The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-01-10
RlE ALIVE.
mas vhss Awful Horror Ever Really DC
e-urreA-aeveral Instances Cited.

eating review of noted cases of prcnia-
TURF burial. In 1s6i "a most dramatic
scene occurred i'm the French Senate-a
scene i'm real life that would have been
voted improbable on the stage.
A petition had been presented pointing
ont the dangers of hasty interments and
suggesting measures for their prevention.
NJ. de Ia G-ueronniere proposed to sheive
il. but the venerable Cardinal bonnet,
archbishop Of Bordeaux, arose i'm suppDrt
of the petition.
His arRument was long and interesting.
He had himself he said. while yet a cure,
saved several persons from being buried
alive. He had seen ~ man taken from
his coffin and restored to health. He had
seen the body of n young lady laid out for
dead, the attendants covering her face as
he entercd. ye, llow,"E nm N. :" w "Dse r"s
dead, but sleeping. With - loud voice ne
cried out that he was come tai save her..
..b b%" s "% h hear r'~ " has | ann aging"
her numbed sensations. she made q
mighty effort and woke INTO life.
ssThat young girl" said tho archbishop,
i'm the midst 81 q profound silence, is to-
day 2 wife, the mo'hsr OF Sh ~. rsn., and And
Hut the archbishop had another and
still more impressive story tai tell. I'm ls3i
a young priest tainted in the pulpit and
was given up for dead. He was measured
for the coffin, the funeral bell was .tolicd,
the DE profundis was rsscited by episcopal
lips. Meanwhile the emin corpse
could hear all that was going on. "You
was the agony of the liv-
iuv i'm that situation. Al last, amid
the murmurs around him he distinguished
the voice of one known To him from child
hood. The voice produced u marvellous
effect and stimulated him tn superhuman
effort. OF what followed | need say no
more than that the seeming dead man
stood next day i'm the. pulpit from which
he had been taken FOR dead. ''That young
mans voice thrilled every listener, ..that
vnrnu nriest Is the man who stands bs,-
fore you to-day, more than 40 years later,
entrsatiup thoss. i'm authority not merely
To vigorously enforce execution of legal
reuuircmrnts i'm regard to burials, but to
enact fresh ones that may prevent the o.
la spite Of the official resistance the
senate voted that the petition should he
referred to the minister of the interior.
Some of it's notifications of existing laws
were eventually adopted. but the French
like the English, have always resisted the
innovation of mortuaryc chambers, such as
the Germans and other nations have
OPT. in which the dead are retained
for "a time before intcrmen Here meclan-
ical a%ppliances are so arranged that the
slightest motion Oh the part of the buried
would sound AN alarm and sun,mon am
attendant. Since 1873, however, when the
system was adopted, not a single ease of
appars.nt death has been proved to occur,
OF course this negative evidence cannot
he cited as conclusive either for or against
the system.
History is full of instances of burial dur
ing suspended animation, many of which
from their Vrewsorne and startling char
actcr have passed into literature. Duns
Scotus. known as the Subtle, is said to
have. been buried while in "A iii, i'm the alb
ser,ce of his servant and of all who knew
that such fits were periotlical with him.
When ths. servant returned ne insisted ON
oueniuv the vault. The corpse WAS fo,nd
dead then beyond hone. hui hearing ali
the evidence of a terrible str,luplc. one
hand being bitten Off and half eaten. Ii
was no doubt the. finding of other cornscs
in "a similar rendition after b,r nj th,t led
TO the hiJsous medieval su,scrstition of
ampir,s which fed upou human boiies.
Of ,icad-aIivc ladies brn,,vLt In cnn.
sciousuess Inv grave robbers. coy,to,Is OF
the ring u,,o,. their cold finuers- NEARLY
every country has ia own story. A we'll
authsntiC.tci iustance haut,s.u,.i M Dro0-
hesia, Ireland, i'm the last century, and
was LronvLt hack tn unbIic ntt,ntinn in
Iaa Inv the death of one Miss Hartman al
that r,l,,.c. Ti,a lady. who wns 10 v,m,rs
of age. left orders thai she should mot be
buried until eight laws after th.. r,hysi-
clan nr,,,n,n,..I her ,icnI- Her mother.
il anprnrs. had been buried while. i'm "a
trance. and was rescued only NV th.. GU
niditv ~ ths. family hu,tl..r s..,L inc nt
niUht "a, ,,rss.,ss himself az "A rinV ,,,o,
her finy..r' ~
.cIcbrn,cd romance of r.nl life.
which, has also fonnI ,nrio,s counter.
narts n,r ,r loss nuth.nticnted i'm all
ianIs .n.I ,cr;sis il III. EIorcn,in.. story