A Remarkable Recovery.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 6730, 2 November 1896, Page 3

A Remarkable Recovery.

An instance of the recovery of a man, after being apparently drowned, has occurred at New York under circumstances that are probably unique. Samuel Cochran was found in the Hudson River, and, as life was seemingly extinct, he was conveyed to the morgue, being placed on a slab, where he remained for about 24 hours. The morgue keeper then noticed that the eyes, which had previously been shut, were now staring wide open. Cochran was hurriedly removed to the hosipiral, and the doctor, after several hours' hard work, had the satisfaction of restoring him to consciousness. Cochran, when interviewed, said he was sitting ab the end of a wharf and suddenly became dizzy and fell into the water. Though still conscious he was unable to move a hand to try to save himself and sank three times. He then became comatose, and remembered nothing more until he awoke and found himself laid out as dead in the morgue. He added that his experience disposed for him of the theory that there were any pleasant sensations in drowning, and that the memory then recalled the iucidents of a drowning person's past life. Altogether he was in the water four hours.