The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-07-30
PREMoNITIoNs AND DREAMS
The Mystery Connected With the
Loss of the Arctic.
s.. Louis Republican, July l6,l


ST. LOUIS July Is, 1879.
EDITOR RErtBIIcAS: In an editorial ON
''Fhe Loss Of the Arctic" Won sneak Of the
remarkable clairyoyant phenomena connect
ed with the fate of Mrs Collins. son ana
| daughter al that time, and detailed in the Re
publican. Would II DOT be Of sufficient interest
| 70 your readers to repubIish nj least the sail
! ent points Of those phenomena An occurrence
| ia my own family the past week has awaken
Ell my interest in such phenomena On Fri :
! day morning last my wife, on awakening
| spoke of a terrible dream she has had during
| the night. She thought she saw a telegram in
which the name Maize her sisters YOUNGEST
| child appeared, and It's age and date Of death
| She also seemed to be at a funeral but all
| she could remember distinctly was The tele-
gram and the name it bore You can imagine
my surprise when, about O'Clock the same
morning dispatch was handed me Mt my
| place of business, the first word of which was
| Maize and the contents reciting her death on
| the previous day. To-davmy wife Is expcri-
| eneIng the truth of the remainder Of her dream
| rs she is attending the funeral at a distant
place. | have only 10 add, 10 complete the
r0markableness OF this occurrence, that the
latest news of the child previous to the r.
ceipt OF the telegram, and, ii / may add,
dream, spoke Of her as being very healthy and
rosy. The dream could not have been caused
by any anxiety for It's welfare.
Very respectfully,
Thestory our CORES poudcnt desires repeated.
was originally told 70 representative OF the
Republican more than twenty wears ago hy a
gentleman who ut the time was the private
secretary aud intimate personal friend of Capt
r. X. Collins. Its authenticity is beyond
doubt. We may remark that our informant
was Of skeptieal turn Of mind and, while
vouehing for the facts narrated, made no at
tempt at explanation.
In the spring or early summer Of IS54. Mrs
Collins and her son and daughter went abroad
on a continental tour. For The benefit Of her
husband the wife kept n diary, which was
transmitted 10 him in weekly instalIments
and hy which he was enabled To- follow th,
movements II the party from day 10 day. All
that time ctairvoyance was attracting couaid-
cradle attention in New York ana one evening
having nothing else to do, Captain Collins re-
solved to crafty his curiosity concerning IT,
Accordingly lie called upon lady medium,
whom he had never seen before, and asked
Tor information in regard 70 the present where
about5 Of his family, mentioning neither name I
nor supposed locality. The medium went IN (
TO what is termed q the trance state % described 4
the three persons with sufficient accuracy, and /
also the church they were then visiting. Cap
tain Collins made memorandum OF the date,
etc, and when the letter arrived covering that
particular period Of the journey, found the
communication was quite correct
He called once or twice atterward with equally {
satisfactory results and then dropped the in
vestigation which had served 10 while away "a
few dull hours.
The family BY previous arrangement, were
to return ON the Arctic. The steamer being
due in New York Saturday night or early Sun
day morning, Captain Collins, instead of go
ing out to his country residence usual re-
manned over night at his brothers house in the
city. At the breakfast table next morning llc
wore an anxious look, and in answer to an in
4 TOD III H.
confessed that bad dreams in relation to the
Arctic had disturbed his slumbers He was
laughed at OF course, but the dreams had made
such impression upon him that he could not
entirely rid himself OF it, Sunday aud Mon
day passed and no news of the absent vessel
The unexpected delay naturally increased his
anxiety, and he remembered the clairYoYaut.
He sought her out, and at his request-but
with preliminary eXplanation-ahe again
went into "the trance state Her first eXcla-
nation was that she could see nothing--that
everything seemed enveloped in A cloud. FL
nally, she was able to discover the three peE-
sons, standing ON the deck of a ship amid coz
fusion which indicated trouble of some sor4
and with mist or fog all around them. Her
vision revealed no more, but this was
enough to intensity the fears of the huk-
band and father He returned to the oifics,
told his private secretary what had passed.
and resumed the weary watching and waiting.
Next day-Wednesday we think-at II
o'clock while the dozen clerks were engaged
IN their various duties, well dressed stranger
rushed into the office from Broadway
without a hat, and evidently in terrible
excitement Throwing his hands above his
head he exclaimed: THE Arctic is lost of
Cape Race. Only so many giving the
lumber) saved, and my brother is among the
lost p He was Immediately surrounded byia
,rowd, but in response to all questions spoken,
hen broke away, rushed out into the street
md disappeared. Not until twenty-four (
hours later was the first telegram received i
conveying the intelligence Of the loss OF tile i
Arctic and the arrival of boat load of the {
survivors, on the Canadian coast The strap t
ser's information was verified, but how did he :
ret IT? As soon as Captain Collins had par
tally recovered from the effects of the calarh-
ty which robbed him of wife, son and daugh- (
er, he offered a large reward for the unknown Z
parsonage, and employed the whole detective I
orce OF the city in the search. But all In
rain. Nothing has been heard Of him from
hat day till this. The mystery is 4 myatety