The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11
:HEARSFROM ANDREE
,OLAIRV0YANT DECLARES he HAS
NOT REACHED THE POLE

and Deep Observation-Disclosures Pivot
Like TOpand Acts Otherwise Strange
" WhiIe the Fortune Teller Says tn
Down so They Can Explore the Soil
Other Fine Details.
New York; Aug 10.-Occulists in Pari!
Are much Interested in certain predic-
;t.ons which 'wsere recently made by q
:clairvoyant in regard TO Andree and his
,baIloon trip. 1t was generally supposed
stl1at Mile Col7edon, whose alleged aeil-
Ny to foretell events has aroused such
,yidespxead connment, would utter some
startling pnoph' estes about the aeronaut,
utb I'D To- date not a word has come
from her. Her friends claim that she
mas been 100 busy prophesying about
President Faure's intended journey to
Russia 20 think of anything else.
Finding that she could not aid them,
certain members of the Psychical So
cietv OF Paris appealed for counsel to a
c,airvoyant who 3 also a somnambulist.
They went to Tier first last year and
said: Since your pretend to be pro-
pnetess. here is a good opportunity 10
display your powers. Andree is prep4:-
Ing ID start on an expedition TO the
north pole Tell us when ne will start
and thus we will knew whether you are
a true seer or not" Month after month
.hev asked l1er the same question, and
eacn time her reply vas: Il do not see
NV 20
net. fer the balloon didi not start in 1896.
This year the balloon started at half
past two O'Clock on Sunday, July II, and
tie news thereof was received in Paris
.by dispatch ct ten o'clock on me even
ing of Friday, July 16. On Monday,
5ulv u one of the members Of the Psy-
chicdl Society announced THAT he had
Received a letter from the sleep walker
in which she had announced that on
Sunday afternoon she had clearly seen
An1ree start for the north pole. and had
1eard tne enthusiastic shnutS which
greeted the departure Of the balloon.
Here is her extraordinary letfer: II
have had a strange vision, for on Sun
day I saw Andree start in h Is balloon.
and on the following Friday might, or
rather Saturday morning, I saw the
aeronauts had passed over many preci-
pices and that the wind had Inotnen-
tarily forced them to take an opposite
drection-I mean towards the south.
Z The ship went around as though on
pivot, and the travellers were noTE2Ware
of it, so rapid was the movement Dur
sry these days which separate me from
the waking vision in which | found my
self on Sunday the thought hast come
10 me that t was impossible for them
TO OBTAIN a clear view of the p pie. or
even to traverse it. fer Isee that they I!
saave been compelled to go in round |
sGoou. direction; aye,.I see them moving |
over caves OF huge excavations; L see |
that they are unable ID approach land, !
or even TO slacken speed. and that mean |
while they hang on by the guide rope, |
their main object now being TO explore |
the soil, if one can term soil those yes |
rigcs of land or rocks which in the |
neiehboraood of the pole seem white Of |
color, as though calcined. and resemble |
thc ouay5 Of a river, or, rather, gigantic |
cliffs.
I'm this vision I see them as though |
they had landed. but without having eX- |
actly reached the pole. 1 cannot tell |
the exact moment Of their landing. Per-
maps it was Friday night, or perhaps
Saturday morning. What l see clearly
81 that one of the travellers has a slight
confusion On his right s:de-almost on
his back"
With the exception OF this trifling in
cident the somnambul:st assures us that
no Casualty has befallen the travellers,
ani after this good news she proceeds to
give US a detailed description CT the
place where the landing was effected.
"A glowing description il is. but the coun-
TRY described is hardly what one would
expect 10 find in polar regions.
~ see iuxuriant woods" she writes,
land a lovely vegetation: ] see Andree
anu his companions alone. and for the
moment they are separated from one an
other. / see, as 1t We're. mass OF de-
bris. and later I see II all cleared away.
The aeronaQts have landed in a wooded
plain. a: the end OF which rises a hill.
planted with wood. shrubs and great
grasses The wood. however. dominates
Everything. And beside the travellers 1
can see the balloon with all the gas dis
charged crom q
The soil is kindly. and il is We'll that
the Adventures have landed here. for.
y they had landed on the other side Of |
1his hiE. they would have become prey
TO plunderers."
Robbers a. the north pole. What will
Arctic explorers say to this? Unques-
ton ably this $ the strangest statement
in this very strange story
The travellers" continues the clair
voyant, remain there for some time in
order to discover exactly where they are.
Then suddenly I see them in a curious
vision, which 1 cannot well explain I
see them stretched IN The grass as
Though asleep. and they are separated.
one from the other
L see only one man, who is less IA
tigCed tlan he Others. He goer arc md
trying TO find some one who will haln
him TO place the balloon in order: this
nan seems 10 be without clothing. He {
goes along path. which runs beside
the hank % a river and which IS close
70 deep ravine. Finally ne meets some
ole WHO. speaks English
The clairvoyant now tells US that she s
distinctly saw the words Rome and :
Italy, but she does not attempt IN
explain this part Of her vision. Instea6
s,e goes on 10 tell US of the aeronau.s