Show PICTURE ON A COFFIN LID the terrifying sight which confronted ran nn eastern grave digger james Cla Clarc back about forty five years of age was recently engaged a it i herrington errington II corners ten miles from elmira IN Y in resurrecting 1 the remains remains of mrs 14 C herrington in order to bury them in another place the body had been under ground for thirty five years and in digging for it Cla struck a great deal of water ile he reached the remnants of the outer box surrounding the coffin and when lie pulled them out of the way lie he was greatly astonished to see what appeared to be mrs Herring tons body app apparently arent undisturbed and so lifelike as to convey v cy to his mind the belief that a living eving 01 breathing woman was before him 1 4 I tell you I 1 was seared scared said clare clarc back to a new anew york sun correspondent ab and I 1 nearly fell over in a faint in the grave when I 1 made an e examination i on however lio wever I 1 discovered that thai it was vaa not I 1 lie body I 1 saw before me but an exact photograph of it on the top of the coffin lid I 1 then raised tho the coflin coan ani and opened it with the exception of the head it contained only a few crumbling bones the head however was vas pe perfectly r preserved the bones were covered with flesh which had petrified the whole being as hard as a stone while 1 the hair had grown to an unusual length ando was 41 vary abundant 11 the coffin lida to a number of people lileas v a m de of cedar and contained an e caSp exa xa a c ct t all t i V a P perfectly I 1 I 1 clear represent representation atio n theny C ce sil woman asslie as slie appeared when she died thirty five years ears ngo ng o just how to account for this no one knows but in lieu of any better explanation that made by the gravedigger grave digger is accepted it is to the offset that water flowing through the grave must nave have raised t the c body so so that it was pressed bcd the 0 lid and the action of tho the gases arising from the body in conjunction with the ali nature of tile the wood forced force d the picture to appear it aa s it did on the outer bide of the coffin lid |