| Show pad adventurers CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OP OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF 1 terrible resurrection by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter OU know boys and girls there are all kinds of fear some of y YOU them are worse than others and the fear that comes on you when death is staring you right in the eye comes pretty close to being the worst of them all but there is one kind of fear that is worse than even the terror of approaching destruction martin J colbert chicago had a taste of that sort of terror once the kind of fear that has been known to make mens minds crack and turn them into gibbering idiots mart had an experience with the ghastly unknown he saw the impossible happen he saw something that be explained except as the horrible manifestation of some ghostly supernatural hand band he saw a row ot of dead and buried corpses start rising from their gravel grave it was a thing terrifying enough to make hardened men drop senseless from sheer fright it shook mart colbert to the very marrow of his bones all this happened in 1902 along about the end of june for several years mart had been in south africa fighting with the british forces in the boer war solemn duty precedes big celebration when peace was declared at the end of may 1902 he was a soldier in the fifth R I 1 lancers a cavalry regiment stationed about fifty miles from its depot at cape colony when the good news was received the lancers packed up and started back to their depot and when they arrived there it was announced that they had bad two weeks in which to clean up and rest and get ready for one last job they would have to do before returning to england that job was to bring in the dead scattered in temporary graves throughout the country for reburial in a military cemetery the two week rest period passed all too quickly and mart was detailed to a squad consisting of himself three other privates and a sergeant commanded by lieutenant cooper they proceeded to a point about fifteen miles from where the lancers had been in action some time before and where e a number of their men had fallen and were buried the kind of work that raises goose flesh arriving at the spot the men started to work at their grisly and unpleasant job it was open country and there was an abandoned farmhouse about a quarter of a mile away the lieutenant carried a rough map made in the field which showed where all the dead of the regiment were buried and he pointed out the graves which were to be dug up it was the sort of work that gave the men the jitters they dug up the bodies of two of their old buddies but none of them relished the job X N i k alm age mf corpses began pushing their way up oat of the ground As they took the second man out of his grave one of the men discovered a third grave close by it was a wide grave much wider than the other when then it was pointed out to the lieutenant be said it looked as it if several bodies were buried there together he looked on his map but this grave appear on it whatever was underneath that broad mound it was evident that it contained none of the lancers dead but in order to be on the safe side the lieutenant ordered the men to dig up that grave as they had dug up the others their eyes believe what they saw it was that grave which was to give mart and his buddies the most terrible fright of their lives the men were taking turns with the spades two men at a time went down into the graves to do the digging mart and another fellow had dug down the first couple of feet and now two other men were in there digging mart another private sergeant kirby and the lieutenant were standing at the edge of the pit watching the others work the two diggers had bad worked their way down to about a level of four feet below the ground their spades were working rhythmically tossing out one scooping of earth after another mart was looking at the bottom of the grave when suddenly his whole body stiffened the other men saw it too the earth at the bottom of the grave began to move dirt and stones tell fell aside and a row rove of long buried corpses hardly more than skeletons began pushing their way up out of the ground strong men fainted in terror down in the grave the two diggers dropped unconscious 9 from sheer terror mart with the icy hand of fear clutching at him turned and ran the rest of the bendid men did likewise no sensation mart has ever known could quite equal that strange horrible feeling that came over him at the sight of those long dead skeletons pushing their way up through the earth at the bottom of their common gravel grave I 1 they ran full tilt for about fifty feet and then they stopped I 1 looking at each other in fear and wonder they looked back at the grave but there was no other sign of life there then they got a grip on themselves what about the two men who had been digging the men who were now lying senseless in that ghastly pit with its row of moving corpses they had to get them out of there explanation Is a satisfactory one they went back slowly reluctantly the men were still lying there unconscious the corpses a row of bones clad in rotted clothing and topped by grinning skulls were where they had been when they last saw them they had moved upward a few inches and then stopped they went down and pulled out the two unconscious men and found out the explanation of the whole grisly business the corpses had been buried on a bed spring it had collapsed with the weight of the earth that bat was piled on it but as the men dug down the pressure was relieved until when the earth was almost au all shoveled away the spring rebounded again pushing the bodies upward we found that this was wis a boers grave probably people from the abandoned farmhouse a quarter of a mile away says mart we could teu tell that by the remains of civilian clothing that still clung to the bodies the lieutenant ordered us to put the bones back in place and fill up the grave again but afterward we did no more digging for the rest of the 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