The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-09-18
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some years back. Her body was
placed in a casket and taken to the
church, where funeral services were
held. At the close of a solemn
address the minister said that all
who wished might take last look at
the remains. Among those who went
forward was woman, and she, after
bending earnestly over the coffin, ex-
claimed, "See her eyelids ouiver!"
Great excitement followed, but a doc
tor present ridiculed the suggestion,
declared the life was extinct and urged
immediate interment. The husband,
however, insisted on the application
OF restoratives; the wife was removed
home, the grave clothes were stripped
off, and within four days, thanks to
continuous effort, she was quite we'll.
Six years after her restoration to life,
she, while singing at a musicale, was
suddenly stricken with blindness,
and blind she still is.
From Orenburg, in Russia, this year
very painful case has been reported.
During the funeral OF wealthy peas
ant the coffin was seen to rise, and the
corpse proceeded to get out. The al
frighted priests and mourners ran off.
The corpse" followed, but the peasant is
having by this time regained courage,
proceeded to "exorcise the ghost"
which they did so effectually with
guns and pine stakes that they killed
the unfortunate man, who, it was as
certained, had previously been in a
state OF coma.
Last February the funeral of young
woman was about to take place at
Alessandria, Piedmont, when, owing
to the jolting of the hearse, the sup
posed dead person was aroused from
the lethargy which was mistaken for
death. The bearers in the cemetery
heard sounds issuing from the coffin,
the lid was torn off, and the young
woman was found to be alive and
conscious, though in state of great
agitation. In Italy bodies are inferred
very soon after supposed death, and a
doctor in Rome has compiled and
published statistics showing that
thousands of persons are annually
buried in a state of coma throughout
Europe. A man named John j.
O'Connor had, it is alleged, an ex.
ceedingly lucky escape from the dis
secting table in the American city OF
St. Louis, about the 18th or 18th of
February last. He being supposed to
be dead, his body was Identified at the
morgue by his wife. A funeral fol-
lowed, and it is positively asserted that
he was buried in Calvary cemetery.
But to the amazement Of all who
knew him, he was afterward seen walk.
ing about as if nothing in particular
had happened to him. His own YER
sion of the affair is that he was really
buried, that his body was afterward
taken up and conveyed to the dissect-
ing room, and that the first incision
made in his abdomen causing blood to
flow, his consciousness, which had
only been suspended, returned to him.
About this case there is a good deal OF
mystery, and attempts have been made
to hush it up, but it is not an improb-
able one, for body snatching in the
interests of surgeons is not rare in
America. DIR. Kenneth Cornish, late
surgeon to the British Royal Humane
socie ty, knows clergyman in London
who narrowly escaped interment in
Milan four years ago while in state
of catalepsy. He considers that the
practice OF preparing the body for
burial almost Immediately after death
has proved fatal to the chance of life
possessed by many one whose friends
would have made any sacrifice to save
them. Some people have morbid
dread OF being buried alive, which
haunts them through life, and some
times they devise special instructions
on the subject. This was done by the
late Col. Vyner of bennington Priors,
who died last December. His will
contained bequest OF e1O to his doc
tor to examine him carefully after
death, for the purpose of ascertaining
that he was Greatly and undoubtedly
dead" and authorized him to use
whatever means he should think nee
essary in order to make himself abso-
lutely certain of the fact.
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