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A REMARKABLE DREAM.
A Terrible Railroad Accident Torctoid in
u Sleeping Vision.


A Terrible Railroad Accident Forctold in
Sleeping Vision.
Prom the Omaha bee.
All the world likes to talk about dreams and
half believes in them, spite ofgreat pretension
to the contrary, and much talk about physi-
Geological causes. A dream story, in which
late railroad accident was The subject and a
celebrated singer the dreamer, has just come
to light. Zelda Ssguin, on the night Of Sep
TENDER 40, was in Omaha. That night Mrs.
Seguin dreamed that she was in a railroad car
near Utica, N. Y. She knew it was that
locality, having passed over 1t often. As the
train flew along she thought she saw the differ
ent points in the scenery, commenting upon
them from time to time to young lady who
occupied the same seat with her. The young
lady was a close friend, and 10 the dream Mrs.
Seguin thought II perfectly natural that they
should be travelling together She heard
somebody say "Diefeadorf HILL" That part
Of the dream she remembered with special
distinctness. The peculiarly Of dream dia-
logues is that though one seems TO be saying
much and hearing much, only few sentences
Of it stands boldly out in the memory after the
dreamer opens his eyes on a new day. And
so, Mrs. Seguin sleeping 10 Omaha 60 hours
dreamed she was whirling along near Utica
and heard the name "Diefendorf hill"
spoken distinctly. Then he saw her girl
companions face turn TO that peculiar shade
Of white which only terror can produce saw
the same CHASTITY rigdity Of muscle spread
over the face of the other passengers, and
simultaneously felt a shock which instantly
expanded into a grating, grinding, horrible
jar that seemed to splinter the very rocks be
meath the earth. Then all was suddenly
blotted out in one vast enguliment of dark
ness. Out OF this Mrs. Seguin seemed to rise
in that mysterious way in which We are all
extricated from dilemma 10 dreams, until she
could look down upon the wreck from the air
above it. She saw the two engines locked in
each others embrace, twisted, belching,
groaning as though in mortal agony; saw
also the cars which were thrown from the
track, damaged and crippled like great ami
mails, and withal saw in one OF them The friend
who had sat beside her but a moment
before. She was now lying helpless 10 the
dreadful moss OF debris, her face death like
and her form motionless. There the dream
stopped. She told il the next morning as II
wss still fresh in her mir on waking, but did
not, OF course, think that il had any signh.
canoe. What was her surprise within three
days to read Of the accident which occurred
on the list Of October on the West Shore road
and later TO learn that the same young friend
who had sat beside her in the dream had
really been aboard the wrecked train and
been injured. Let the people who explain
such things by material reasoning, or those
who waive them aside with a sneer and a
smile, tell, II they can, why Zelda Seguin,
sleeping more than a thousand miles west OF
Utica, should so accurately dream out an ac-
cident three days before il occurred. and as
sociate friend with II whom she believed to
be safe in her home in one Of the interior
towns in Pennsylvania. She had retired after
an evening Of more than usual honor. The
applause had been generous to embauass-
ment. Nothing had occurred to call up any
thought OF peril or accident Yet in her dream
she felt the shock and saw the ruins OF the
wreck.
Once before Zelda Seeun had a remarkable
dream in regard to public event which soon
after happened. Three nights before Jim Fisk
was shot she dreamed she was walking up
Broadway and the entire street was daped in
mourning. The shutters OF every store were
closed, and in white letters on black ground
on every one was the name Of " I'm Fisk"
She turned into other streets and it was the
same. Everywhere there was the drapery OF
letters. This dream she told next morning to
her friends. and on the third day thereafter
was shocked beyond expression to learn that
Fisk had been shot. Yet she had never even
seen him