The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1874-10-16
DREAMS OR VISIONS!
Singular Incident Connected with
Bishop Lees Death.

4 private letter from davenport, Iowa,
in Boston, Contains the follow
ing:
"We have been very anxious the last
two weeks over the illness of Bishop
Lee, which terminated in his death on
morning. The whole commu-
nifty are saddened by the event. Some
two months ago he got up in the night
and took bath, and ON returning to his
room he made a mistake and stepped off
a long flight of starts, and landed at the
foot with tremendous crash, as he was
very heavy, weighing over 200 pounds.
1t aroused the whole family, and Mrs.
Lee and Carrie sprang from their beds,
and, lighting each a candle, went to see
what had happened, and found the Bish-
op lying on the floor of the entry. He
got up, however, without aid, and SEEM
ed to have received no injury except
few slight bruises, though his right
hand vas a little famed. Mr.. H. and
myself called on him two days after,
and while telling us the circumstances
of the fall he mentioned this coinci-
dence: He had letter in his hand,
which he had just received from his son
Henry, living at Kansas City. His son
wrote; Are you well, for last night had
a dream that troubles me- / heard
crash, and strating up said to my wife,
"Did you hear that crash?" / dreamed
that father had fall and was dead. /
got up and looked at my watch, and it
was two o'clock. 1 could not sleep
again, so vivid was the dream And
it made him anxious to hear from home.
The Bishop said that he was not super
stitious, but he thought it remarkable
that Henry should have had the dream
at the very hour of the same night that
the accident occurred. The difference
in the time there and here is just fifteen
minutes, and it was 2:15 by his watch,
making it at the same moment. 1t was
as if he had actually heard the fall. And
the fall finally caused the Bishops
death. His hand became intensely pain
full, and gangrene set in, which after two
weeks of suffering, terminated his life"
A CURIOUS STORY FROM MAINE ABOUT
THE FALL RIVER FIRE.
The editor of the brunswick Me. J
Telegraph, himself trustworthy man,
in the issue of his paper for last week,
tells the following:
On Monday last we called on Mr..
John Fitzgerald, the well-known tenn
perance lecturer, diving on Bank street, }
who is confined to his bed, quite feeble,
but still able to converse briefly with
friends who call. At this interview he
related to US remarkable experience,
for SO we will call it, through which he
passed on Saturday morning 18th ult.,
the day upon which the fire occurred in
Fall River, Mrs. Fitzgerald had arrang-
ed her husband for his morning nap,
and left to enter the stable, in the rear
of the house and attached thereto; al
most as soon as she had passed into the
building, she heard the cry of "fre," IN
tones so startling that she rushed back
to the house in the greatest alarm, to
hear her husband repeat the cry in tones
as loud as the first call-all the more
startling to her as for several days he
had spoken not above a whisper; he was
evidently greatly excited, catching at
the bed-clothes, and attempting to get
out of bed-saying he must have his
clothing. Mrs. Fitzgerald asked her
husband ".What does this mean?"
"Wife," says Mr. Fitzgerald, "there is
fire in a factory in Fall River, Mass.
in the upper story, the mule room; see
the sparks fly from the machinery a:
sparks fly from grindstone when men
are grinding their tools, and the factory
is full of women and children. 1 see il
ALL"
Mr.. Fitzgerald remarked that hi
wife must tell us the rest, which she die
substantially as follows-put in as brie
a form as possible, as our only object il
to make plain recital of what we heard
in the course of conversation: Mrs
Fitzgerald then went on to remark tha
her husband all the time was endeavor
ing to get up from his bed to escape th'
| fire, saying that it was near to him, anc
he must assist the poor people-clost
that door into the entry or the womeI
and children will be burned to death
an old sailor, he could rig better lad
der than that-splice this, splice that
don't jump from the windows (this ex
preston oft repeated,) for it is only
choice of death between fire and beinj
crushed upon the pavement-to the fire
men, why do you do this and why d
you do that-see those poor women ant
little children filling the room, and ye
the laws of Massachusetts forbid tn
employment in factories of children un
der certain age. Mrs. Fitzgerald wa
alone with her husband, and exerted he
utmost strength to keep him in bed.
/ seemed 10 ner almost an aBeJ DuL sn
took no note of time. All at once Nj
Fitzgerald fell back upon the pillo'
and said: at is all over; the roof ha
fallen in, and those poor people are burn
ed" After that he was completely pros
trated; and Mrs. Fitzgerald for som
time feared that he would not recove
from the shock.
Mr.. Fitzgerald said he never though
of looking at his watch, but that he sa'
the fire in the morning, somewhere fror
seven to nine o'clock. It was not unit
Monday that Mrs. Fitzgerald heard {
the fire, and not until Tuesday, 22d, sh
got paper containing an account of i
This she read to her husband; he sever;
times stopped her and told her what W;
to come in the newspaper account, &
"he had seen it ALL" Subsequently NJ
| Fitzgerald repeated somewhat, and sai'
"I saw the fire, but somehow / coul
5 not tell the building, and it must be
/, factory put up since was acquainte