The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-16
NOT TAKEN FROM THE FRENCH.
Grewsome Scene in the Morgue Dis
turbed by an Inquisitive Fly.
From the Indianapolis Sentinel,

The interior OF the morgue grewsome
place at the best, cold, silent and awful,
with the shades of death lowering in tho
icy air and the whispering spirits of the
maugled and murdered victims gliding
uncanny and unseen through the shadows
and the gloom, lurking in the murky cor
ners and narrating to each other, with
fiendish grimaces, the agonies of their
horrible disembodlment, and pointing
their skeleton fingers as proof to the clots
of CONCEALED blood, the flowing of which
from gaping and CHASTITY wounds liber-
ated them from their prisons cf clay
with the deathly stiffness only relieved
by the monotonous p-drop-drop of
the chilling water as it strikes the cold
sla Ds of marble-uRh IT'S a fitting Sc
pulcher for those whose death is enshroud-
ed in mystery.
Upon one of these white slabs that
form the cold touches in thai chamber of
horrors there lay the other afternoon the
outstretched form of a man. His face
was pallid. his eyes closed as though in
sleep, while one bare arm was thrown
carelessly across his breast. His under
clothing, which was of fine texture, had
not been removed and could be sean where
the white sheet that served as his shroud
had been carelcssly thrown back from
his breast. He lay motionless, all uncon-
scious of the whispering spirits and
death shadows that hovered around and
above him.
Around him hung the stiffness of the
tomb, so heavy that it's very intensity
was brought into greater relief by the
dropping of the cold water upon each Of
the weird marble cots that stretched out
in long row on either side. At the mar
row aperture in the wall, that served as
a window to allow the light TO dimly pen
citrate the grim interior, a great green fly
was buzzing lazily. The winged seaven-
ger had been the sole living occupant of
the room for days and weeks and seemed
to glory in its shadOwy home. 1T had be-
come identified with the place and en-
joyed its solitude. Without the half-dark-
ened window all was light, life and dan
ger: within all was darkness, death,
safety And so the green fly lazily
tapped its wings against the reeking
window panes and gloried in its hermit
life.
Ten minutes later the fly left the win
dow and began slow and dreary tour of
the room which it mad chosen for its
home. Here and there it lauly winged
its fight, moving in circles from one part
of the chamber of death TO another as
though making tour of inspection of its
marble castle. 1t lighted upon one after
announcer Oh Inc WnlbC SldOS, duu bIbI dIDSS
again into the air. For a moment it cir
cled slowly above the slab upon which
rested the silent form of the man as
though inspecting its prey. The buzzing
sounded like requiem for the dead For
a moment the green fly lowered above
and then slowly settled down upon the
face of the still sleeper stretched upon
the icy couch. There was a moment of
horrible stiffness as the buzzing ceased,
and then-ye gods above That
form moved Could it be the
work of imagination of frightful play
of deceptive vlsion} Mo- There could
be no mistake. There was a distinct mo-
ton beneath that snowy sheet-the bare
arm was slowly raised-those eyes that a
moment before seemed so CLASSY opened
there was a spasmodic twitching OF the
fingers, a horrible working of the muscles
of the face; there WAS hurried rustling
in the shadows as ghostly visitors fed in
dismay; the buzzing sound was repeated
with redoubled dreariness as the green
fly circled toward the window; the out
stretched form Of the man arose slowly
from the icy couch, and the chamber of
death echoed and re-echoed with NUT
tered curse that seemed TO reverberate
against the walls and float through the
air like the laughter of the feuds.
ID that fly" broke through the
gloom and stiffness; ga fellow can't get a
wink of sleep anywhere this hot weather.
10 was the undertaken