Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1889-07-12
cRAzED BY THE FLOOD.
Young Chicago Heirrss's Strange Conduct
at BROAD 1t. station, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia InquiIer.

A Young Chicago Heir-ss's Strange Conduct
at broad St. station, Philadelphia.
Philadelphia inquirer.
Miss Molie Robbins, one of Chicago's
Ieigning society queens, and an heiress to
nearly half million, has been crazed by
the Johnstown flood. She appeared at
the Broad street station yesterday morn
ing, and caused a scene by her eccentric
conduct. Miss Robbins is not over twenty
years old. SIZE is handsome and stylish,
and wears fortune in diamonds. The
family reside in the fashionable quarter
in Michigan avenue, in Chicago. She be-
leves that the man to whom she was en-
gagged to be married was lost in the flood.
In order to cure her of the delusion her
mother and brother have brought her to
this city, and will take her to Johnstown,
where it is hoped that meeting with her
affianced husband will restore her reason.
Miss Robbins appeared at the Broad
street station just before the Western ex-
press started out. She approached one
of the officials, and tapping him on the
shoulder, said:
ais this the safest road to heaven"
The official was too surprised to reply
tt the question, and the young woman
continued:
"Yes! You may think me crazy, but
/ am not. am as sane as you are, but
want to find the safest road to Heaven,
and am told this is one of them"
MISS ROBBINS STRANGE DREAM.
The man laughed aud said he guessed
this was as safe road as any other She
walked away from him. but returned
moment later and said .,,..
Il don't want you to have the impress
sion that am crazy, because am net |
am looking for the safes' road to IL heaven
of rest for the summer, and if you can di-
rect me will be very much obliged to
you. You see, / am the Goddess of
Shade and Dew, and if / can keep away
the burning sun from those of my satel-
lites will have made their way smooth
to the good spot. Say. have lost my
wings. Can they be in the carriage?"
While the young woman was rambling
on in this strain TO the aslonished official,
an aged motherly-looking woman, ac-
companied by IL tall young man, stepped
up to the young girl and said: Come,
AIollie dear, we missed you" Then the
trio walk ed away. The tall young man
was Miss Robbins brother, and when he
was seen by n reporter he said that the
Johnstown flood was the cause of his sis
ter's present mental condition.
"The night before the flood she awoEe
from sound sleep and startled the whole
household 10y her unearthly screams. 1t
was two hours before we could calm her,
and strange to say, when we questioned
her we discovered that she had dreamed
the dam had burst at Johnstown, and the
flood had carried away her intended, who
was in that neshborhood, and had wash
ed his body up into IL tree, where she had
been struggling to release it. She could
not be wholly quieted, but imagined she
was an angel trying to pull the body from
the tree, that unless she did sc she could
not find the pathway to heaven.
TO BE TAKEN TO JoHNsTowN.
We brought her on to see one of Phil
adelphia's noted insanity specialists, and
he suggested We take her to Johnstown
and see if the surroundings and the meet
ing with her intended, who WAS not there
at the time of the food, bat whom she
has since not seen, will uut restore her.
She is very quiet, Is perfectly sane on all
other subj'cs and if this dclusion can be
dispellcd We will he happy.
But the straAsest part is that she
| plainly descrihr,I twenty four hours he.
fore the flood cArctly as it occurred. Oh,
yes we wclc II, qumnted there and spent
| two week Irsi ,nmmcr in the town. 1t
seems her inrmird had written TO her the
day before the flood. telling her he would
not be surprised Ii the dam should some
| day burst and wash out J0hnStown,
That was un her mind and evidently in
! tluenced her dreams, says the physician"
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