Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-03-09
,vo Hundred Cases in Which llY-
inn Persons Have Been
Treated as lead.
-xpsriercss and Adventures of
Persons Who Have sssn
Buried AliYs.
.omlpa TO Life on a 0lssscting
Tahla-.-Ia a Grave for
Thirty Days.
HE Horrible Fate Which May Do
tie Lot of Any Person
Now Living.

The popular horror and fear OF being
buried while in trance state has
within \ recent period receiving a fresh
spur by two well attested instances, In
one of which the awful mistake was
made, and in the other the person
seemingiy dead recovered 1T the mo-
n tent the lid was about to be screwed
an tue coffin in which she lay dressed
kDr the grave. The latter case occurred
In Wisconsin, and its details ale yet
fesh in the minds Of the newspaper
kadipg puOlic. The Other case
i - THAI OF \ woman in n small OHIO
4nwn. Her body, on the grave being
A gyucd some days after the burial, was
tuud with the twisted limbs
Ia c,atOrted, the hair torn
E.. aud the imprint of her
kNill struggles for life LETT upon
t. distorted features. The imaglua-
fiuu uf the most powerful writer couId
] lu nttge 20 the horror Oi the brief tele-
kaIhiC gCruuut, or make It's reaiIGa-
4 on clearer 20 the mind.
4 The pheuGmeua o, q prolonged sus-
! nsiuu %! animation in human beings
/ with reference 10 its cause y puzzle 10
atlulcgists. Medical books abound
Sith instances OF involuntary susnen-
kiou OF the faculties, during which state
L. many of the cases mentioned, all
gus o. life are wanting. The PATIENTS
body is cold and rigid, the eyes ilmy.
Mention Is made OF very severe tests 70
determine whether the mysterious vital
j; alh Was ye: remaining, being without
tr,,t. That many persons have ba+u
b.,.rd IN this state is little doubt.
Rr.aier, one writer ON medicine, h.S
frueCltd $50
WeiI-AuGhentIcatedC Cases
"a ,,r-uns treated as dead who are liv-
ia .. Of th,se tifIy-twO were buried
altve, four reached the diSSec;ing table,
And revived under the scslpel, fifty
Aree recovered on being placed in their
|tOilius, aid seysnty-twO awOke from
6n apparent death.
a These cheerful figures are met by the
sopiniOns Of some Of the highest living
authorities that whether u person is
geally dead, or in a state ClOsel y resem-
Ming ii, may be demonstrated by any
killed physician. Various methods are
kivCn, the simplest and suresc of which
cDnsists IN keeping the body until de-
rbmPOsl,!un appears.
In certain paris Of Germany the
NidespIead fear Otb.ilg tul0mbet alive
has causys the establishment of houses
nrOyided with means Of determining
whether lie has l,Owu. Tue body is
hid upon q Gier; cord, connected with
40 rXqui,itely hung bell, IS attached to
rs wrist. Inc slightest move OF the
arm Is sufficient TO set the bell Clang-
big, bring uE tue guard 10 ajd Ia every
Nay know. . siyucc the struggle back
10 life.
\ This German institution is uadOubt-
sGly relic OF laws enacted by the
Romans, who derived them from the
,rpekS, AMI whom carried them among
HE TeU,Ous when they oyerran and
conquered tne country. EmpedOCles, q
great GreciAu physician, discovered
>igTS Of life IN "A woman laid upon her
funeral ~ aid about to Oe bJrned.
He caused Lex 10 be removed, and
Restored Her 10 Health
similar ras.s afterWsrd added to the
new sensation this one afforded the
AthenisDS, aud law was finally made
prohibiting iu.ermeut until three days
had elapsed. Custom extended the
period to the seventh day.
IA Plato, Asclepiadss, and Pliny give
igraphic accounts of instances Of the
ftranCe state which came directly under
their observation. The Romans dur
iug Pliuy's time had attention turned
H. Il by an lnquisitiye physician who is
kuu about 10 be cremated found there
Mas he remaining and helped it back
30 vigorous health. AviOla, another
Y Conan. was not 50 lucky. The heat OF
Die Turning pyre revived him, but be-
rlCre has irienGs could rescue him he fell
bark dead. lie inhaled the flames.
4 ne. rrrtor Lama shared a like fate,
Nhue IuberO, another pretOr, was
I fsved Just - the fire was lighted.
Lydia Maria Child has contributed to
EaNce literature a modern instance,
fLSt OF lady friend Of hers, as respect
1ie as me narrator. The story, which
prs. Child had from the lady herself, is
Plat she hat fallen sick Of an ordinary
illness, and l.. al appearances had died,
teT body ~ placed in a coffin and
surrounded for two DAYS by weeping
Friends, whose grief was mingled with
tcrror by the strong Indications of life
presented IN the flushed face aud moist
brow. fhe strangest part Of the story is
that the lady was not only sensible of
al the efforts made 10 resuscitate her
but that her spirit had quilted her body
||and, unseen,
she stood Among the MOurnerS
watching with them her own body.
She declared that she felt no fear but
much curiosity, and not until the
i comm Iid was shout to be screwed down
uld SHE realize she was to be buried
alye. Her spirit then returned 10 her
body, and, by an effort which seemed
10 OuTst her heart.strings, she moved,
sat up, and sErieked.l
! 4 gentleman now living in Boston.
Wen and hearty, while on a sea VOYAGE
lew years ago, became i'll and gradual
/ " sank into q trance. The dead on
n'poOSTd are quickly buried. Sewed
4 ~ III hammock, nine pound shot at
ms Ieet, his body placed upon a hamper
lsauy TO be cast INTO the ocean, his
SsOhlzed, naind,sll the while conscious,
nn to loosen the death-like grasp
~, ~ MS faculties. He family moved
,,aS iOot and was saved. The frightful
REelI turned his hair white. LADY
Lay SSGnei kussel, the wife Of an English
T ITtur gled In the bloom Of her beauty.
s bn eL devoted husband spent hours 6y
3 T SI sue i IN the family tomb lamenting
,n S .ost darling. The third day his
6 iO'T ~ eyes discovered a slight moisture
Il was ssr, nr9T. SummOning help she
4 bTsb Ur,5'ed back to the mansion. Her
& frsn g%lG wa, was pOwerleSs to assist and
Great i'E 10, via new born hope. To the
SiysdJ Joy ga "a Inc the family the lady was re-
hesjtbS S,o Go, nSed TO an advanced age, a
1 - NIlleF In Era-o.1-