The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-28
4. STRANGE STORY.
A Man Who Does Not Believe in Ghosts Sees
One.

| A gentleman who was at the Carey hotel
Sunday told most remarkable story, the
relation of which will attract the attention
Of believers aud unbelievers in the super
natural. The gentleman is travelling
salesman and is well known here. He is a
| moral man and not given to intemperance,
so what he saw was not the creation of a
whisky clouded mind. He told the story
| in all earnestness and was considerably
worried. He did not want his name used
in newspaper; but related his strange
experience to group of friends as follows:
Saturday was very busy all day in
Kansas City and had done a great deal Of
walking. | took the night train out of
there and went into chair car. thinking
/ could rest better there as l do not sleep
much when on a train anyway. | sat in
the chair next to the aisle and placed my
overcoat in the one next to the window.
eve had ridden only few miles from
Kansas City and | was reclining in the
chair, staringvacantly at the top ofthe car.
was not sleepy and was reviewing in my
mind my days work and was mentally
calculating the figures of several small
purchases of some Christmas presents
that had made during the day, when all
at once there appeared TO me the figure of
of IA woman with her arms and shoulders
bare and with a look on her face that
showed her to be suffering with
the cold. I saw her as
and L mechanically reached for my
overcoat, gave it TO her and saw her wrap
herself up in it. Then she disappeared as
suddenly as she had come
Her disappearance seemed to bring me
to my senses, if [ had lost them, which
do not admit, and so thoroughly had her
presence impressed itself upon me that 1
found l had actually picked up my over
coat, passed it across the chair l was in
and dropped it in the aisle. The porter
coming through the car picked it up as l
was reaching for it and placed it back in
the chair next to the window.
II never felt that l was superstitious,
bur tell you this circumstance made me
feel uneasy, to say the least. / finally
got to sleep but during the night l awoke
and thought for an hour about the
strange occurrence The woman re-
sembled no one l had ever met but that
look of suffering in her face will haunt me |
as long rs live.
II tried to think it a dream and |
probably might have ultimately reached |
that conclusion but when the porter |
awakene me in the mornin and told me |
he next station was Wichita / arose |
rom the chair and went to the Mushroom. |
There l met three men, two of whom |
knew, and with whom had come to the |
rain the evening before. It was broad |
daylight, and | was sure enough awake |
heu, when eli at once the woman APP
reared before me as she had early in the /
hight. l had the brush and comb in my |
hand, and offered them to her, at the same
ims asking her if she wanted them, and |
Jaw her AS plainly as l ever saw woman
II my life. One OF the gentlemen
sked me who | was trying to give the
rticles to- when she vanished and felt
ather foolish
Il gave no explanation to them, and left
he train in no very good humor Coming
o the hotel here, l walked to the counter
o register and waited for a lady who was
writing her name to get through. As she
aid down the pen she looked at me. and |
aw the same woman ! had seen twice on
he car. L almost dropped in my tracks
s she disappeared and | found !
he clerk turning the register toward
ne and handing me a pen. No woman
lad been there or registered. apparently,
Though | can swear l saw her write her
anne and az down the pen
II am not Ill, nor have l been. I enjoy
he best of health and n good digestion
Y lille this seems strange to you, no doubt,
know clearly, in my own mind. that
aw the woman the three times named,
nd would give something TO be able to
count for it. can but feel that it por-
ends some happening in my life, either
God or bad.