Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-11-06
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NOW 4OI SOHe RECENT cases. lne
following one was reported from NJ
vada, Miss, Aug. "a. 1888. Whne
the remains of twenty-three unknown
dead bodies were being removed from
Deepwood Cemetery, in that town,
Superintendent G.. W. Mccain dis
covered body which was partly pet
rited, and from It's position, evident
ly had been buried alive The body
was that of an infant, probably a
year old, and was lying on its face,
with its legs drawn up and the bot
toms of its feet resting on the coffin
nd" Early in February, this year.
the Philadelphia Press published
remarkable case, vouched for by Mr.
Thomas Hooper, formerly of that
city, but now a resident in New York
1t is that of lady, the wife of a mu-
stefan, who, apparently died in Me-
dia some years back. Her body was
placed IN casket and taken to the
church, where funeral services were
held. At the close of a solemn adj
dress 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 quiverl"
Great excitement followed, but a
doctor present ridiculed the sugges-
ton, declared that 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 with
IN four days, thanks to continuous eff
fort, she was quite we'll Six years
after her restoration to life, she, while
singing at musicale, was suddenly
stricken with blindness, and blind she
still is.
From Orenburg, in Russia, this
year, a very painful case has been re-
ported During the funeral of a
wealthy peasant the coffin was seen
to rise and the corpse proceeded TO
get out. The affrighted priests and
mourners ran off. The corpse fol-
lowed, but the peasants having by
this time regained courage, proceed
ed to exercise the ghost, /" which they
did SO effectually with guns and pine
stakes that they killed the unfortu-
nate man who, it was ascertained, had
previously been IN a state of coma.
Last February the funeral of a
young woman was about to take
place at Alessandria, Piedmont, when
owing to the jolting of the hearse, the
supposed dead person was aroused
from the lethargy which was mistak-
en- 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 a state
of great agitation. In Italy bodies
are inferred very soon after supposed
death, and a doctor in Rome has COM
piled and published statistics show
ing that thousands of persons are an
nqally buried in a state of coma
throughout Europe. A man named
John j. O'Connor had, 1t is alleged,
an exceedingly lucky escape from the
dissecting 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
followed, and it is positively asserted
that be was buried IN Calvary Gene
terry. But to the amazement of all
who knew him he was afterwards
seen walking about as if nothing in
particular had happened to him. His
own version of the affair was that
he was really buried, that his body
was afterwards taken up and convey
ed to the dissecting-room, and that
the first incision made in his abda-
men causing blood to flow, his con-
seriousness, which had been suspend
ed, returned to him. About this case
there is good deal of mystery, and
attempts have been made to hush Il
up; but it is not "a Improbable one
} fer beag=sAatchlng in the interests Of
surgeons is not rare IN America DR.
| Kenneth Cornish, late surgeon to the
British, Royal Humane Society
> knows q Clergyman Ia london wh'
!. narrowly escaped Interment in Min
4 four years ago while IN a state .