Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1898 — CALLED BACK FROM DEATH. [ARTICLE]

CALLED BACK FROM DEATH.

A Remarkable Story Which Come* from California. A strange story of life beyond the grave comes from Santa Monica, Cal. The facts are vouched for by many reliable witnesses. William Graham, a young man who lived In a little cottage near Santa Monica, apparently died of consumption. He had been ill for months and in the presence.of his weeping wife and a number of the neighbors he gasped out his life. An undertaker was called to prepare the body for the grave, while the widow was led from the room in an agony of grief. After tw’enty minutes the young woman tore herself from her friends and, rushing back to the death chamber, threw herself on the body. In agonized voice she called for her loved one to return, and the watchers in a moment saw a tremor run through Graham’s body. Mrs. Graham also noticed it and began to rub her husband’s face and limbs. Within an hour he recovered sufficiently to speak. Practical ones say it was a case of suspended animation, and that the wife’s movements started the circulation. But there were in the room people of wide experience who declare that the man was dead, and William Graham himself says that he went out of this life, and journeyed Into another country, one that was far more beautiful than this. He describes a beautiful road lined with stately trees, whose verdure was brilliant and wonderful to see; strains of music were in the air, and along the pathway came his father to meet him. He tells of their greeting and conversation, and then of his being torn away, called back to his worn and aching body by the Insistent calls of his wife. “I cannot live anyway. Oh, why didn’t you let me go!” he exclaimed, and now he is longing and waiting for the call that must come soon again.