Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-12-30
LIVING DEAD and DEADALNt.
Some Curious Stories from Public and
Private History.

er Justify the Nervous Dread Ex-
hibitsd by Persons Who Want
All Kinds Of Precautions Taken
When They are Buried.
That those supposed TO be dead are
often only in trance-like conditions is
evidenced by the numerous cases on
record of recovery from apparent
death. Unfortunately the histories of
the vast majority of these buried alive
are unwritten. Ea.tombed beneath the
earth and closely confined in collins,
the sufferings and heart rending ago
MES of the living victims of inhuma-
ton remain unwritten.
Many cases of melancholy mistakes
have been recorded. In 1884, in Cleve-
land, young man carried a young wO-
man, supposing she was his sweet
heart, from a burning building, and
when he reached place OF safety with
his burden, he discovered that he had
saved another, and that his sweet
heart had persisted in the flames.
In 1904 a fire took place in White
chapel, England, in some business
houses principally occupied by lodg-
ers. So rapid were the flames that it
was with the utmost difficulty that the
wretched inhabitants could be rescued.
A poor woman with a large family, VINO
had just escaped, was kneeling with
her children around her, TO return God
thanks for her preservation, when she
found that her youngest child, an in
FAINT, was still missing. With cour-
age and desperation which maternal
affection heightened by despair alone
could have prompted, she flew, hall
naked as she was, up the blazing stair
case, into the room ,snatched the babe
from the cradle. and bore it in tri-
umph TO her family group; triumph
alas, short lived, for the child was
not her own. Misled by the smoke
which filled the building, she had en-
tered a wrong apartment and rescued
the child of one of her neighbors in
stead of her own. She fastened back,
but by this time the whole building had
fallen in, when she sunk senseless to
the ground, and died in few hours.
Some years ago in England, at Dali
ton-in-F urness, a girl named Newell,
after an illness of three weeks dura-
ton, apparently died. She was placed
in a coffin and the hour that had been
fixed for the funeral was drawing near,
when she gave signs of returning VI
tally A doctor was summoned and
the young woman recovered.
A somewhat similar phenomenon oc-
Cured at Wembdon, near Bridgewater,
England. A laborer named George
Chilcot fell down suddenly on the 9TH
of September. 1884, and when picked
up, seemed 10 be dead. 1t was suppos-
ed that he had died from heart dis
ease, and preparations were made for
the mans funeral. The Vicar OF
Wembdon, however, saw the body and
was not entirely satisfied that death
had taken place. He therefore refused
TO bury the supposed corpse, but al
lowed it to be placed in its coffin. On
the Sth movements of the body were OBJ
served a doctor was called in, and Chill
cot was taken back to his home. AT
the end of eight days he recovered con-
seriousness. and finally he regained TO
great extent his normal health.
These and scores of we'll authenticated
instances which might be cited that
seem 10 suggest that soon after ANNA
ton has apparently departed 1t may Of
ten be within the power OF science 10
revive It. Newell and Ch.lcot began 10
recover unaided by an artificial stimuli
um. and in spite of the disadvantageous
condition in which they were left, and IL
IS but natural to suppose that other ap-
parent corpses might be, as It were,
called back to life # help were at hand.
There are probably many illnesses IN
which the patient should not be de-
SPARED Of until long after the BREATH
ing has ceased and the pulses have
stopped beating.
The following instance of the dangers
of supposed death are related at random
from the notebook of an eminent scien-
list. who collected many Of them from
various French and German periodicals:
In 1887 Cardinal SOmagl!a, in France,
was seized with a severe illness from ex-
IRENE grief. He fell into state OF
syncope, which lasted so long that the
persons around thought him dead. Prep
arations were made to embalm the body.
The embalmer had scarcely penetrated
into the Cardinals chest when the heart
was seen to beat. The unfortunate
patient who was returning to his
senses at the moment, had sufficient
strength to push away the knife of the
surgeon, but too late, for the lung had
been mortally wounded, and the patient
died in a most lamentable manner.
In 1889 a Mr. B., Of Poitiers. France,
fell suddenly into a state resembling
death. Every means of bringing him