St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-15
PHASES OF LIFE.

DR.. Everard Lind. of Boston, in dis
cussIng professional matters with
select cotere of his st. Paul colleagues
at the Merchants a few evenings ago,
gave it as his opinion that the number
of people who had been buried alive in
the last ten years IN the United States,
would make a respectable population
for city of the size of st. Paul. DR..
Lind has made study OF this
particular question, and is at present
preparing work for publication which
Shall give his observations and deduc-
TONS He has discovered that suspend
ed animation may result from innu-
merable causes, and that the habit OF
ascribing such condition to epilepsy
is in most cases incorrect. Persons of
sluggish temperament, he says, are
mostly in danger from the premature
performance of the undertaker'S
duty. Sluggish action of the
blood, clogging of the veins
and consequent suspension of the
hearts action are of frequent occur
renee, and the condition of the person
so afflicted resembles death so closely
that there is great danger of error in
the subsequent method of dealing with
the case. Several instances we're cited
which had come under his notice in the
course of his Investigations.
A body was exhumed at Trenton. N.
j., in the presence of DR.. Lind, upon
the statement of the relatives that the
dead man had been during his life sub
Ject to suspension of the hearts action,
and had several times been supposedly
dead before the final seizure. The body
had been kept eight days, however. and
the local physicians had pointed to a
darkening of the skin as sure indlca-
ton of decomposition, and the man
was buried. Events have proved be-
Yond doubt that this man was buried
alive and when the coffin was opened
the body was found lying face down.
ward, the death robes torn to ShredS.
and the remnants of the Shroud were
found in the clenched hands Of the vic
tim. Several other instances of SINH
liar character we're given, and by his
reasoning the doctor showed how easily
certain conditions may be mistaken for
death.
Fred B. Close, whose fatal injury in
polo game between LIE Mars and Sioux
City was chronicled by an Associated
Press dispatch yesterday, is Singularly
unlucky in his equestrian performances.
Mr.. Close was with his brother. the
founder of the English colony at LIE
Mars, and may be said to have done
more than any other in the matter of in
PRODUCING the SteeplechaSing phase of
horse racing into this country. He has
been horseman from his youth, and
before coming to America used to
pick out the stiffest fences in
the stitfest hunting country in the
kingdom to break his horses backs
over. On his native heath he is noted
for having had more falls than any man
in the hunt, and his Iowa career will
show innumerable instances wherein he
has taken header at the first fence.
On no less than four different occasions
he has been thrown on the LemarS
course and carried away with broken
collar bone. He has, without the
shadow OF adoubt, met with
more desperate accidents than any
other hard riding Britisher in the col
ony, but has invariably turned up
sound in few weeks. and ready for
another heat. The accident in the polo
match of Friday in which Mr.. Close is
said to have been fatally injured is only
one of hundred similar occurrences
in the past. Mr.. Close has MANY friends
IN ST. Paul who know his equestrian
record. and his proverbial luck in get
ting out of scrape entirely too well to
take it for granted that he has played
his final game of polo.