The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-13
NARROWLY ESCAPED BURIAL
ALIVE.

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Remarkable Case of Catalepsy Re-
ported from st. Louis-Brought Back
to Life.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 6.--An afternoon
paper prints a sensational story of a re-
mar liable case Of catale9sy reported from
South ST. Louis, the name bsing sup
pres sed for the alleged reason that the vic
ii n is so weak that the excitement certain
to be arous d by a knowledge Of her ide ltty
and conseqI ent calls by curb IS neig )rs
would be atal. T estory is to the effect that
young married woman % wears of age vas
i'll her c1ffia aad alb out to b taken out for
burial when her husband saw her arm
m We, ordered her t. be taken out of the
coffin at once, and called in two physi ians,
who, after an examination, pro ounced
life not extinct, and began a process of
resuscitation. Their efforts were successful,
and the woman was in a snort time broug Mt
back to Consciousness. This story was Oh
ia ned fro her sister, young married
W )man, who lived at 721 South Four h
street. Tho sister related the following
facts in connection with the strange case:
Last Monday my sister, who had been
sick for but few days, die /, as far as we
could see, and the attending physician pro-
nounced her dead, and her husband pro-
ceedad to make arrangements for the
funeral A coffin was cured and when
the supposed cor pse was dressed it was laid
in the coffin The intention was to have
{ 70 funeral Tuesday after loon. Friends of
the family visited the hou and mourne1
over the ,dy. Tuesday afternoon. a short
time before the closing of the c0ffi was to
have taken place, ny brother-in-law vas
standing beside the bier lookin on the face
of his wife wnen the arm of my sister
moved. Her hu band saw it and was nat
urally much startled He Informed III 'se
in the roo in an excited ma ,ner of what
he had seen, aad nv 81 t r was at once
taken from the coffin AMI placel on bed
and o phi sicians 81 nmoned.
They placed glass in front Of my sis
tcr's face could at once perceive the
81 yns of breath up N it. Tl4y the bsgll
to work wit her, a d after ort while
more positive signs of life began to apDear.
She KEEP breathing better all the time and
finally bsca ne conscious. The mo It t'rrii-
BILE feature about it a is that she knew
perfectly everything that was going on
around her. When she W s bsing dressed
for burial she realized what wa be ng
done and tried her best to sh wv signs of
life, but could not do So When she vas
placed tbs III \ an awful fesling of what
was t. be r doom came over her, and she
says she tried to scream and thought that
she succeeded, but of course she di no."
The story was further corroherated BY A.
Hartwig, grocery keeper at No. 827 So1th
Fourth street. who said he saw the girl who
told the story, dressed in black aid crying,
going bv his store Monday, a I'd when his
ife ask al hi n what the matter wa she
said her sister was lad and she was going
to the funeral sac after wards told then
The story Of her sister being brought hack
% life. All efforts to ascertain the nams of
the woman VINO came so near being buris I'd
alive or the Ia mes of the pay ,icians IN at
tendance have us far fail d.