The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-30
FoREsHADowED BY DREAMS.
Disasters That Have Been Indicated
During Sleep.
Q Philadelnhia Times.

dllBt anu llltAllllNhbiC 40 u iii'S
seem, 1t Is an indisputable fact thai
dreams do foreshadow or denote disas-
ters, and such cases are of much more
frequent occurrence than is generally
supposed
An extraordinary instance was
brought to light at an inquest held at
Birmingham, England, four years ago,
on the body of a girl who was found
drowned in a canal near Spring HILL
In that town. She had been away from
home on a visit to her aunt. and as she
did not return her absence was re-
ported to the police.
The night after hearing of the girls
disappearance the aunt dreamed that
she was on the bank of tte canal re-
ferred to, and that while passing along
she rippled the water with her UNI
brella On which the buiy Nf her niece
| at once rose to the surface. Next
morning she visited the spot that had
figured in the dream, and finding the
police dragging another portion of the
canal, she suggested that they should
! try the part she Lad dreamed off,, This
| they at once did, with the startling re-
| suit that the bod was Immediately
| brought to the surface
The sensational D.'6YtGs affair was
| last year productive of Il similar dream
! during NJ. Zolas pre3pn". in London.
! One night Miss Vizetelly, daughter of
/ the well-known publisher, whose guest
! the famous French writer was at the
| time dreamed that she was in the fort
ress that formed the prison Of Henry,
! one of the notorious characters in the
affair.
! ~ II. l..
a pool of blood, the spectacle somehow
| seeming to make her feel glad. Next
| morning she related her dream to her
| fathers guest, and a short time after
wards newspapers were brought in an
nouncing the suicide Of Henry 1t then
transpired that while the lady was
deraming of it the rash act was ac-
| tually being committed.
Not long since there was fatal shaft
accident at Il coliery at Grisley, Derby
shire, England. j happened on a
Monday, and the night before a collier
employ ~ in the pit where the disaster
took place had a dream In this he
was Mortified to see the cage in which
the miners descended to their work
dash down from the top to the bot ON,
| killing all lie men.
The dream made him feel quite i'll,
and, waking his wife, he related it TO
her. She persuaded him not to go to
his work in the morning and very for
tunately, too. for an accident did hap
pen, and to the very cage by which he
would have gone down the shaft.
There was less satisfactory sequel
to a somewhat similar dream which
came to light at the inquest on the
three men killed a short time ago
by fall OF stone in the Kelloe pit.
One of the victims, named Dawson,
lived with his mother, who the night
before the accident dreamed that she
saw her son brought home lifclcss. She
implored him not to go to work next
day. hut he lightly replied that if he
had TO be killed it might as well be
that day as any other And that day
it was, as foreshadowed in his wild
owed mothers dream.
Between four and five years ago a
Benhar miner. of the name OF McF'ar-
lane, disappeared from his home, al
efforts to trace him proving fruitless
day or two afterwards a brother
in-law of the missing man fell asleel
and dreamed that he saw his lost
relative at a certain part of the AL
mond Water, several miles away.
On learning this the searchers pro.
Ceedcd to the spot and soon found foot,
prints in the snow, following which
they came upon the body of the mar
standing upright in the water, which
was frozen all round him. The dream
that denoted this disaster caused quite
a sensation in the neighhorhood.
Imagine a woman dreaming that she
was going to be murdered, and thu
manner in which the foul deed was t
be done! Such was the experience o.
Mrs. Eggleston, of Antelope Valley
Mono county, California, whose dream
: was fulfilled 20 the letter a few day!
later.
A week or so before the event tool
r place she told several neighbOrs sh
had dreamed that, as she WAS abOu
to open the oven door in her kitChel
= one morning, man named Watkins
: suddenly appeared with knife in hi
hand and stabbed her several times
The neighhors We're rather per
turbed at this, and when the poo
: woman was found dead IN her house
8 wounded in the manner indicated,
r short time afterwards. her dream wa
= brought back vividly to their minds
/ The man who had figured in it as tn
| assassin was at once apprehended an
o his guilt was proved W. to the hilt.
e A case arose, too, out of the recen
= holiday season. A young man, resi-
g dent of Kings Lynn was browne,
Z while bathing at Scarborough, wher
3 he was spending his vacation. Two o
= three nights before his sister at hom
had a dream in which she saw hin
= drowning, and so real did it seem tha
4 she woke up with loud cries. II af
II fected her so much that next day sh
o wrote to her brother entrcatine hin
II To exercise the greatest care.
!, You need not tell mel know he i
: drowned was the remark with whic
II she astonished The police when the
/, went to app, ise her of the sad occur
a renee.
Some eighteen months since new
reached New York Of a terrible dS IA
mite explosion which had taken plaC
in the Coney mine, near Skyl;omish,
. day or two before. II resulted in tn
= aclth Of two men, one of whom wa
e named Robinson At tho time of III
II accident the latter's yong wife wa
u asleep in bed at the house Of her pal
ents at kenton, several miles ava!
II Just at the moment ,hGt it took plaC
IL she had '0rst realistic dream,
which her husband was killed in a
e explosion at the mine.
J. Awakening in great agitation, sh
l. aroused her mother and related wha
y she had seen in her sleep. The old lad