The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-24
BURIED ALIVE.
The Thrilling Experience of Baron

The Thrilling Experience of Baron
Some people there will always be
who are buried alive, but rare indeed
are the cases of those who live to tell
nobleman enjoys that distinction, and
he relates his experience in the Wide
World Magazine.
The rigors of the life of a religious
student had SO broken down Baron
Corvo that he became a nervous and
physical wreck, and in order to recov-
err his health he went with some
of the lovelest places in the world,
in the hills that environ Lago San
Giorgio.
In the garden of the villa stood a
chapel and thither Baron Corvo hast
ened on the eve Of st. Michael the
saint whom he had selected as his
especial patron. for a ''mouthful of
lantern and a heavy walking stick,
hewn from the branch of a tree.
Baron Corvo was afflicted with an
almost unconquerable fear of all creep
ing things, and as he came away from
the chapel, he heard a strange flip
flap on the path behind him. He look
ed around and found that he was be-
who had been attracted by the light
he carried from the fountain, where
they lived. He swept them away with
the walking stick, but they still pur-
sued him and the little red spark in
his lantern. In his terrible plight he
took to his heels and ran all the way
home.
The following afternoon he gave him
self up to the sport of hunting butter
flies, and over this occupation he for
got his discontinue of the night before
when suddenly he noticed a small gray
lizard on the top of the parapet of the
terrace steps. He switched it off With
his butterfly net. The animal dropped
on it's tail close to him and jumped to
his sleeve.
With a yell the young man ran up
the steps, tearing off his clothes in
frantic haste amidst gasps of breadth
AT the ton of the steps he fell to the
ground He made an effert to move
and tried to speak, but could not. All
the while the baron's mind was clear
and he knew all that was going on
around him. He saw men STOPPING
over him. saw himself lifted and car
ried through the studio window and
upstairs to his bedroom: but he felt
neither grasp of the mems hands nor
the motion of being carried and de-
posted on a couch.
TOTO, one OF ms colleagues, came IN
with the doctor Showers of hot and
cold water We're poured upon him, but
he could distinguish the cold from the
hot only by the latter's steam. Finally
the doctor Informed the members Of
the household that he had failed to
arouse the patient and that the baron
had died of heart failure.
The Italian law requires that burial
must take place within "a hours of
death. The Capucine monks were call
ed in to prepare the corpse for burial.
They placed him in a pine coffin and
nailed down the lid. Then they car
ried him to the chapel, where he had
prayed to st. Michael and left him
there for the night The next morning
the friars placed the box in a small
catafalque and prepared for the black
mass. The services took place at 10
O'Clock in the morning. The side walls
of the chapel are double. each two feet
thick, and there is a space of five feet
between them. This space is fitted up
like the walls of the catacombs, with
a series of ''loculi" One of these OBJ
long chambers was opened for the
dead baron The coffin was placed
upon the shelf then the masons filled
up the space with concrete and closed
it with the marble slab.
When Baron Corvo returned to con-
seriousness from a sleep which fortu-
nately had clouded his senses after he
MAD been rlaced in the pine box, he