Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-04-11
SAVED BY PREsENTImENTS.
Strange and Mysterious Warnings Needed
ia Time to Escape Death.

Il want to tell YOU story" said
DIR. Moliere, well-knowu physician,
to reporter of the San Francisco
Chronicle. I'm not a superstitious
man. nor do | believe in dreams, but
for the third ca fourth time IN my life
| WAS saved by a premontion. | got
aboard car No. 81 on the Suffer street
line at the ferry yesterday. to ride up
to my office. As usual, | walked to
the forward end Of the car, took seat
in the corner with my back to the
driver, aud, pulling paper from my
pocket, was soon deeply engrossed in
the news. Suddenly something said to
me, Go to the other end OF the car.
Acting on impulse, | changed my seat,
aud so rapid were my movements that
the other passengers in the car noticed
them. Remember, | was sitting i'm the
first place with my back to the driver.
| was paying no attention to anything
but my newspaper. and the Fremont
ton, if | may SO call it, could not have
come from any outside influence. such
rs seeing approaching danger, but.
sir. had not been in my new seat
more than tive seconds when the
tongue. of heavily loaded wagon
crushed through the side Of the car
Just where had been first seated aud
had J not changed my seat my back
would have been broken by the wagon
tongue.
'As / said, continued the doctor
II am not supersttous, but the Incl
dent have just related, taken in con-
neetion with other incidents of sim
liar nature occurring IN my life, make
me believe in spite OF myself that there
is a divinity that shapes our euds,
raugh-hew them how we will. m
In answer To Il question rs 10 what
similar warning or prcmouitiou of
danger nc had ever received. DR..
Moiiere said: well one time | was
riding on the Michigan Central rail
road. 1t was a bitter cold night, aud
when entered the car my feet seemed
frozen. | walked forward and took a
seat next to the stove IN the forward
part of the ear, putting my feet on the
fender. In Il short time a gentleman
changed his seat and came and sat be-
side me The train was running at a
high rate of speed, and the draught
soon made the heater in the car red
hot Suddenly there came to me a
premonitiou OF danger, aud. turning to
my companion, | said: If we should
meet with an accident, collision, for
instance, you and | would be in a bad
place. We would certainly be hurled
on a red hot stove AT the same ip-
slant, and before my seat mate could
reply, the impulse 10 grasp the end of
the seat came upon me so strong |
could not resist it and hardly had my
fingers closed upon the rail of the seat
when there came a crash and the car
we were in was thrown violently from
the track. | clung to the seat. and
my companion when thrown forward
narrowly missed the stove. My posi-
ton in the seat was such that had |
been pitched headlong as he was
could not have missed the heater A
broken rail caused the accident, but
what caused me to grasp the seat as |
did would like to know,
Speaking of Dr. Moliere's story to a
sporting man, the latter said Well
I've had the same sort of experience
once or twice in my life. I'm super
stitious | admit it, OF course fell
lows laugh at me, but for all that be-
lieye Eve got some sort of a guardian
angel that whispers to me when I'm
in danger Maybe it's one of the
wrong sort for they DO say the devil
takes care of his own; but wrong or
right as to kind, know one thing GER
tain, that my life has been saved more
than once. One time was at race
course aud was up in the grand stand.
| was broke and wanted to keep away
from the boys. There were not many
people on the stand; it wasn't half
filled, but suddenly | felt an Impulse
which fairly drove me out OF the place
| had not cot clear down the Stairs
when the whole stand went down with
crash. and the fellow who was sitting
right next 90 me was crushed out Of
all semu.auee TO humanity by great
big beam that smashed the whole row
of seats we were in. Tba, IS not the
only time that / have been warned,
an if the what-is-it would only wins
per TO me when | 30 TO put my money
On the wrong horse I'd De a million
aire in a month.