Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-04-14
BURIED WHILE LIVING.
THREE REMARKABLE CASES OF uN-
FORTUNATE lNTERMENTS.


A Husband Discovers His First Wifs's
skeleton Outside of the Cofan-A Lover
Rescues His Sweetheart Re
suseitate "a Friend.
The wife Of a wealthy merchant was
taken suddenly i'll with a disease that baf- .
fed the science, skill and medical knowl- /.
edge Of all the physicians in the neighbor-
hood She appeared to have a succession
OF violent swoons which lasted for differ
ent periods She regRined consciousness
after long intervals and talked intelli-
gently to those around her.
After she had been i'll for "A week she be-
gan TO sink, and late one night relapsed
into a deadly faint. Three days and three
nights passed, and still she did not re
cover.
The physicians made a thorough exami-
nation and unanimously declared that life
was extinct. Pulsation had entirely ceased.
Her face assumed a deathlike pallor The
features became hard and rigid, and the
limbs stiffened.
A PITIABLE CASE.
Dead she certainly was, said all the med
ical men, and two days afterward she was
u
month had passed away the merchant mar
ried again. Soon after his second marriage
the vault was opened to receive the coffin
of rehtive, The merchant himself
touched the spring which caused the lid TO
fly open.
AS the top Of the vault swung back on
its hinges a skeleton, with an ominous
rattle fell into the arms OF the gentleman
Ii was the skeleton of his first wife, and a
brief search disclosed all the dreadful de
tails.
The unfortunate lady had evidently been
only in a prolonged swoon. As broken
coffin lay on the floor Of the vault it was
presumed that, on waking up lpd finding
where she was, she had struggled violently
and caused the coffin to roll of the shelf,
on which it had been placed, on TO the
floor
A large bone lay close by the skeleton,
and with this she had evidently tried TO
attract attention by striking the roof OF
the vault The oil in a lamp, left by a
workman, had an been consumed by the
poor creature, Exhausted by want Of food,
she had gradually sunk and died in real
ity.
SAVED BY KISSES.
The foregoing episode is somewhat grue-
some, but we can now quote two examples
followed by happier results. A young
French lady, deeply in love with a student,
was Informed by her father, an old man
who had made his fortune by selling rags,
that she would have to marry IA friend of
his, also a retired rag seller, whose age was
almost treble that of the young girl. On
hearing this announcement she was seized
with violent illness, ana in "A few days
succumbed 10 it, She was buried in a
church yard not lar from Paris.
On the same night the young student
frantic with grief aud rage, formed the
idea of uuearthing her, possessing himself
OF her beautiful black hair, and then, after
killing her father and the would be bride
groom, drowning himself in the Seine. AT
dead OF night he proceeded to the grave
yard, disinterred the corpse, and was cover
ing the inanimate lips with passionate
kisses when he noticed that the right eye
lid quiyered very slightly.
With eager haste me bore her to the near
est house and applied restoratives with
such success that she soon completely re
covered and was able to lily with him on
the following day to Germany, where they
were united
CONSCIOUS THOUGH BURIED.
Electricity has been responsible for re-
storing a man who was declared to be dead
by the most expert medical authorities A
young German doctor, Of line physique and
excellent health, was seized with an un-
accountable illness and shortly afterSard
died. lie was buried in a ten foot grave.
Some friends of his, medical students,
entertained doubts rs to his demise, and
resolved to experiment upon him with 4
very powerful electric battery.
With much difficulty and toll they opened
his grave, removed the body from the cot
fin and bore it hastily to their dssectinp
room. Hour after hour they spent in fruit
less attempts TO restore animation boy
means of electric shocks, until at last tn,
gray streaks Of dawn warned them that it
was high time to replace the body in tn,
grave.
One young student, however, begged foi
another minute as he had pet theory
which he wished to try. Hastily making
cash, he applied the wire 60 a small pee
tOral muscle. Instantly the young doctor
arose, staggered 10 The middle of the room
and fell heavily TO the floor.
Restorativcs were applied, and soon tbs
supposed corpse was able to relate lis ex-
periences. lie asserted that he had never
been unconscious for moment from the
time the doctors had pronounced HIM
dead" to the time when the pet theory
had produced such happy results. How
awful his feelings and thoughts must have
been we can imagine. London Tit Bits.