Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-12-22

SD b DE ECEMBER q:
IT.WAs NoT.A GHOST.
he was Not Dead Though Pro-
ssssnl0unced SO BY a Physician. &
New YORK, Dec. 15.-The Her
aH says Thomas Hyland, an in
fmhte of the Kings county hospital
Einl sFlatbush, had q thrilling ex-
perie noe recently, which resulted
!! in spreading the report that the
county buildings were haunted.
EHyland; who is about fifty years
loM, had been in the hospital about
siksmontha, suffering from rheu--
matism and heart trouble.
sIt has been. the custom Of
= : -
yeung physicians from the Long
| lIaand college hospital, to give,
Three days service each week at
| the. Flatbush hospital.
One of the young physicians,
1whose name Dr. 9Duryea, the med
ieal perintendant, refused to
1MYulge, was called about midnight
h1ook at Hyland, who Richard
Turner, the attending nurse of
ward 5, thought was dead.
t After investigating the case the
dector ronounced the man dead,
and Tierney and Joseph Dobbs,.
Smother nurse, were ordered to re-.
move the body to the morgue,.
which isin the. e.rear Of the hospital
Dobbs and Tierney were sum-.
lEmoned at two o'clock to remove.
fanother corpse. When they ar.
frised at the morgue and opened:
N{.hes door they were terrified by the
sudden sapparition Of Hyland.
Wrapped in a blanket He bolted5
Eby.them and ran toward the. hos-
Eslifal. The nurses dropped the
they were carrying, and
Espringing5o g5over the fence took to
the road, rupning.. in opposite
directions. Tierney ran toward
IIEast New York while Dobbs made,
for the city. Il. 4.
sHy yland, int The meantime. who
||wassnot. at all dead. rnshed1to his
Ecoit.in ward 5, and hiding himself
l:inlthe blankets, slept peacefully
until morning. AT daylight an
other commott ON took place when
| |the patients, who are nearly all
teripples in that ward woke and.
|saW Hyland in that cot. They
harridl y dressed themgel Ives pick
thei erutc hes and canes and
hobbled to DR.. Duryea's office,
where they demanded their certif-
Gates of discharge. The doctor,
who was amazed at the action of
the cripples, asked for an explana-
tion. He was told by them that
they wanted to go home, as the
place was haunted. They could
prove it, they asserted, for Hyland's
| ghost was lying in his cot.
DR.. Duryea was laughing heartily
at what he supposed was their
illusion. But on going to the ward
himself however, he was astounded
to find Hyland sleeping there. The
fears of the other patients were
soon set at rest on finding that it
was Hyland himself, and not his
ghost.
The occurrence was explained az
the result of suspended animation
I asked Hyland yesterday to
relate his experience. He said he
could not rem member how long he
had been unconscious when he
came to himself on amarillo slab
with only a sheet for a covering.
The place was icy, and looking
around he saw other bodies lying
on slabs.
Not fully realizing where he was
he turned towards man with
long beard on slab near him, and
"Say, where are we9"
Night Watchman o'connell, who
was outside when he heard the
voice, ran away. Hyland then got
off the slab. After searching about
the place he found blanket, which
he wrapped about his shivering
body. Then he pounded at the
door, and shouted for some one to
let him out. 1t was not until
Tierney and Dobbs, came at about
9 o,o1ool +bo+ bo uoe rolooeod fro,,,