The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-02-16
A REMARKABLE DREAM
A Terrible Railroad Accident Foretold in n
Sleeping Vision.

All the world likes to talk about dreams
and half believes in them, in spite of the
pretension to the contrary, and much talk
about physiological causes. A dream
story, in which late railroad accident
was the subject and celebrated singer
the dreamer, has just come to light
Zelda Sesuin, On the night of oeptem-
Der %, was in Omaha. That night Mrs.
Seguin dreamed that she was in rail
road 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 to a
young lady who occupied the same seat
with her. The young lady was a close
friend and in the dream Mrs. Seguin
thought it perfectly natural that they
should be travelling together. She heard
somebody say 'Diefendorf Hill" That
part of the dream she remembered with
special distinctness. The popularity of
dream dialogues is that, though one
seems to be saying much and hearing
much, only few sentences of it stand
boldly out in the memory after the dream
er opens his eyes on new day. And so
Mrs. Seguin, sleeping in Omaha thirty
six hours before the accident Oh the West
Shore road, dreamed she was whirling
along near Utica, and heard the name of
Diefendorf Hill, spoken distinctly. Then
she saw her girl companions face turn
to that peculiar shade of white which
only terror can produce-saw the same
CHASTITY rigidity Of muscle spread over the
faces of the other passengers, and stimuli
taneously felt shock which instantly
expanded iuto a grating, grinding, horri-
bic jar that seemed to splinter the very
rocks beneath the earth. Then all was
blotted out in one vast engulfment of
darkness. Out Of this Mrs. Seguin seemed
to rise III that mysterious way in which
we are all extricated from dilemma in
dreams, until she could look down upon
the wreck from the air above it. She saw
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embrace. twisting, belchng, groanins as
though in mortal agony; saw also the cars
which were thrown from the track, dam
aged and crippled like great animals, and
withal saw in one of them the friend who
had sat beside her but Il moment before.
She was now lying helpless in the dread
full mass Of debris, her face death like
and her form motionless. There the
dream stopped. She told it next morn
ing, as it was still fresh in her mind
on waking, but did not, Of course, think
that it had any significance. What was
her surprise within three days to read of
the accident that occurred on the first of
October on the West Shore road and later
to learn that the same young friend who
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 sheer and
a smile, tell, if they can do it, why Zelda
Seguin, sleeping in her bed, more than a
thousand miles west of Utica, should SO
accurately dream out an accident three
days before it occurred, and associate a
friend with it whom she believed to be
safe in her home in one of the interior
towns, of Pennsylvania. She had retired
after an evening of more than usual
honor. The applause had been generous
to embarrassment. Nothing had occur
red to call up any thoughts of peril or
accident. Yet in her dream she both felt
tie shock ana saw the ruins of the wreck.
Once before Zelda had a remarkable
dream in regard to public event which
soon after happened. Three nights be-
fore Jim Fisk was shot she dreamed she
was walking up Broadway and the entire
street was draped in mourning. The
shutters of every store were closed, and
in white letters ON black ground of
every one of them was the name of Jim
Fisk. She turned into other streets and
it was the same. Everywhere there was
the drapery of mourning and the name
Jim Fisk in white letters. This dream
she told the next morning to her friends,
and on the third day thereafter was
shocked beyond expression 20 learn that
Fisk had been shot. Yet she had never
even seen him.