Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-03
TRAGEDY SEEN IN VISION
Fell I'm n Faint the Moment Fatal
Bullet struck Father Miles
Away.

To see In a vision her father shot dead
in battle, hundreds of miles from where
she was and then to learn that his death
had occurred precisely as she had witnessed
it with her minds eye, was the extraor-
binary experience of Mrs. Mary King New
hall, a well known and socially prominent
woman, who died at her home in Galena,
Ill. the day after Christmas
Mrs. Newhall died after years of acute
suffering of a mslady affecting the heart
which was caused by the great nervous
shock to which the vision subjected her.
Mrs. Newhalls maiden name was Mary
King. She was born in Cincinnati. Her
father was Captain Edward A. King of
the regular army and her mother was
Sarah NJ. King
When the civil war broke out Captain
King went to the front. He was a brave
and gallant young soldier and won dis
tinction in the service of the union in the
struggle between the north and the south
His wife and children were living in
Ohio in the war time. From Cincinnati
they went to Dayton, in that state, where
they resided for many years. Letters came
to them frequently from the husband and
father. telling them Of his daily doings on
field and in camp. The letters always were
full of hope and good cheer but they did
not serve to dispel the cloud that hung
over the home wherein his loved ones
waited with heavy aching, anxious hearts
for his return from the cruel war
Mary King was singularly bright, win
some, sensitive girl. and between her and
the soldier-father there existed the strong
est, tenderest ties of affection. The daugh-
ter was passonately fond of her father.
cherishing for him a deeper. warmer love
,ha .kaNr
fathers, and the dangers TO which he was
exposed were source OF constant grief
and fearful anxiety to her For her there
was no peace of mind. nor could be any
so long as the war should continue. Every
day was to her a day Of gloomy foreboding.
Every night was a night of brooding.
anxious unrest. II was feared that she
would suffer a complete nervous collapse
as a result of the acute mental strain to
which she was subjected.
One day, after restless, sleepless night,
she was at her home with other members
| of the family, when she suddenly sprang
| from her chair. pale and trembling. and
| cried
Look, look! My father has been
! killed."
With these words she fell unconscious to
! the floor. She was picked up and carried
] 10 ner Ded ana physician Was SUM
moned. When she was restored to con-
| sciousness she said that her father was
| dead and described infinitely the circum-
! stances of his death while in battle.
| She was told that her father was not
dead, that she had been i'll and had mag
! ined that he had been killed. Every pos
! sible effort was made by members OF the
! family and her physician to quiet her fears,
! TO dispel the delusion from which she APP
| peared to be suffering But she chung
! tenaciously To the belief that her father
| was dead-that he had met his death pre-
| cisely as she had witnessed ii in her vision.
| Within few hours the family received
| word that Captain King was dead.
| A few days later a letter came TO the
| grief-stricken wife telling her when and
how her husband had met his death. He
| had been shot dead at the moment his
| daughter. pale and trembling. had sprung
/ from her chair and cried: Look. look
My father has been killed. And he had
met his death precisely his daughter
| had witnessed il in her vision and later
! described IL to her mother and her physi-
, clan
| The war, with it's heart-breaking TRACE
| dies, its blood and its tears, finally came
| TO a close But Mary King never com
| pletely recovered from the cruel hurt Il
had given her. Time softened her grief
as il softens all grief. but the nervous
shock TO which she had been subjected By