The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-20


''Whoop up the romplng spooks out
east of Barstow" said JOHN Carson.
an Atlantic and Pacific Railroad man,
to a reporter yesterday. 81 saw you
had something in the Eranstaer several
weeks ago about the mirage on the
Moiaye Desert. and myriads Of people
that we've seen in boats about there
Well, they're thickeningdp. In win
ter time, you know, they always get
thicker. For eight months now have
been running the hundred-mile divis-
ion out east of Bafstow. The spooks
used to loom up about every other day.
Now we see them nearly all tie time.
They're the ghoulest lot OF things. too,
| ever did see. Thev appear in all
sorts of shapes At first they were 9
tolerable respectable lot OF ghosts,
clad In white, with faces and hands
that looked very much like apparitions
as shown in pictures, only they APP
peared and disappeared, foatcd hori-
zontally aud IN every other position in
the air, and always stand about a
quarter Of mile away from US. Now
You can get within an eighth Of mile,
and some of them are trigged oHt like
indians, with feathers in their hair,
and sometimes with streak Of red
around their bodies.
.sThe scientists say that the increase
in the phenomena Is owing to the PEI
culiar atmospheric changess at this
time of the year. WhetherH Is or not,
1 know they would have very hard
time convincing the people ef it who
travel over our line a woman last
week, WHO VAS fRom Illinois. tainted
dead away when size g0t 4 glimpse Of
a lot OF them saiihug Oh an imaginary
lake. Lakes and green trees appear
without number on. the Colorado des-
ert. Fringing these lakes with 4 circle
Of green aud With the strange charae-
tiers asating about on them a queer
sight is presented You never can get
nearer than an eighth Of a mile to
these lakes.
There rose up in frontof the engine
last Saturday, however,, said Mr..
Carson, 'sthe strangest congl0mera-
tion os ngures that presume mortal
eyes ever kehelof. Ever see pictures 81
Dante's sInferno as Illustrated by
Dora? Ii was something like that, the
weirdest, ,awfusest sight~-an admixture
of floating arms. legs, and pieces Of
shrouds. Three or -four white-faced
women, as many gray-bearded men.
and . solemu-yisaged priest in black
robes tloated ia the blue ether with the
mass. Sol Anderson, our engineer.
was the most scared man You ever
saw. Re put Oh every pound of steam
he had. and we went tearing over the
desert like mad. Wells-Fargo's agent,
I thought would have died. Lncky for
US that the awful mirage hovered BY
the engine and tender, else we should
nayc had q bowling lunatic asylum
aboard the trais. Do you suppose
could have convinced them the things
were not genuinep Not much. Fact
is, had all could do to hold my own
self level Every time Hooked al them
] said: My Cod those things are realI
There can't be anything so clearly
represented as that and not be gem
uineF Well. they hoySred there for
full twenty minutes. and then disap-
peared fjke flash. Beyond were
nothing bur our green-fringed lakes.
THE desert Just now is unusually
haru anu parcncus Inc sun SHINES
clear and warm. If the apparitions
thicken l don't know what we Will do
with our people. Some Of them are
likely % 80 raying mad. ~ San Fy0zs-
ciSc0 Erupassef