Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
A STRANGE DREAM.
A Death Foretoid-Remarkable Document.
airy Case-A College Professors Expe.

airy Case-A College Professors Expe-
rience.
In the case which follows, an extraordi.
nary presentiment in dream of the death oi
a relative, the society has obtained docu-
mentary evidence of the strongest kind.
Prof. Royce, Chairman of the Committee on
/ Phantasms and Presentiments, relates the
case.
The first of the documentary cases.
came to us, along with much other valuable
material, from a professor in Western col
lcge, whose name we need not give, but who
is well known to Rev. Edward Everett
Hale. From the latter we have the best as
surances as to our correspondents high
character. The experience in question did
not happen to our correspondent himself,
but to family connections OF his, from whom
he obtained for us the documentary evil
dence. The narrative may lie introduced
by few words of explanation: In the latter
part of February, 1886, a very severe snow
storm visited New England and the British
Provinces. 1t was especially inconvenient
in the North, and long blockades on the
Northern railways were the result. In the
Boston Advertiser of Tuesday, March 2, 1
find a dispatch from Halifax, reporting
that ''the storm in Northern New Bruins
wick is the worst known for MANY years.
The special train which should have ar
rived here Saturday uoon february 90 is
not likely to reach Halifax till Wednes-
day." Another heavy snow storm is now
raging along the entire line of the inter-
colonial, accompanied by a gale OF wind.
No American mails have been received since
last Thursday february 25)." This item,
which have hunted up in the news of the
day, will form q sufficient basis for under
standing the letter which follows. A gentle
man, Mr.. j. T., a connection of our West
ern correspondent, was at this time in New
Brunswick on business for a Montreal
house. Wednesday. March 8, he wrote a
letter, dated st. John, N. B., and written
on the paper of the Hotel Duferin. / have
had a part of the original in my hands. The
letter is addressed to his wife.
A STRANGE DREAM.
u have not heard of you for an age. The
train that should have been here on Friday
last has not arrived yet had a very strange
dream on Tuesday night l have never been
in Ottawa in my life, and yet was there, in
Mr. Els house. Mrs. E, Miss E. and the
little girls were in great trouble because Mr.
r.
(Mr. E.'s son-in-law). and, strange to say. he
was down n coal mine. When l got down to
him told him that Mr.. E. was dead But in
trying TO get out We could not do it, We
climbed and climbed, but always fell back, |
felt tired out when / awoke next morning.
and cannot account for the dream in any
way"
This death, according to our Western cor
respondent, had actually occurred at New York
City at midnight on Tuesday. February g. one
week before the dream. The delay of the
mails, the substance of the Advertiser dispatch
OF March 2, and the tone of the letter ITSELF
Seem to make it very improbable, in any case
that Mr.. ]. T. could have had any intImaiion Of
the death of MIR. f, or any special Cause for
anxiety about him before the occurrence of
tine dream. As to the circumstances of Mr.. E,s
death, they were as follows, according to our
correspondent.
Early in February, 1886, gentleman, Mr.. E..
living at Ottawa, Ia connection of ;ny family
by marriage, and with whom / was well ac.
quainted,) went from home on business. He
was at the time suffering from a severe cold.
While in New York he became worse, and was
finally seized with pneumonia and taken to a
p.iyate ward in one of the hospitals in that
city. HIS situation became critical, and the
physician in attendance. or his daughter who
was with hlm, telegraphed to his relatives in
Ottawa Later an improvement set in and
more favorable accounts were dispatched
Suddenly, however, and before any of the rest
of his family could reach him, he became worse.
sank rapidly, and died about midnight on the
2Sd of February.
This was on Tuesday He had been uncon.
scions for some hours. Mr.. j. T., also connected
with Mr.. E. IS family but having no close con-
nection with himself, was at tile time some
where in New Brunswick on business for his
firm in Montreal, which had no transactions
with Mr.. e.
VERIFIED BY A LETTER.
In confirmation of this account, our CORE
spondent has sent US letter from his wife's
mother to his wife, dated February 2S, and