The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-19
BURIED WHILE LIVING,
THREE REMARKABLE CASES OF UN.
FORTUNATE INTERVIEWS.

A Husband Discovers HIS First Wife,
Skeleton Outside of the Cefin-A Lover
Resoues Eis Swesthears-Students Re-
suscitate a Friend.
The wife of a wealthy merchant wac
taken suddenly i'll with disease that BAT
fed the science, skin and medical knowl
edge OF all the physicians in the neighb Dor.
hood She appeared TO have succession
of violent swoons which lasted for differ.
ent periods. She rsgained consciousness
after long intervals and talked intelli-
gently to those around her.
After she had been i'll for week she be.
gan 10 sink, and late one night reIapse6
into deadly faint. Three days and three
nights passed, and still she did not re
cover.
The physicians made thorough exami.
nation and unanimously declared that life
was extinct. PuIsation had entirely ceased
Her face assumed deaf alike pallor The
features became hard and rigid, and the
. limbs stiffened
A PITIARLE CASE
Dead she certainly was said all the med
ical men, and two days afterward she was
inferred in the family vault When atwelve
month had passed away the merchant mar
ried again. Soon after his second marriage
the vault was opened to receive the coffin
of relative The merchant himself
touched the spring which caused the hi to
fly open.
AS the top of the vault swung back on
its hinges skeleton, with an ominous
rattle, fell into the arms OF the gentleman.
Ii was the skeleton of his first wife. and q
brief search disclosed all the dreadful do
tails.
The unfortunate lady had evidently been
only in a prolonged swoon. AS a broken
coffin lay on the floor of the vault il WAS
presumed that, on waking up and finding
where she was, she had struggled violently
and caused the coffin to roll off the shelf,
on which it had been placed, on 10 the
floor
A large bone lay close by the skeleton,
and with this she had evidently tried 20
attract attention by striking the roof OF
the vault. The oil in a lamp, left by
workman, had all 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
come, but we can DOW quote two examples
followed by happier results. A young
French lady, deeply in love with student.
was informed by her father, an old man
who had made his fortune by selling rags,
that she would have TO marry friend Of
his, also retired rag seller, whose age was
almost treble that of the young girl. On
hearing this announcement she was seized
with q violent illness, ana in few days
succumSed to it. She was buried IN q
church yard not far from Paris.
On the same night the young student
frantic with grief and rage, formed tbs
idea of unearthing her, possessing himself
of her beautiful black hair, and then, sitter
killing her father aud the would be bride
groom, drowning himself ia 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 quivered very slightly.
With eager haste he bore her to the near.
est house and applied restorstives with
such success that she soon completely re
covered and was able To fly 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 fine physique and
excellent health was seized with an I'm
accountable illness aud shortly afterward
died. He was buried In o ten foot grave.
Some friends Of his, medical students, |
entertained doubts ~ 70 MS demise, AID /
resolved to experiment upon him with /
very powerful electric battery.
With much difficulty and toll they Opened !
his grave. removed toe body from the cot 1
fin and bore it hastily TO their dissectins i
room. Hour after hour they spent in fruit 1
LEGS attempts 10 restore animation BE- 1
means Of electric shocks until al lsss tAs 4
gray streaks Of dawn warned thern th1t Il 4
was high time 10 replace sne body Ia tAs 4
grave.
One young student, however, begged 70,
another fainnte, as ne had a pet Theory
which ne wished 10 try. Hsssz4y maktngs
gsssh, he sPpised tue wire TO 8 sEosH pee
torzl muscle. INSTANTLY tos yoaar c<,ct<s
arose, staggered 70 the Middle Of toe room
and feiI heavily 10 tbs ssor-
RestorasIyes were sppssrsi, sn6 sOora TIE
80 opposed corpse wss AIDE - r~iEIe sss az
perlenees- He asserted Lhas ne had De~es
oeen unconscious Tor moment fss,a atss
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dead" 90 tie siHe xher the pa the~ry~
lad predues-a saea hsppy results Hon
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