Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-04-07
DIES THREE TIMES
RETURNS TO LIFE
CALLS FOR WATER AFTER HIS
SECOND DENISE
Strange c-se % 3CN e3GrH Laborer
fatally Injured by Fail Tron
Ray Wagon.

onee 20 the arl.uaEs UaE. tat 4
Charlie, Galagler. - years cid. an.
Weighing nearly 800 pounds, it cam,
three lines before il decided 20 re
main Three times ia The ratty morn
inc hours nurses and phys c.ans in
tie county hospital pronounced their
patient dead, only 10 learn n TWO u
the Instances that the evidences Of
death had been false-that tie tests
had failed Il was not until rgor
norris st.deued the body io!iOw.ne
t4e third death that the authorities
rrlt safe in turning the body over 10
/ TIE coroner.
Il was about l o'c,ocl, on The preyi-
Gus afternoon that some farmhauds,
/ employed on the ranch OF }. l. Iaylo.
near Aryada, heard screams for help.
HurrinG in the direction Of the shouts,
they found thar Gallagher another
Workman. had fallen from hay Wa
on with the result that his back had
been broken They summoned Mr..
Taylor, who hurried Gallagher TO tie
county hospital in motor car, ar
irving there about , 30 O'Clock.
There it as found tina, in addition
10 the broken back, GALLAGHER also
was suffering from a fracture OF the
skull Death was almost certainty.
But neither the doctors nor the nurses
had even a vision OF the multitu
dinOus death 10 come
Therefore. when at l;S5 o'clock
next morning, Gallagher's pulse. hear.
and breathing ceased, the physicians
applied the usual tests for death and
ordered the body and bed OF Gallagher
into the dressing room or dead
I.om," to be shrouded. The garments
OF death were wrapped about the body
OF the man, the eyes were closed, the
hands were piEioned that when the
rigor of death came they would be in
pace. Then the door was closed and
the dead" man left for the coroner
The operation had consumed about
fifteen minutes. Five minutes later,
Miss Grace CTamor, a nurse. passing
the door OF the dressing room, paused
ut a horrible, gurgling, straining sound
from within. She turned and opened
the door.
With a scream the nurse half reel.
et then leaped forward There on
the bed, his face Contorted, his
wrists purple, his broken frame con
vulsing and swaying as he struggled
against his bonds, Charles Gallagher,
pronounced dead twenty minutes be-
fore, was seeking to free his hands
and to call for help.
Quickly the nurse released his
ronds and summoned the physicians.
The excited beating OF the pulse
goothed and became normal again.
For fully five minutes there was every
evidence of an entire return to life.
Then the pulse weakened once more,
the eyes glazed again and the stethos-
pes denoted that the heart had
ceased it's beating entirely. From one /
to another travelled the glances of the |
physicians.
There's no doubt about it this /
time they said. But just the same I
we'll watch
And there they remained, watching I
A quarter of an hour, a half hour.
lille test after test was made. And +
with every test there came the reply |
that life was gone. Five minutes |
nore--eight minutes more--and then /
he cry, His hearts beating again."
1t was a physician with his car to /
A stethoscope. Another doctor list.
aned. The faint beating of the heart
became stronger; at the wrists there
,ame evidence OF pulse. Life had
'eturned.
But this time life was fainter, feeb-
err. Where the pulse had been strong
before, it was weak now. Gallagher,
vice dead, turned his head slightly.
His lips mumbled something. The
Nurse bent low.
What is it,"
"Water-Water." his lips gaspcd.
The nurse turned. She hurried
Crth and returned. But when she
entered the room again the doctors
,nce more were applying the steth-
scopes and shaking their heads. For
life had departed again. And this
line in certainty.
But with two returns to life already
accorded, there was not even chance
Or certainty now. It. was not until
tree hours later. when the hospital
authorities felt sure that life really
Fad departed, that the authorities felt
safe in notifying the coroner that the
cody really was ready for his care.
Explanation" eXc.4ime! one OF
he physicians when questioned about
he strange case, there isn't any ex-
p,anation. The man just died three
lines, and that's all there is to it.
very test of death that we know
vas applied to him and they all show
4 that life was negative. The man
vas dead--to every possible test.
nhen he came to life again. That IS
he only explanation that can be
given"
Sugar cookies put, piping hot into
IN earthen jar lined with clean cloth
md kept covered, will be much nicer
I'll r..l al in hn IN n.