Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-28
TWO STRANGE DREAMS.
A Singer Sleeping in Omaha Sees
the West Shore Railroad Ac.
cident in a Dream.
New York Letter.l

lNeW Ork Letter.
All the world likes to talk about dreams,
and half believes in them, in spite of great
pretentlons to the contrary, and much talk
about physiological causes A dream story,
in which a late railroad accident was the
subject and a celebrated singer the dreamer,
has just come to light
Zelda Seguin is with the Abbott Opera
company this season, as everybody knows.
So far the company has spent much of it's
time IN the northwest, drawing big houses
and receiving plenty of newspaper praise.
On the night of September 90 it was in
Omaha.
That night Mrs Seguin dreamed that she
was in railroad car near Utica, N. Y. She
knew it was that locality, having passed
over it often. As the train flew along she
thought she saw the different 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
close friend, and in the dream
Mrs Seguin thought it perfectly natural that
they Should be travelling together She
heard somebody say, ''Defendorf Hill.n That
part OF the dream she remembered with
special dlstlnctness. The peculiarity of
dream dialogues. is that though one seems to
De saying much and hearing much, only a
lew sentences of it all stand boldly out in tho
memory after the dreamer opens his eyes on a
new day. And SO, Mrs. Seguin sleeping in
Onlaha thirty-six hours before the accident
on the West Shore road, dreamed she was
"hirilng along near Utica and heard the
name "Diefendorf Hip spoken distinctly.
linen she saw her girl companions face turn
20 that peculiar shade of white which terror
only can produce-saw the same CHASTITY ri
gldlty OF muscle spread over the face of the
othef passengers. and simultaneously felt
SHOCK which Instantly expanded into a graf
ing, grinding, horrible jar that seemed
10 splinter the very rocks beneath
the earth Then all was suddenly
piotted out In one vast engulfment of dark
ness. Out of this Mrs. Seguin seemed to rise
IN that mysterious way in which we are all
extr1cated from dilemmas in dreams untH
she could look down upon the wreck from
the ar above it, She saw the two engines
locked in each others embrace. twisted.
pelchng, grooming as though in mortal
agony saw also the cars which were thrown
from the track, damaged and crippled like
great animals; and withal saw in one of
them the friend who sat by her side but a
moment before. She was now living heIpless
In the dreadful mass of debris. her face DEATH
Ike and her form motionIess. There the
dream stopped. She told it the next morn
ing, as 1t was still fresh in her mind on wax.
ing up. but did not, of course. think
That 1t had any significance. What
was her surprise within three DAYS
70 read of the accident which occurred on
the LIST OF October, ON the West Shore road:
ana later to learn that the same young friend
VINO had sat beside her in the dream had
really been aboard the wrecked truin and
been injured. Let the people who ex-
PLAIN such things by material reason
mug, or those who waive them aside
with a sneer and smile, tell, il they can.
Why Zelda Seguin, sleeping more than a
thousand miles west of Utica, should 30 ac-
eurately dream out an accident thres dsyz
before 1t occurred, and associate a friend
with 10 whom she believed to be safs in her
nome IN one OF the interior towns Of PcnnsyI-
wanna She bad retired after an evening cf
moro than usual honor. The applasso had
oeen generous to embarrassment Nothing
nao occurred to call up any Thoughts Of porl
OF accident Yet IN her crsau she fsk Shs
shock and saw the ruins Of tho WRECK.
onoe before Zelda Sesuin had rsmsrka.
Die dream I. regard TO 9 pusib svnt which
soon after happened Three nisaes b.fe~s
Jim Fisk was shot she dreamed IA. v.. Ill.
ing up Broadway and tho entire
street WIS draPed in mourning. tn,
shutters OF every stsre wers cios,d
ana In white letters on Q biack ground
on every one was the namo "Jirn Fiss y
She turned into other streets and it was the
same Everywhere there was the drapery OF
mourning and the nams 'Jim Fisk in whit.
letters. This dream she told next mornin.
TO her Trends, and on the third day thereafte
was shocked beyond expression TO learn that
FISK had been shot. Yet she had never even
seen him.