New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-09-13
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4 Story Showing the Remarkable swift
s ness ness With Which the Mind Works when
It Is Suppressed to BE Taking a Rest-ao
Long It Took to Do Ten Hours, work.
a few evenings since a number Of
newspaper men were in an Office await
ing the arrival of a gentleman who was
to call together. a meeting that they had
been directed to report for their resDec-
tive papers. ..=
A number Of topics was discussed,
and one Of these was dreams and the
extreme rapidity with which mental
operations are performed. A number Of
experiences were given, but the one that
attracted the most attention was that Of
Call representative, who narrated what
he had done in dream.
ttIt was" said he, ..in 1868 thai after
hard days work l reached home and
lost no time in retiring. CHANGING at
the clock as turned off the gas noticed
that it was just 16 minutes after mid
night.
"Shall l tell you at this point how long
l was dreaming or tell first what I did
in my dream? That you all may better
appreciate what was done, will defes
the matter until the end. Bear in mind
that what is to be told was all in thu.
dream. Seated in the old Office on Com.
merclal street, above Montgomery, l was
endeavoring to put into presentablc
shape the facts of q trial that had taken
place in the district court, when in cam.
E. A. Rockwell, who was the chief ed.
ltorial writer, and calling me by name
said: You had better get ready and e
to San Leandro. There's been a terri.
bic railroad accident. There's so or e.
people killed, and / don't know how
many injured. George E. Barnes, al
that time one of the proprietors and
managing editors. had overheard Rock
well, and in that quiet way of his sug
gested that no time be lost in reaching
Oakland, and there procuring a buggy
and pair of horses, to go to San Lean
dro or wherever the accident was.
Rushing down to the ferry landinu
at the corner of Pacific and Davis streets,
l reached there in time to find that tho
steamer for the other side of the bay had
just pulled cut, and that l would have.
to wait half an hour for the next boat
The delay was vexatious, and then when
the ferryboat did move eastward it SEEM
ed as if she would never make her land
ing, she seemed to be going so slowly
When the slip on the other side was
reached, there was some accident to the
local train, and there was not any pro-
spect Of starting for an hour or more.
There was not team of any kind at the
landing, so had to walk to Oakland.
"A desire to make up for the time lost
urged me ON, and think the time made
from the landing to Broadway and
Washington street has never been beaten
by man. Near the corner l went into
livery stable and ordered pair of horses
hitched Up. There was 4 delay there,
for the proprietor had his doubts about
the ability Of the team making the trip
out and back. Finally 1 started, and
the way those horses flew over the road
was a caution. When the scene of the
disaster, some distance beyond San Le-
andre, about IA miles from Oakland,
was reached, l proceeded at once to
gather the facts.
Down OH the notebook were penciled
the names Of 80 odd men, women and
children who had either been killed out
right OF burned to death in some of the
cars which had caught fire. Then fol-
lowed the names Of about 40 who had
been injured. a description of their in
juries and the opinions of the physicians
who were in attendance as to the posi-
BILE outcome i'll each case. Now, any of
you who have had experience in gather
ing information Of that kind can fully
appreciate that it was not child's play,
for the injured were in different places,
and it required time to get around to
them ALL - .....--...
''Then there was the obtaining of data
about the dead. A Number of them were
we'll known residents of this city, others
were from San Jose, SO it became neces-
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