People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — BURIED ALIVE. [ARTICLE]

BURIED ALIVE.

Startling; Discovery on Opening; the Grave of an lowa Girl. West Union, la., April 12.—A month ago the 15-year-old daughter of J. Tuckish, a Bohemian living near Protivin, Howard county, died and was buried. It appeared that the day before her death she bad a tooth extracted, taking an anaesthetic, and the following morning was found, as it was supposed, dead in bed. The interment occurred the following day. A few days ago some one, in commenting on the death, said the family had made a mistake in burying the girl so soon, that possibly she was not dead; that the effect of the amesthetic had not worn off. The parents had the body exhumed Monday and the glass of the coffin was found broken, the girl’s hands cut and blood stained and her hair torn out and the corpse on its face.