Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-25
SAVED FROM THE GRAVE
How n Dream Rescued a Woman from
= Terrible Death After
Burial.

Mr.. Jones was a popular young business
man in the city of b. His wife was a
woman of strong emotion and most deli
cate perceptions. Between them there ex-
lSted a rare sympathy which extended to
all the faculties.
Mrs. Jones fell i'll and after a few weeks
agony, during which her husband waited
on her with a consistency not often seen,
she died. That is, she appeared to be dead.
There was no question about 1t in the doc
tors mind. A certificate was issued and
an undertaken called in. But for the for
tunate circumstance that Mr.. Jones was
opposed to embalmins there would be no
story to tell, unless 1t were of another per-
son apparently dead who was revived for
a moment under the lunge Of the en-
bslmer's knife.
Saved from that fate, Mrs. Jones was
laid OUT in her burial robe. placed in a
coffin and on the third day was buried
in a cemetery some distance away.
Her husband was greatly affected, so
much that his relatives feared an attack
OF melancholia. His uncle, wishing TO
arouse his spirits and divert his attention,
remained in the house the night after the
funeral and was a valuable witness, as it
proved, OF an event so astounding as to
be almost beyond belief.
For an hour or two that evening they
talked chiefly about the dead and then
went to bed. Mr.. Jones, after tossing upon
his pillow for a long time, fell into a
troubled sleep. In the middle of the night
he heard a voice calling his name, George!
George!' The tones were not familiar 10
him; they did not recall the voice of his
wife.
Still conceiving himself the victim Of a
dream. he aga.n went to sleep. Ii was day
break before the voice was heard again,
and this time it could not be ignored. He
recognized 1t at last as the voice of his
wife, in sore distress, calling upon him she
cried:
George! ave me! Save me! George!'
she cried.
lie sprang out of bed. trembling all over.
That despairing cry stll rang In his ears.
SO real was 1t that, though he was awake
and remembered perfectly the death. the
funeral and all that happened in the pre-
ceding four days. he searched the room for
her who had thrice called him by name.
Finding that he was alone, he rushed
into his uncle's room, crying: Get up! ge,
up! You must go to the cemetery! She is
alive; she is calling met
The uncle, skeptical as he was by nature.
was carried away Dy Jones impetuOsity.
Both men threw on some clothing. and.
while one harnessed a horse to a light
buggy, the other procured spades. Thus
equipped, they drove to the cemetery at a
gallop. The sun rose as they leaped out at
the grave and began to dig.
Mrs. Jones had been buried the previous
afternoon. Her husband shoveled away the
earth in a frenzy Of energy. II was firmly
fixed in his mind that she had been buried
alive and that he might yet be in time 10
save her. Inspired by his nephew's excite.
ment the uncle dug with a vigor almost as
great as Jones's.
Begrimed and disheveled, they at last
reached the coffin and wrenched off the lid.
Jones shrieked. His wife was moving. She
was trying feebly to turn over in her mar.
row bed, She gazed at him with eyes that
saw not; she was unconscious of her situa,
ton.
lie passed his arms about her and lifted
her out. The two men removed her from
the grave, placed her in the buggy anc
drove home. Physicians were called in
Under close medical care she slowly recov,
cred. Every precautlon was taken 10 guard
her from the knowledge OF what had nap.
pened, and all who were in the secre.
pledged themselves to silence lest the shocl
Of that revelation Of her burial and resur
rection might prove fatal 10 her, but tn,
story leaked Out later. when Mrs. Jone.
got about gain.-Baltimore sun.