Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-05-14
DYING FIVE TINES.
A Man Who O9ren Died and a.
Orten Game 70 Life.
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hA4y ~ the quicksilver miners al this
place havs been united for work d4Tiag
the lass car seeks o. shs sin gulaF cir
eanlsr8Hcss attending TIE sicknsss zai
death ~ one Of their Number. About a
month ag0 Augustine +. GAbrielson, who
hal i0ng ~orxsd ia ths mines, fell SEX
Win ~haE Appeared - DO some fora Of
fever aad after three or four days illness
be apparen , dlei. T~5 or thrss Of hls
associates were with aim A. TIE time, and
they. ~.th some others. pat him IA as eof-
n ths next day. That night two miners
SAT up WHh the corpse. goiag on duty at
about nine o'clock They had bottle aud
soas pipes, and along toward midnight
they began % tell stories OF early days In
this section. The men had their backs -
the tin, and had Just enjoyed good
Iaash over one OF their yarns, when there
was a ehuckle ia ia g gloomy corner where
the cortia lay - hich caused their blood 80
run cold Turning around quickly, they
saw Gabriels0n sitting bold upright IN his
colln, and heard from his own lips, aD
they sat speeches., the following story:
That reminds me, boys, Of a story they
used 10 tell here twenty five years ago,
wnsn l hrst came into tho d ggin's. There
wasn't any such crowd here then as there
Is now, but nearly everybody who came
here had an idea that there was silver
here. One day party OF smart ehaps
came along and said they knew that ths
Spaniards had mined mere for silver and
got It. | knew they hadn't, and so did
lots Of orner people, but nothing would
convince them. They had TO investigate.
They roamed ali around for few days,
pretending 10 be locating certain points,
and then they drew angles and made
measurements in a mysterious sort of
way. AT length they got our curiosity
aroused, and We half came 10 the conclu
sion that they had got a pointer sOme-
where and that may be il would be just
well 10 stand in with thcm. From that
time on they had things all their own way.
IL they wanted Us TO turn our backs We
would do lt. and il they had invited the
whole camp TO go out into the mountains
and leave them alone / guess it
would have been done. After
this sort OF thing had been going
on awhile they suddenly disappeared, and
when the camp came 10 investigate it was
discovered that they had stolen every
our ce OF quicksilver that we had on hand.
A madder and hotter crowd you never
saw. We followed them for forty miles,
but lost all track of them, and finally,
after losing three or four weeks time, we
returned and went 10 work. A slicker
gOuge you never saw, but for ten years
after that time no stranger ever got more
than the commonest courtesies in this
camp"
The two watchers asked a few questions,
and laug he'd a little, and the man lay back
in ais coffin as IL tired ami weak. Then
be seemed to notice that he was not in
bed. and on rising again uttered scream
and would have fallen 10 the floor IL his
watchers had not seized him. He was then
conducted back To bed, and for two or
three days was delirious, and apparently
very low. At the end OF the fourth day be
apparently died again, and was once more
laid out for burial. This time he was
watched more closely, and a few hours
aftr he was placed in the coffin a second
time It was noticed that there were signs
OF returning color in his lips, and after a
little rubbing he opened his eyes again
BY this time the miners were all deeply
interested in the case, and every day they
would call TO the last man 70 hear the
latest news. Some OF them grew supersti-
tious and declared that the trouble was
warning TO everybody. Gabrielson be-
came quite lively on this occasion. and it
was thought for a time that be would re-
cover but at the end OF the fifth day he
began TO fail again, and on the evening OF
the sixth day he apparently died as be-
fore. The miners insisted that he be taken
out in the fresh air, but the doctor aid he
was dead now for sure, and that it would
be borbarous to expose the body to the air.
While no further action in this line was
taken, il was agreed that the corpse should
be left in bed two or three days and
watched. During this time it was i'm
poss BILE TO get any work done. Every body
hung around. and all the liars in the camp
did their best TO entertain the loafers
with stories OF the supernatural On
The second day GabrieIson came to life
again aud took medicine.
he news was promptly communicated
to the waiting crown on the outside, and
50 great was the joy that all save one or
twe watchers INDUCED in a celebration
which lasted until the sick man died once
close. The strain on the nerves of the
populace had become terrific by this time,
and one Of the miners set up as a revival
ist. calling on all TO repent, for the last
day was evidently near at hand. While
these religious ceremonies were going on
preparations were once more made TO
bury the dead man, but on the day set for
ne funeral he came 20 life again for the
fourth time Sc excited were the people
that they made up their minds that Ga
rieison was hewitched, and an effort was
made to discover some means Of exorcis-
ing the evil spirit Another doctor had
b en- sent for. and he. in company with the
o ~ FIRST in attendance. msd9 a determined
EFFORT to save the sick man. but without
avail tie died again on Tuesday night.
sna as IA was still dead on Sunday. il was
scided 60 bury him Both doctors pro-
nognced him dead beyond hope. and the
men themselves made up their minds that
sl was over. When all were agreed on
this point the coffin iid was screwed on.
AMI the remains Of Gabrie'son were borne
= the grave
This morning a man passing by the cen1-
found ar..~~ss,r,r,s --rlr ~, tha