People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Will Be Buried Alive. [ARTICLE]

Will Be Buried Alive.

A dispatch from Hillsboro, 111., says that the mind reader, A. J. Seymore, is generally known in Illinois and his proposed attempt to be buried and remain in the ground while a crop of barley is grown on his grave creates interest in that, state. Dr. E. C. Dunn, of Rockford, has been selected as manager. Dr. Dunn says: There is no question that this feat can be performed. I have seen it performed successfully three times in India at Allahabad, Delhi and Benares.” For several days Seymore will be fed upon a diet of fat and heat producing food. He will then throw himself into a cateleptic .state, the lungs will be filled with pure air to their fullest capacity, and the tongue placed back and partially down the throat in such a manner as to completely close the aperature to the lungs. The eyes, the nose and the ears will be hermetically sealed with wax. After parafine has been spread over the entire body to close the pores it will be ready for burial. The body will be put in an extra large casket. This will be placed inside of another and both will be perforated in order that if any poisonous gases exude from the body they may make their escape and be absorbed by the soil. The interment is to be made in a clay soil.