Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1889-05-22 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE DEATH OF MR, (TERRIFIC STORMS ON IRVING BISHOP. I THE CONTININT.  HORRIBLE ALLEGATIONS. There are fair grounds for believing that Irving Bishop, the thorght reader, was dissected while in a fit. The physicians who performed the autopy are held in heavy bail. The criminal phase of the question regarding Mr. Bishop's :death had apparently not been thought of by the doctors, who were obliged to send unseenera scurrying around for bondsmen. Mr. Bishop's coffin plate is engraved by his mother's !orders "was murdered" instead of " died." The utmost conviction is shown by both the wife and the mother that he died under the operating knife. Their wish to press the most serious criminal charge will probably not he accomplished, as the experts say it is absolutely impossible to now settle the real cause and time of his death, but unless the women relent all the three doctors seem in a fair way to pass a month or so on Blackwells Island at hard labour. The horrible uncertainty regarding Irving Bishop's death continues to be the reigning sensation. His mother and wife both insist that he was dissected while alive but unable to move or speak. His mother tells a story of her own early life to corroborate this theory. She says : I am subject to the same cataleptic trances into which my boy often fell. One can hear and see everything, but speech and movement are paralysed. It is horrible. For six days, some years ago, I was in a trance, and I saw the arrangements being made for my burial. Only my brother's determined resistance pre- I vented them from embalming me, and I lay there and heard it all. On the seventh day I came to myself, but the agony I endured lett its mark for ever. As dissection was performed, not only without permission, but also before the relatives knew of his supposed desth. public opinion seems inclined to hold the physicians accountable to the letter of the law, in which case several of New York's best medical men will be placed in an .awkward position. The idea of Mr. Bishop having listened for five hours to a discussion regarding,the best way to get his brain, and then, paralysed in body and active in mind, meeting the elow grating saw-cut which opened tho t0p,,,0f his head but did not actually kill until the doctor's hand pulled out the whole of the brain, is one which appeals most forcibly to the popular imagination. It is acknowledged now that unless the operation doctors confess—if there isanything to confess—it will always be uncertain whether Bishop  died suddenly and peacefully, or whether a passed through these hours of agony awaiting aid which did not come in time to save him from the saw ani the knife.  Terrific storms prevailed on Friday in variona part. of the country, causing great loss of life and damage to property. In the vicinity of Vienna three men were killed. At sesera/ places in the Angel Valley and in the country to the south of PiLsen fearful disasters have ocosuved in consequence of the torrents of rain which fell during the night. Reports from Reckowitz and Rechowitz state that a number homes have collapsed there, causing the death of rine children, At the village of Zino seven houses were destroyed, and their occupanta, nuMhering about thirty, killed. The ravages- ertendea over a large area, embracing,' South Hetrover, Hesse. Smutty. and Thminiia, as far as Bavaria. In many pLices bridges and railway embankments were destroyed. Confields have been devastated by hail and terrential rains and a number of cattle have periSked. Incsleuable damage has been done to agekulture.