The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-15

captain paid no attention to the child,
regarding the Whole thing as one Of her
Authorizations. Again and again she went
TO MIN, begging him to go and release
tne body. Nothing would put her off.
Shei declared that she could see the body
and would not rest until it was released
AT length there came day when the
waters of the staid Illinois We're fa~ above
their banks The wind was blowing a
hurricane. and when the occupants of a
oab1n-boat on the Tazewell side Of the
stream looked out of the window in y
saw what looked like a bag of some kind
floating in the water among the willows
in which their boat was fastened A has
ty examination convinced them that it
was human body, and. upon rowing tt
It's side, 1t proved to be the body of the
long-lost Mrs. Sommers. When the body
Was taken from the water the condition
| of the dress garments confirmed even to
the smallest detail the statements of the
child. She expressed no surpri.e thai
such is the case.
81 could see her." she said. "anG why
shouldn't 1 know who she was?"
She makes no secret of her strange
lower. nor is she averse to discussing it.
Asked If the visions came 10 her when
she was asleep she replied that some
times she was asleep and sometimes she
was awake. On the night that Mrs. Som
heard the clock strike just previous 10
the vision. She says that She does no.
seem to be In a trance, but that very
often has a peculiar sensation while see
ing the visions. This is not the first time
that she has come into prominence in 4
similar manner According to the stories
told by her parents. she has b~en fore
telling events since she was about fur
years old. On July 5, 1898, she was sit
in ha I'D Of bn5- faf 1nr'c
in this city, playing with her doll. wnea
she suddenly stopped in her play, gave a
little cry and ran to her mothers side.
"Oh, mamma. she cried, 81 have been
almost dead. / saw three men fall from
a high pipe, and they are dreadfuily in
| jured. One man is hanging to some
thing"
Asked where it was, she said the name
was something like Marshall, or Marsh
vile. She went on at length to scribe
the condition of the men, and said that
one of them would be brought home on
a stretcher.
Her parents paid no attention to her
talk, as she had often had similar Wis
ions before. But on July Z, 1888, when
working ON a tubular iron grain BIN be-
ing erected by Cody & Son, of this city,
at Marshalltown. To-. one of HE top sec
tionS of the bin fell, striking and carrying
down with it platform upon which four
men were at work. Three of the men
went down, but the fourth caught hold
OF a projecting timber and sustained him
self In midair The stretcher Incident
was verified, the man dying later from
his injuries Two years ago the coming
summer she was sitting in a small chair
In the yard. when again she sprang up
and ran to her mother as before.
She seemed to be in great perturba-
ton. being almost on the verge of tears.
Mamma" said She did You see that2''
''See what?' asked her mother.
"a little boy" she answered. "He was
trying to throw O board in the water and
lost his balance and fell In. 1 can see him
struggling in the water" Her mother
tried to comfort her. but she declared
that she could see him, and begged that
letter be written to his folks. The name,
she said was Radley. All that day and
the next she kept insisting that they write
letter to the Radleys, whom. she aver
red, lived at Chillicothe, Ill.
On the morning of the third day the
papers contained the account of the ac-
cidental drowning of little boy named
Radley, at Chillicothe. Ill.