Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1870 — Recovery of a Supposed Dead Man. [ARTICLE]

Recovery of a Supposed Dead Man.

The terrors of the gray?, the fear of death, and the terrible calamity of being buried alive, have all been forcibly pictured score than once ; but any picture, however dearly drawn, must fail to leave the impression produced of either that is obtained by experience; and in no case can any one be so alive t* these terrors and fears as the one who, being considered 4^d, : is treated as such. For some time pafet a German, known by the name of Frederick, worked in a dining saloon on First street as waiter. His constitution was weak, and the confinement necessarily attending his employment affected him.vßry much. He consulted some physiciaha, who pronounced him consumptivt*aiß4advised him to give up his employment, and put himself under the care of a afcysician, or goto the hospital. He decided on adopting the latter course, andjaptne short time ago went to one of ournospitals. His condition rather grew worfa daily, and 'lately he was confined to bed;* and little hopes entertained of his recovery. About a week ago he grew still worse. He was visited in the morning by the physician, who considered his recovery hopeless. During the day he grew and when the doctor paid his evening vi6it he found him pulseless, and pronounced life extinct The body was immediately removed and placed in the dead-house attached to the hospital. It ■wasjlegjosited in a case where two other bodies had already been placed, and between them. The cover was put on, and the keeper of the dead-house retired -for tha night About midnight a loud Bcreaming and yelling, of the most unearthly character, was heard in the dead-house. The watchers heard it, the patients heard the party who had charge -of this portion of the building heard it also. A

silent sense of fear, of terror the most terrifying, stole over them all, and they concluded that a scene was being enacted similar to that witnessed by Tam O’Shanter ajt Alloway, where he saw “ warlofts and Witches in a dance." The keep er qf the de&d-h*use. was sought after, btft weitig aware of what be was required to dm he sought concealment, preferring tout the ghosts fight it out among themselves, rather than attempt to become peacemaker. The yells and shouts in the dead-house still continued, while the door receive*! an- occasional bang, accompanied by the demand: “ Open the door; let me otdff At last the keeper was prevailed upoiv to proceed to the dead-house and oparwtfcrdoor, when the ghostiy torm of the German, whose life had been a few hoti|B previously pronounced extinct, and who had been dressed in the robes of the depd, stood before them. The keeper fainted outright, while the terrified 'German rushed headlong through ; the long halls and corridors of the building, spreading dismay and terror as he went. Some more CQratgeQUs than the rest Caught and arrested him in his frantic career, but the next instant the poor German fell on the floor in a swoon. The physician was at once sent for and restoratives used, by which he was restored to consciousness, and although he is still weak and under treatment-in the hospital, his recovery is considered certain, and only a matter of timA He*now walks about pretty stoutly, and is permitted to go outside tbe hospital Jimitx He visited his late employer a few days, ago, and related to him the fact that, kkriMf.'JOt into a'tranee, it was thought he was : dead, fie was rethe when he returned to consciousness We gjsstfU be told it, himself: p Vel, vcn. I got siqk aid vas In bed that day the doetoMamc to ra« and said i .-vas very sick. He rat sway, nnd after he vet# I fell asleep. I knew nothing more' till I yoke lu de night, ana there* was no light. I put out my baud

and I could get no bedclothes, for I rat cold. I don put oat my band to vonc side to try lot the bedclothes, and, Och, my Gott, vat -yon ti»k I -got—vy, a de<l man I Here be vos, cold enough, sure I roared mid all the power I had, and vas going avjiv by the other side, yen sure, I put my.hauocn andtksr. "Then 11oared, aud called, and cried out all I could, and ven 1 was getting up, my heed struck k board that was covering mb. Oh, said I, vot does tbit thsao, tsre am 1! Am I fled ! and I roared and bawled, and threw on the cov< r ami Jumped about as If I vas mad. And I knocked at the door vid my hands and feet, but nopody would open it for me, and I thought I vas ded myself I vas not shure. I had the ded mnu's dress on me. At last the door opened, and ven I looked at the man vat opened it he fell down mid fear, and I ran till 1 vas caught. Then I fainted, and vun I com* to my Si If, 1 thought It vas a dream. But it is as true aa 1 am here.”—San Francisco Alla.