The Dead Alive.

Evening Star, Issue 8409, 9 January 1891, Page 3

The Dead Alive.

The funeral of Mrs Louise Burmester took place in San Francisco on December 12, the remains being interred in the Oddfellows’ Cemetery. A remarkable story in connection with the burial came to light subsequently. Mrs Burmester for the past year had resided with her husband at F,odeo Valley, in Contra Costa County, For several months she suffered from a complication of diseases. Physicians were unable to bring her out of a final sinking spell on the morning of December 3, and she died without a struggle. Some hours after death preparations were commenced to bring her body to San Francisco for burial, the family owning a burial plot in the Oddfellows’ Cemetery. To the surprise of the friends of the family the corpse showed signs of life, and ten hours after the supposed dissolution the physicians who had been called to make an examination of the body pronounced the woman not dead, but in a cataleptic state. She was finally brought back to life, and was able to take nourishment. The shock to her system, however, was so severe that she was unable to recover. Everything known to medical science was done, but the unfortunate woman died on the following day, twenty-eight hours after her supposed death.