The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-17
ANDREE'S FATE IS TOLD
SCIENTISTS READ WITH INTEREST A
PARIS CLAIRvoYANT,s STORY.
Trip Partly Successful. After which
He Was Driven to Wild Regions I'm
America, Where He Landed.
New York Herald.

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New York Herald.
Occulists in Paris are much interested in
certain predictions which were recently
made by a elairvoyant in regard 10 Andree
and his balloon trip. 1t was generally sup
posed that Mile. Couedon. whose alleged
ability to fortell events has aroused such
widespread comment. would utter some
startling prophesies about the aeronaut,
but up to date not a word has come from
her. Her friends claim that she has been
too busy prophesying about President
Faure's intended journey 10 Russia TO think
of anything else. Finding that she could
rot aid them. certain members of the Psy-
chical Society of Paris appealed for coun-
sci TO a clairvoyant who is also SOM
nambulist They went to her first last
year and said: Since you pretend to be-
prophecies here is a good opportunity 10
display your powers. Andree is preparing
to start on an expedition to the north pole.
Tell us when will he start, and thus we
will know whether you are a true seer or
not" Month after month they asked her
the same question. and each time her reply
was Il do not see the balloon start"
Naturally she could not for the balloon
DIG not start in 1896
This year the balloon started at 2:SO
O'Clock on Sunday, july II, and news there
OF was received in Paris by dispatch at
~ clock on the evening OF Friday July
10. On Monday, July II, one of the mem
bers OF the Fsychical Society announced
that he had received a letter from the
sleep walker in which she announced that
on sunday afternoon she had clearly seen
Andree start for the north pole. and had
heard the enthusiastic shouts which greet
ca the departure OF the balloon. Here is
her extraordinary letter: II have had a
strange vision, lor on Sunday saw Andree
start In his balloon, and on the following
FFluay night, or rather Saturday morning,
L saw that the aerOnautS had passed over
many precipices and that the wind had
momentarily forced them to take an OPP
Poslte dlrection-l mean toward the south
me air ship went around as though on a
pivot, ana the travellers were not aware
OIL II, SO rapid was the movement During
THESE Gays which separate me from the
waking vision in which / found myself on
Sunday the thought has come TO me that it
was impossible TOR them to obtain a clear
view or the pole, or even to traverse it.
for | see that they have been compelled
to so in a roundabout direction; aye / see
them moving over caves of huge eXcava-
tons; see that they are unable to APP
proach land or even to slacken speed. and
that meanwhile they hang by the guide
rope, thelr main object now being to eX-
plore the soil, II one can term soil those
Vestiges of land or rocks which in the
nelghborhood of the pole seem white of
color, as though calcined, and resemble the
quays Of river or, rather gigantic cliffs.
In this vision ! see them as though
they had landed but without having exact
ly reached the pole. cannot tell the exact
moment of their landing. Perhaps it was
FRIDAY night or perhaps Saturday morn
ing. What / see clearly is that one of the
travellers has a slight confusion on his right
siGe-almost on his back"
With the exception OF this tri1ing acct
dent the somnambulist assures us that no
casualty has befallen the travellers. and aft
ef TINS good news she proceeds to give Is
a detailed description of the place where the
landing was effected. A glowing description
II is, but the country described is hardly
what one would expect to find in the polar
4 see luxuriant woods" she writes. land
a lovely vegetation; | see Andree and his
companions alone. and for the moment they
are separated from one another l see as it
were, a mass of debris, and later ! see it
all cleared away The aeronauts have land
ed in wooded plain at the end of which
rises HILL planted with wood shrubs and
great grasses The wood, however, domi-
mates everything. And beside the travellers
can see the balloon with all the gas dis
The soil is kindly and it is well that
the adventures have landed here, for if
they had landed on the other side of this
derers."
Robbers at the north pole What will
arctic explorers say TO this? Unquestiona-
bly, this is the strangest statement in this
very Strange story
The Travellers" continues the clairvoy-
ant, remain there for some time in order
to discover exactly where they are. Then
suddenly | see them in curious vision,
winch l. cannot well explain. L see them
stretched on the grass as though asleep,
and they are separated one from the other.
l see only one man, who is less fatigued
than the others. He goes around trying to
find some one who will help him to place
the balloon in order. This man seems to me
to be without clothing. He goes along a
path which runs beside the bank of a river
and which is close to a deep revine. Final
~ he meets some one VINO speaks English"
The clairvoyand now tells us that she dis
tinctly the words Rome" and Italy,
but she does not attempt TO explain this
part of her vision. Instead she goes on 10
tell us OF the aeronauts, who, it seems, have
been miraculously saved from death.
Il see them in America" she says, "or
very near America, at a little distance from
some great city. They are about to sojourn
in a large city, where a splendid reception
will be given in their honor. / see the word
Texas, but do net see the name of the
large city. l cannot explain why / see only
one Of the aeronauts; it Is to him that all my
attention is directed. / also very clearly
the word philadelphia A little later I see
the Adventures in Paris, the season being
now autumn or winter. At no time, how
ever, can L see more than one member of
the party: all the others seem to be hidden
from me- Why is this?'
So ends this very curious letter. Whether
there is any truth in il not the future
alone can tell The most notable point in it
is the inability of the sleep walker TO see
more than one adVenturer She certainly
seems to think that all the members of the
party have been saved, and yet phrase
here and there indicates that she is not pos
tive on this point. 1t need hardly be Said
that her utterances have been read with
great interest by the members of the Psy-
chical Society and that many persons are
anxiously waiting to learn to what extent
if any, her predictions will prove true.
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