The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-06-10
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Rcacue of an Emigran, Party from Star
walton Through Vision.

hcHN0e OF au Immigrant rarity from star
walton Through Nisinn.
Carson Valley pass w;rt at the
period of Captain Young's remark
able dream. an exceedingly wild and
deSolate place, and often rendered
impossible by drifts of snow.
Captain Youngs home was more
than 1870 miles from this pass and he
had not had any reason to think or
speak of it ON the night when he re-
tired to bed to dream of it.
The first part of the dream came
to him soon after he went to sleep.
He saw a great white rock cliff rising
perpendicular many feet.
Snow. deep and trackless. all about
It, and in the snow a party of emf
grants, who seemed To be trying TO
build fire with the bare branches
which they had cut from the trees.
He saw that they failed in this and
heard words of despair ard saw a
woman burst into tears.
He remarked the faces of certain
men, and they We're as indelihly en-
g1aved on his memory az though he
had actually met the living persons,
One of them turned To him and said
Help us, for Gods sakem
As he was about to answer be
awoke
The dream troubled him Heawoke
his wife and told her of it. She beg
ged him to try to search for some
cause among the incidents of the past
day and he made the effort, hut, ex-
cept that he had noticed II slight fall
of snow, there was nothing To be re-
membered
However, they decided that it was
this snowfall. talked little while
and slept again,
Once more Captain Young only
slept TO dream. Again he saw the
white cliff. the mountain pass yelled
in white snow. the emig1ant wagons
the women and children. the men
whose faces he had seen in his first
dream, and again the man who had
mplore,l his aid before turned to him
with the same words
Help us. for Gods sake
This time he answered.
Il will help you, and before he
awoke he felt the grasp of the mans
hand upon his This time he aroused
his wife 10y cold shudler.
III Is fearful. he said. lit is like
reality" and then he told her of the
different expressions upon the vari-
Gus faces how one man was pale
one retl. how one had frozen his fin
gers, how one of the women was like
a statue of despair cut from white
marble, how one man hid his face
and groaned
r His wife. alarmed for his sanity,
arose and gave him some sedative.
, He slept again. and at this time. as il
seemed to all observers, very sOundly.
However. when actually awake, he
declared that he had once more been
dreaming He saw the same faces
he had seen before, and the man who
nad appealed to him for help now re-
preached him. saying
You promised to help us, hut we
shall all stal've to death before you
will come to us. We are in the Car
son Valley pass.
Captain Young was deeply i'm
pressed by tins dream and could think
of nothing else. Finally he declared
that he believed himself called upon
to 90 to Carson Valley pass at once.
His family We're terrified His neigh
bOrS laughed at him.
1t is no brief journey, but ! have
no account of it except that the snow
storm met them and that after some
wandering they reached the pass.
There. situated exactly as the cap
tain had seen them in his dream
were the emigrants They had ne
, longer Il mouthful to eat The cold
was bitter and several of them Were
} already dead However. the rasCuers
had the happiness Of saving the no
mainder and bringing them bach
with them in due time Captain
Young declared that he had seen the
faces before and almost expected the
: man whose hand he had g1aspad K
recognize him BOSTON Globe
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