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Another T£ftfuai«E VVarmxg.’—Captain Kendrick, of the steamer Cmtrh, gives us the facts relative to u circumstance which occurred on that boat on her hist trip from ih.s city to St. Louua-It is another and a startling evidence of the danger of early burials, where the patient is supposed to have died of cholera, and being substantiated by undoubted testimony that of the pas-s-mgers and Cupt K. himself\ it sheuid serve to arouse those having charge of the dead in times uf cholera, to another duty—to the duty of asce.T-t tiling whether they who sleep actually sleep the sleep of death.A German puaftsenger was taken with cholera, | passed rapidly Itirough the several stages, and fm.dly dv*«:, n* wan supposed- Ibt w«s hud out,Ik s cullm was made, and he would have been buried hi the course of two or three hours, had not Capt. Kendrick ordered that the bud v should be kept until it gut e* i J, and the fact *»f death established, After a lapse uf about eight hours, Capt K * xrinmted the blt;»-dy and found it cold, and w xs tin reh re sal islie.i tha t the man con hi be safely burivd. The boa' w as Sanded m-ar Hawesvil e, and the grave wits dug; hui as the lid of the coffin «rn3 ttb«UL to be screwed down, the man ! opened his eyes, gave i gasp or tw i, and actually recovered! Jfc ^ tr ul t.t n i ' *! The I carpenter who marie the coffin wm buried in it the next daVKThe iiWv# U die bed authenticated circumstance ui tilts fVarf‘ul description that has vet met our not i »s The facts, a* given above are certified to by all the pas^ngers on the boat, and the certificate* and signatures may be mo by catling 0u C»pt. Kendrick- Since Lhe fact of premature buriels l»as o****n ro d* atly eM b!ihvd, we think it nine tU it the law was lUrecl-d to it.r Cm. ConubtrcUI.
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Madison Daily Courier
Madison, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 16, 1849
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