Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-04-15
BURIED WHILE LIVING.
THREE REMARKABLE CASES OF uN.
FORTUNATE INTERVIEWS.

a Husband Discovers His First wiGe's
Skeleton Outside of the GONNA Lover
Rescues His sweetheart-students Re-
suscitate Friend.
The wife of wealthy merchant was
taken suddenly i'll with disease that baf
fled the science, skill and medical knowl
edge of all the physicians in the neighI or
hood. She appeared to have a success ION
of violent swoons which lasted for differ.
ent periods. She regained consciousn ess
after long intervals and talked intelli-
gently to those around her.
After she had been ill for a week she be-
gan to sink, and late one night relap sed
into deadly faint. Three days and three
nights passed, and still she did not re
cover.
The physicians made thorough exalni
nation and unanimously declared that life
was extinct. Pulsation had entirely ceas ed
Her face assumed 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
inferred in the family vault. When twelve
month had passed away the merchant m ar
ried again. Soon after his second maria ge
the vault was opened to receive the coffin
of relative. The merchant himself
touched the spring which caused the Id 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 gentlema n.
1t 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 prolonged swoon. As a broken
coffin lay on the floor of the vault it W as
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 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 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-
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 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 violent illness, ana in few DAYS
succumbed TO it. She was buried in a
church yard not far from Paris
On the same night the young student,
frantic with grief and rage, formed the
Of
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 quivered very slightly.
With eager haste he bore her to the near
est house and applied restoratives 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. 4
young German doctor, of fine physique and
excellent health, was seized with an IN
accountable illness and shortly afterwarl
died. He was buried in ten foot grave
Some friends of his, medical students.
entertained doubts as to his demise, and
resolved to experiment upon him with a
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 dissecting
room. Hour after hour they spent in fruit
less attempts to restore ANIMATE b. bT
means of electric shocks, until at last the
gray streaks of dawn warned them that it
was high time to replace the body in the
grave.
One young student, however, begged for
another minute, as he had pet theory
which he wished to try. Hastily makinga
cash, he applied the wire to a small pee
toral muscle. Instantly the young doctor
arose, staggered to the middle of the room
and fell heavily to the floor.
Restoratives were applied, and soon the
supposed corpse was able to relate his ex
periences. He asserted that he had never
been unconscious for moment from the
time the doctors had pronounced HIN
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.