The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-19
IA HORRIBLE
EXPERIENCE.
On ice Tor Burial Three Days
and Lives 10 Tell Tale.
GRAVE YAWNED FOR WRIGHT.
Third Relapse In Attack Of Typhoid
Fever Nearly Killed Hin.
STILL He HEARD EVERYTHING
When The Silent Watchers Of the House
Were Tlpios.ng Back and Forth Through
The Room Where He Lay.
STILL He HEARD EVERYTHING

Minneapolis, July l9.-For three days
| A. j. Wright lay on the Ice awaiting
burial as corpse. lie knew that the
silent watchers were tiptoeing about the
house of mourning ana heard the whis-
pered conversations over his body. The
grave, old doctor came. shook his head
and said. 'IIe Is surely dead" in an
swer TO the agonized, insistent pleading
of a sweetheart who refusel TO believe
that life had fled.
None of this escaped the consciousness
OF the man lying there still and cold on
his bier; but, though his brain was
vaguely alive. not by the slightest sign
could he. let the physician know that the
womans intuition was correct. Finally
her insistence won and an incision was
made in the foot of the supposed corpse.
Consciousness revived 70 sufficient de-
gree TO Indicate that life existed and
premature burial horror was averted. To
make the romance complete. Mr.. Wright
should have married the girl. But he
didn't.
Mr.. Wright is now employed as head
steamitter in the 500 shops in Northeast
Minneapolis and is the head of a happy
family, occupying a comfortable home al
2743 Central avenue. 1t was in little
Wisconsin town. some eight years ago,
that Mr.. Wright. then an active young
man OF %. was working for small mer-
chant and did odd jobs about the home.
year before he had met a young woman
whom he had known IN childhood. Mr.
Wright had often visited her, and II was
understood that there was to be a union
as soon as he secured a good paying posi-
ton and laid by enough of this worlds
goods to support the twain.
THE VISITS SUDDENLY CEASED.
He visited her regularly each week and
the infatuation grew. Suddenly his visits
ceased. The second week. and no word
from her lover. she wrote sensitive little
note, stating her apprehension and slight
| ly reproving him for not explaining his
absence Two weeks more brought no
reply. She then wrote a letter TO an ac-
l~luaintance in her lovers town, giving
some trivial excuse for writing, and most
| incidentally asked about Mr.. Wright. 1t
was three weeks before reply came.
The young woman had watched the
| she was greatly agitated when the an
| swer came. Hastily tearing II open, she
| scanned the contents hurriedly. Here
was a mention of the writer's recollection
| of the time they had met, two years be-
| fore. Here was paragraph telling of
| the beautiful weather. And here were
accounts of small social happenings in
| the village. But not a word about An
| drew.
| Giving up hope of hearing from or
about her lover, the young woman went
| to see Andrew. Sne found him Ill with
| typhoid The meeting was touching, but
most pleasant. 1t gave the sick man
! strength and he rallied. But upon the
| girls departure wright grew weaker.
| Then he rallied and was nearly able TO
| be out. He did not write his sweetheart.
for he desired TO give her pleasant
| surprise But there was a relapse. Again
| he was forced into bed. The second at
! tack of typhoid was more severe than
| the first. Ii was five months before the
| physician could report any Improvement.
| Then there was n third relapse
| Few have ever recovered from n third
attack of the fever, and Wrights chances
| seemed slim. He grew rapidly worse and
| asked for his sweetheart. She came. Ar
| irving in the town little before 2 o'clock
| on that bright Monday morning, she has
| tened at once TO the house where Andrew
| way staying. She found him almost too
weak to recognize her. lie grew steadily
worse '''''''''''
| Those were trying days for the young
| woman. Days of worrying and sleepless
nights. Now her lover would appear
| brighter; now he was at the point of
dea,h. From Monday morning until Fri
| day she refused to leave her lovers room,
| except for her meals or to drop into a
bed in an adjoining room to try TO sleep.
| But sleep was impossible. When she did
/ get into n little doze she would dream
| that Andrew was dead: that they had
| allowed him to pass away without calling
| her, and he did not say goodby. When
the doctor called that Friday morning
| and made his examination Of the patient
| he shook his head. 81 am afraid the end
has come" he said 10 the girl who was
the only watcher at his bedside. for Mr.
Wright had been alone In this world since
he was n dozen years old.
They stood there watching the uncon-
scious man, as he was sinking rapidly.
| The woman was crying. Finally after an
hours suspense the doctor felt the pulse.
| laid his ear to the breast and discerning
| no sign OF life pronounced the man dead
But the girl felt intuitively that her low
J er's life had not passed, just why she
could not say The old doctor insisted
that she was wrong. that hers was an
| idle fancy and even hinted that her
brain was disordered by incessant worry
| and lack OF rest and nourishment. But
| the girl would not be auieted. When the
doctor called upon his friend. the under
taker, and gave orders for the care OF the
body the latter at once went To the
house. IL was d..icult for tho girl. fos-
tering the belief that the man was not
yet dead TO allow the mortician TO place
the body on the bier Finally she des-