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NEARLY BURIED ALIVE.m«r iwftil ri prrtrrar** tJftU*r*OF** Uj mti Iiiitt*ft* Furniff.Tu .Tune UWW. fJeorjr* Wc?lHfigrtan, an Indiana farmer. fail Into a Imne** which rnifir near bolnjr the muse of hli nniljtijj a horrible death by beiafr buried alive, Of cmirae hr wim top jmihi ii to be dpud, and the doctor who wii* Ballad lo make the examination so declared. thil a*s Wellington had refin'd in perfect hnftlth the nltfht before there were those tuntn*r the mdtfhlKMrs and friends who at ronjrly objected to any undue haul«in putting the remains of the popular farmer under ground. Finally, however, ttrninjremcni h for tin* burial w. re all completed and the supposed corpse loaded into n henrse, After the remains hud hero deposited if the wnp-*n of dr till. ami before the procession hud left the house n runaway learn collided with the heni-Ht? and n nee rein onion elj dumped the ivlt;fl1n oid upon the hnrd trrouiul. This hrok* the trance, nnd the thor* oiipl.lv frlpht- tied WrdliiUfhm veiled:• dor ium!** M|.ke let me out of this! What happened prior to tiih lit -ky tie tddent is feinted in the farmer's own Words ft* follows: *T retired in myusual health* hut notified that I did not frill n d* ep until after titldnljjrhi. When I a iv ok ft the clock was *drikbujr five, 1 jutide a movement to tp t out of In d, hut, to niy {ima/tOHiMit, emtld Mir neither hand nor foot. I hud full us* •»f my ojirm hut could not open ui.v eye®.1 urpned at first tli.it I was Tint yet wide it iv* i ke. hut sv lit! n rny wife shook me nnd railed in© by name and I could not respond by inorhift even ati eye lltl. I became satisfied that 1 wn,»In » trance. My mind wnit new••learer ttitd ttiv hearing tvan puin-folly neute J ma le effort after effort to throw off the weight that WsUDOtt holdInjr me down, but it wim not until riftor the doctor hod pronounced me dead that 1 fell any real alarm. Up tlt; that time it bad seemed as if J could s**on tret rid «f the vv.dtfht Tlmi a ffiiu been tired |u the mom I am sure tin Pipe 11 would have been broken, hut nf ter the doctor** ultimatum I felt sure thnt I was to he buried alive. Horrible thoughtf It wnn nil of n smlUm that it Unshed across mv mind, but it troubled me more than 1 can tell. An I had never died 1-hue, luuv wan I to Itmw the sRnwlIno? Could llie ch ad hcnrnml think? Was the mind of n corpse in no tire operation when preparation* were iKdtiff made To bury it forever? These were problems which 1 could not solve, and the nj?ony tin y caused me u ill never be known.—St Louis Republic-
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Shenandoah Evening Herald
Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Jul 06, 1892
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