room
where the body lay-a prayer | think
it was-and the family had taken
their last farewell of beautiful girl.
When | stepped into the room the
undertaken had the casket lid in his
hand ready to screw it down. No
sooner did see the face in the casket
than felt sure that life was not eX-
tinct. There was not the falntest
pulse that | could detect, but when
I laid my ear close upon her breast
! was confident that | heard the
faintest heartbeat. So certain was
then that it was a case of catalepsy
that | did not hesitate moment to
7 apply the proper remedies.
. Imagine if you can the scene when
the young lady uttered suddenly a
piercing scream and rose up in her
coffin. 1t was the most awful note
of agony that | hope ever to hear
The room was filled with friends
besides the family and domestics
Several ladies' tainted outright, some
screamed and went into Mysteries,
= and servants ran out into the yard
{ and confess that, though | was ey
pecting to see her revive, my own
nerves were so shaken by the sud
deuness of the occurrence that il
was with great difficulty that | could
! stand
j She then got out of the coffin and
, down from the table with very little
assistance. BY this time the tumult
in the room had in a measure sub
sided, and she then tod us what was
e the most fearful part of the whole
{ experience-that she had been en-
tirelv conscious the entire time. She
had heard all that was said and
knew all that was going on around
her. She had felt herself being
shrouded and laid in the coffin; had
+ heard her friends weeping over heI
Z before the coffin lid should close
over her forever, and thought She
should surely be buried alive. Mean
, while, though she tried her utmost
she was unable to move or utter ;
sound. Her friends looked upol
her as given back to them from tn,
grave, and, indeed, in the country
: around it is reported that | reall!
Z did raise her from the dead, anC
!, after left they told that the countr,
people flocked in crowds 70 see me.