The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-09

fell in a fit in Market street, Philadel-
phia. and shortly after having been
conveyed home, apparently died. Her
funeral took place three days subse-
auently and the remains were placed
in the family vault in Christ church
graveyard. That night resurrection
ists'' stole her body and took it to a
medical college. A student wandered
into the dissecting room and began ex-
perimenting with galvanic battery.
The electric current thrilled the en-
tranced body and aroused the latent
spark of life Instantly realizing the
situation, he summoned assistance and
removed her to the adjacent residence
of one of the professors, where in duo
some years afterward became the
wife of the student who had been the
means of her rescue.
During April, 1894, Daniel Jackson,
colored farm hand at Framingdale,
L. l., while in drunken spell. appar
emily died, and was prepared for
burial. The night before the funeral
number of condoling friends assem-
! bled in his house. While assuaging
grief with libations of hard cider,
groans were heard proceeding from an
adjoining room, where the corps had
been laid out Instantly there insued
a wild stampede, and those who could
not scamper out of the door vaulted or
tumbled through the windows. Their
yells of horror filled the air, and when
the alarmed white neighbors came up
on the scene they found the supposed
corpse sitting on the floor, piteously
moaning for something to drink. -
Undertaken j. X. Burrill of Brook
Ign. furnishes thrilling story of
premature interment. A member of
one of the most prominent families of
Long Island. about 30 years of age,
was supposed to have died after
spree. The lifelike appearance of the
body was the subject of general com
ment, and Immediately after the
funeral services had been performed
his sister strenuously opposed inter
ment. But the attending physicians
were so positive in their opinions she
yielded, and the remains were temper
arily placed in the receiving vault of
the Bushwick Avenue church. One
week subsequently the elder brother
arrived from the far West, and the
family repaired to the churchyard to
remove the body to its final place of in
terment at Huntington. Examination
showed that the body was turned and
twisted upon it's side, the shroud torn
in tatters. and there was every evil
dence of a fierce struggle. The man
had been buried alive
Since 1889 there have been chroni-
cled in the press dispatches 81 in
stances of persons resuscitated and
fully restored to health after having
been declared dead; also ia cases of
persons who had been buried alive, and
y instances of premature autopsies.
a woman at Baraboo, Wis, sat up
IN her coffin when she was being taken
to the cemetery for burial. The Rev.
James j. Kane, ID. D., late chaplain
If the Brooklyn Navy Yard, now in
England, was twice brought back to
life after he was supposed to be dead.
Among other notable instances of
more or less recent dates may be men
Toned the following: The Hon. NJ.
)unsmuir, premier of British Column
,ia; Emma Rath, Syracuse, N. Y;
Kate Patten, Boston. Mass. Martha
Davis, Brooklyn, N. Y. Abner Dunn,
Burlington, Ia. John S. O'Connor,
It. Louis, Mo-. Christopher O'Neil,
Sew Brunswick, N. S. Captain S. f.
Jarrett, Springfield, Ohio; Lafayette
lennard, Phoenixville. Pa. Mrs
1harles Collins, Chapmanville, Pa.
ohm Stevenson, Nanticoke, Pa. Sadie
anderson. No. 357 Eighteenth street,
Jew York August Vandevede, Pas
aic. n. J.
History furnishes many instances,
honorable among which are those of
ir Walter Scott, whose birth occurred
bout five years after his mother had
cen rescued from her tomb; also Gen
- Israel Putnam of American Revo-
ltionary fame, who was born six
ears after his mother had been resus-
of life having been dis
overed during the performance of her
lneral services in the church. An
unit of Henry Clay was restored to
fe before the coffin was placed beside
he grave, awaiting interment, and
lree days after the time of her appar-
1t death