The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-01-14
ALIVE IN THEIR GRAVES.
AYoung Girl Found Lying on Her Side
With Ribbons Torn TO Shreds.
From the Chic1gO Press

IACNuShAt1 WO LCaA Va ltRhAb bell4k DEO-
nounced dead and afterward coming to life,
as it is generally termed when they regain
consciousness. Very queer, incredible and
strangely peculiar are the stories related re-
garding these incidents, but few of them
are true. The further they travel the bet
ter and stranger stories they become.
Many incidents are on record of people
being buried alive. but during the past fifty
years not over eight people are known TO
have met such horrible fates. Every med
ical college has a record of such cases, and
for the veracity of the statements the physi-
clans who investigated the different cases
had appearances only to guide them.
Twenty years ago. as Hazel Kinks old
father exclaimed so many times night in
the play, Minnie Davis, q girl. young. beau
tiful, fascinating and accomplished, died in
the little town of Ashville, n. c. 1t was
but few days before the day set for her
wedding that her death occurred. the story
goes. Before she died she requested that
the ring which her expected husband was
TO place upon her finger when they were
pronounced man and wife be tied about her
neck with ribbon. Needless to say, her
wish was carefully carried out
The physicians who attended her were
puzzled by her illness, and when she ceased
to live they rather reluctantly stated that
ASdIL ubStdo6 was VIC IduS0.
Two months after she was buried, the
young man to whom she was to have been
married died. He begged that the body Of
Minnie Davis be exhumed aud buried in the
same grave with him. His friends and the
girls mother promised to carry out his dy-
ing request.
When the coffin containing the dead girl
was raised from the grave the mother asked
to be allowed to gaze once more on her dear
onaia fana Wbar1 Tho coffin l,ft oI
q horrible sight presented itself.
The mothers shrieks broke the silence Of
the graveyard, and the grave diggers, used
to CHASTITY sights, stood seemingly petrided
gazing with horror-strcken faces upon the
sight that the bright sunbeams made all the
more horrible.
The body was lying upon its side instead
of the back, and the blue ribbon which held
the wedding ring around the neck was torn
to countless shreds. The features of the
head girl were contorted and strangely dis
colored, and the muscles of the hands and
arms were drawn up in punches as hard as
iron.
Upon closer investigation startling fact
presented itself. The wedding ring had
been torn from the ribbon and placed upon
the fourth finger Of the left hand. The
right hand was tightly closed over it as if
to shield it from enviOus ewes.
The two physicians made careful ex-
animation of the remains, and, although
the body had been buried two mouths,
they declared that the girl had not been
dead over three weeks. Imagine ones
thoughts on awakening and finding they
are in the grave, cothued and entombed
alive. II is almost too horrible to think Of;
but what must it be to experienced
Another case where a man was buried
alive occurred in May, 1879, in Rochester.
N. Y. Henry Garlin was the unfortunate
mans name, and he was one of the most
prosperous and respected men in the COM
munity.
EARLY one morning he was found lying in
q stall beside horse in his barn. lie had
gone there but a few minutes before to feed
the cattle, aud the loud neighing of the
horse attracted the members OF his family
The unconscious man was carried into the
house, and physicians hastily summoned
After working over him for more than an
hour they pronounced him dead, giving
heart disease as the cause.
He had always expressed wish to be
buried In Albany, n. Y, where he was
born. but his wife being too i'll to leave her
home, they decided to place his body in
vault and carry out his wish at some later
period.
Three weeks afterward grave was pre-
pared in cemetery in Albany, and Mrs
Garlin went to the tomb to take a last look
at her dead husband.
The coffin was raised, figure clothed in
black stole tremblingly up and a pale face
peered within the rosewood case. There
was a shrek. O heavy fall and all was still.
Only the old grave diggerigazed upon the
sickening sight.
The flesh on the dead mans face had been
torn in strips with his finger nails, and in
his terrible death struggle his garments and
the silk lining of the coffin had been ripped
in shreds. The powerful strength which
came into the mans fingers, while in fren-
zied struggles he fought against death,
must have been supernatural.
The doctors thought from the appearance
and condition of the body that the man
must have regained consciousness a few
hours, or at least day after he was buried.
These opinions were told to Mrs. Carlin and
she brooded over the terrible fate of her
beloved husband. She blamed herself for
allowing his body TO be placed in the tomb
30 soon, and two months afterward she was
found dead in her bed. The doctors said,
and all of her friends believed it to be so,
that she died of a. broken heart
Three years ago, while laborers were re-
moving the dead bodies from an old grave
yard in the lower part of New York city,
one of the coffin-lids fell off, The body,
which was that of a man, was lying face
and the limbs were turned and
twisted in all kinds of shapes showing
clearly that the man had been buried alive,
Another case, which was discovered in
Brooklyn, N. Y, few years ago, was that
of twin girls, who had been buried in tho
same coffin alive They were but 4 years
old when the doctors pronounced them
dead, both having been found unconscious
in their beds. The case was very mys-
FERROUS one. and was brought to light in a
peculiar manner. The bodies were buried
prematurely, it was claimed, and in order
to prove it it was necessary to open the
coffin. The baby girls were clasped in each
others arms, and their skin and shrouds
were torn.
THAT these people were buried alive is
beyond doubt" q well-known Chicago ply
stefan explained to me the other day, when
l preached the ghastly subject. "You often
hear OF people remaining unconscious for
days and months at time, living without
food or wateT, and altogether in a state
similar to death. 1t would be very natural
for physician to conscientiously pronounce
a person in such a state dead. and have no
doubt whatever that hundreds of people are
buried alive each year. Yau see there is no
way of finding out. We have appearances
only to go by, but think they are enough
to satisfy any man OF sense and Judgment
Just then the physicians pretty daughter
came into the room, and CHASTITY subjects
seem to fade from his mind, so l bothered
him no longer.
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