The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-11
SAVED BY PRemoNl1IoNs.
Warnings That n Doctor Needed in Time
to Escape Harm.
Isan Francisco Chronicle

to Escape Harm.
San Francisco Chronicle
81 want TO tell YOU q story" said Dr.
Moliere to a reporter. "Pm not a super
stitious man, nor 10 | believe in dreams,
but Yesterday, for the third or fourth time
in nv life, was saved by premOnition.
got aboard OF car No. 81 on the Sutter-st
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, and pulling a
paper from my pocket was soon deeply
engrossed in the news. Suddenly some
thing said to me: Go TO the other
end of the car Acting on impulse, L
changed my seat, and so rapid were my
movements that the other passengers in
the car noticed them. Remember, / was
sitting in the first place with my back to the
driver, was paying no attention to any
thing except my newspaper, and the pre-
monition, II l may so call II, could not
have come from any outside influence,
such as seeing approaching danger, but,
sir, had not been in my new seat more
than five seconds when the tongue of a
heavily loaded wagon crushed through the
side of the car just where ] had been first
seated, and had not changedImy seat my
back would have been broken by the
wagon-,ongue.
"As said" continued the doctor, 81
am not superstitious, but the incident
have Just related, taken in connection
with other incidents of a similar nature
occurring in my life, makes me believe, in
spite OF myself, that there is destiny
that shapes our ends, rough hew them as
we will"
In answer to n question as to what sim
liar warning or premonition of danger he
had ever received, DR.. Moliere said !:
"Well, one time | was riding on the Mich
igan Central railroad. 1t was bitter cold
night, and when / entered the car my feet
seemed frozen. / walked forward and took
a seat next to the stove in the forward part
of the car, putting my feet on the fender.
In a short time a gentleman changed his
seat and came and sat beside me. The
train was running at high rate of speed,
and the draught soon made the heater in
the car red hot. Suddenly there came to
me premonition of danger, and turning
TO my companion l said: If we should
meet with an accident, collision for in
stance, you and would be in bad place
We would certainly be hurled on that red
hot stove at the same instant, and be-
fore my seat-mate could reply, the i'm
pulse to grasp the end of the seat came
and hardly had my fingers closed upon
the rail of the seat when there came q
crash, and the car we were In was thrown
violently from the track. / chung to the
seat, and my companion, when thrown
forward, narrowly missed the stove My
position in the seat was such that had |
been pitched headlong, as he was, L could
not have missed the heater. A broken
rail caused the accident, but what caused
me to grasp the seat as l did i would like
to know"
Speaking of Dr. Moliere's story to a
well-knOwn sporting man, the latter said ::
"Well, I've had the same sort OF expert
ence once or twice in my life. I'm super
sttiOus. / admit it. OF course, fellows
laugh at me, but for all that / believe I've
got some sort Of a guardian angel that
whispers to me when I'm in danger. May
be 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 certain, that my life has been
saved more than once. One time l
was at q race course, and was up
in the grand stand. ! was broke and
wanted 10 keep away from the
boys. There were not many people on
the stand; it wasn't half filled; but sud-
denly / felt an impulse which fairly drove
me out of the place. had not got clear
down the stairs when the whole stand
went down with a crash, and the fellow
who was sitting right next to me was
crushed out of ali resemblance to humani-
ty by great big beam that smashed the
whole row Of seats we were in. That is
not the only time / have been warned,
aud if the what-is-it would only whisper
10 me when L 20 to put up money on the
wrong horse I'd be a millionaire in a
month"