, 1889-08-29
BEAT THE TELEGRAPH.
DIR. y. B. Campbell Tells How His
Soul Made "a Journey of 500 Miles
I'm Short Order.

DIR. j. d. Campbell, of Fairmount,
July %, made return to the health
officer of the death of Jonas Kuntz, q
farmer of Sykesyille, Jefferson county,
Pa, says Cincinnati special The death
was to all accounts an ordinary one, and
no report was made to the coroner and
no special mention of it was made in the
newspapers. But from developments
since, and from the doctors own printed
statements, the death was due to n fall
down the stairs at the doctors yitapathic
college mt Fairmount, at Q o'clock Sun
caused conclusion of the brain, from
which death resulted twenty four
hours later. Here Is an account of the
peculiar death written by the doctor
himself, in which he attempts to estab-
iish an alleged wonderful soul conf
munion, but in which he makes no cx-
planation as to why he did not report
TO the coroner and the health office the
facts of the death as herein stated:
SUNDAY morning, July 2i at 2
o'clock, Jonas kuntz, young man Is
years of age, a very sick patient, who
week before, escaped the vigilant care
of his nurse and going to the stairway
fell down, producing n conclusion of the
brain, so with his other ailments no
died in twenty-four hours after the ac-
cident. There were no telegraphic
Il
sylvania, or mails that could reach the
parents as quickly as we wished. So on
the night after the accident, when the
Young man was about to die, | wished
toyreach the parents with the sad intelli-
gencc that their son was dying.
al sat down in his room in the pres
enco of others as the young man was
breathing his last and passing into q
trance state l became clairvoyant, and
with u strong desire my soul left my
body and went some 500 miles to Penn.
sylvania to find his parents. l soon
reached the place, found the house and
entered finding the parents in bed asleep,
all unconscious of the condition of their
dying child. attempted to arouse
| them and did arouse their souls, and to
make sure that had found the right
persons aud for ii test inquired if they
We're the parents of Jonas kuntz and
was answered YES then inquired the
mans first name as / did not know L
inquired, for further test to myself, if he
had middle name, and was told that
he wrote his name John w. kuntz, and
this proved to be correct.
"Thc parents awoke, saying to each
other, Something is wrong Jonas is
q ing or dead Mr. Kuntz, the father,
hunted up the Rev. b. $. Aletzgar, and
they both came here as fast as possible,
and did not know by other mothodS that
the young man was dead until they
arrived here. | returned to my body in
time to witness the death scene. | saw
large angel standing ut the young
mans right side, making passes with his
hands upward as if he would draw the
young mans soul out of his body. Then
saw group of dozen Of angels just
above him and receiving the freed soul
as radiant with smiles and happy in its
newborn immortality it arose"
Campbell is president of the American
Health College at Fairmount. Regular
physicians do not recognize IL, but the
institution has several hundred students
from all sections of the country. Reli-
able people in the ncighborhood say that
gar assured them that they received
no communication regarding young
Kuntz's death except that received by
the boys parents while they slept.