A HORRIBLE STORY OF THE GRAVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5478, 7 June 1879, Page 7

A HORRIBLE STORY OF THE GRA VE.

Some employees of the Pittsburgh, Titusville and Buffalo Railroad related a strange and horrible story yesterday. It seems a man died last -week at Triumph, a small place not far from Tideonte. Tne body was kept three day 3, and at the expiration of that time buried. Then some curious person remembered that a sister of deceased had lain in a death-like trance for several days. It wa3 suagested that perhaps the man had been prematurely buried. The suspicion took so strong a hold upon the people that it was resolved to exhume the body, and the coffin was disinterred Saturday laet, after having hid three days in the grave. The lid was wrenched off, when a horrible sight greeted the eyes o£ the resurrectionists. Evidently the supposed corpse had revived, and the wretched man had fought desperately for his life. Imprints of bis finger naile were visible on the lining on the coffin, which in some places was torn into shreds. The coffin itself was strained end wrenched apart at the jointings in the death agonies of the miserable man who was bnried alive. He had turned completely over, and was found lying upon his breast, hia distorted countenance indicating the frightful sufferings he had undergone.— Pittsburgh Despatch, April 10.