Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-01
CAME BACK TO LIFE.
Two Women Who Were About to Be
 Placed in Their Coffins

Miss Louise Schaefer, of 14o East One Hundred and Twelfth street. New York, was to all appearances dead. The crape was ordered for the door. Friends and relatives had been no- tified. Father and sister were making plans for the funeral.
 In an adjoining room Frank Faber, an undertaker's assistant, was pre- pairing the body for burial. He took up the limp arms to fold them on the breast, but dropped them in amaze ment.
 He was sure he felt a tremor run through the body. As he stood there astonished Miss Sckaefer sat up in bed. Her eyes opened.
 ''What do you mean?" she gasped, and then sank back into coma, seems ingly as dead as before.
 The startled Faber rushed from the house and returned with pr. U. s. Ward, of 1903 Lexington Avenue. Hear ing that Miss Schaefer had revived once from the coma, Dr. Ward resorted to heroic measures to restore heart ac- tion.
 After a free use of nitroglycerin and digitalis Miss Schaefer's heart again began to beat, and again she i sat up and gasped:
 ''What do you mean?"
 This was on Wednesday afternoon. All night Dr. Ward worked with the : young woman, keeping her heart in action by artificial respiration. Again
 and again she sank into coma, from which she was with difficulty aroused. e. , l. r. she could not be questioned as to her sensations.
 Miss Schaefer on Thursday was re-
 moved to the Presbyterian hospital. but her case attracted so much atten- ton that she was removed to pri-
 vate hospital the location of which has
 been kept a secret.
 She and her sister, Miss Elizabeth Schaefer, are teachers in the public schools. Miss Schaefer was i'll of chronic gastritis. The nursing dur ing the day was left to her old fa- | ther. It was on Wednesday when she I sank into a coma. from which he could
 not arouse her. and thought her dead. ''In all my experience" Undertaken
 Faber said the other night, 'I have never before seen any one whose ap- | pearance more convincingly indicated
 death.''
 Another startling case of a like na- | ture is reported from Brazil, Ind. Pro-
 nounced dead by her family physician.
 mourned over by her husband and oth- 1 CTS of the family, laid out in her burial ! robes awaiting the hour for interment, | Mrs. Cyrus Taylor came back to life 1 and is we'll on the way to complete re- 1 covery. I It was a dramatic and weird scene ! when the woman so near to the grave
 opened her eyes upon the room of 1 mourning. Surrounding her were a
 number of neighbors, women who had
 known her for years, with tears in
 their eyes, recounting her good quail | ties. There was a quiver of the lip
 and Mrs. Taylor's eyelids twitcheG,
 then were raised, and she looked into l the faces of her friends. For a moment all were too startled
 to move, then one woman shouted with l joy and members of the household 1 rushed to the room. A physician was l summoned and restoratives admins l tered.
 l Taylor is a farmer, whose place is seven miles from Brazil. He is pres.
 porous and well known in that part
 of the state. Mrs. Taylor, who is abou; 40 years of age, had been sick for some time and death had been expected, as 1 she was weakened by fever. Mrs. Taylor is too weak yet to talk much about her unusual experience l but it is claimed that she realized hel
 condition for some time before she l could make known to her relatives thai she was alive. She knew she was
 thought to be dead and that active
 preparations were being made for he1 burial, and she feared she would be
 buried while alive. ,.