Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-11-18
a VERY QUEER STORY.
The Mysterious Experiences of Nm En
grants Family in lnuitHs.

| ahe Mysterious Experiences of Nm Emi-
| grants Family iii Indiana.
! "A queer incident you want, eh!"
said Colonel Elbrook, of Denton. Ind.
according to the st. Louis GIobe-Demo-
crat. Something that will interest and
surprise readers. Here is one. Back in
1887 my father, who then lived near
Congdon, the old state capital of In
! diana, decided to sell out and move
farther north, because he liked northern
! Indiana better. He succeeded in sell
/ ing sixty acres of his land there, but
another sixty he could. not get rid Of
He placed it in the care of neghbor
| packed up bis necessary household utin-
| sis IN Il large wagon, and with
mother and the three young boys start
ed to drive about 200 miles north Two
| other farmers were of the party, alto
Scthcr having four wagons. Father had
been up to what is known as Silver
Lake, Ind, and had traded with some
| Indians for sixty acres of land. | won't
describe the Silver lake, or his farm, or
| to the three boys, Jake, George, Sev-
erius. | have heard my father tell It
like this: MY boys were fine lads;
Jake was IL years old, George was Z,
and Severus was ). They were strong,
healthy lads, but | felt six months be-
fore they died that they were going to
| die. L told my wife so. One evening
| before we left Corydon-about Il month
| before-I was splitting wood for the sup
no in,
and the nights were damp and misty
From the Wood-pile, near the kitchen
| door, you could look over Il field of
StumpS down into q swamp. | stopped
i'll my work as q man will do occasional
ly and looked out over the field. Down
in that swamp | saw three lights moving
about over the fog. / watched them for
Il minutes, and they seemed to be COM
ing toward me. | waited, and they
were pale, like alcohol burns, and about
the size of d medium candle fame
They hurried by through the field and
over the rail fence that we had around
the house. They passed within ten
feet of me and went out us they reached
The house. l pondercd over that and
told my wife of it, but she laughed it
away. I had almost forgotten the in
cident, when one night we were ON the
road north L saw three similar lights
will -wisps-come through a open
space near the road and disappear in the
woods beyond. A month afterwards, It
was the last Of June, 1897, / was sitting
outside the kitchen door grinding coffee
for supper with little iron hand mill.
1t was fairly still night, but anyhow l
saw those three lights again. They
came from a heavy patch of woods
about 200 feet from the door. / felt
just as | did that night while splitting
wood down in Corydon. They came |
passed into the woods beyond the house |
The oldest of my boys, Jake, took sick !
month afterward and died in three |
weeks. Then George got the fever and I
died, and little Severius followed last. /
They died about a month apart. 1t was
very queer, and people say pshaw when
I tell it, but / am sure those lights were
a TOKEN
my father was very broad man and
a prominent citizen. He wasn't much
On religion, but he was some on justice,
and well thought of. 1t may be nom
sense, but coming from him, it was GER
tainly a very queer story"