The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-06-26
MARX TNA|N'S DREAM
It Was So Vivid He Thought II
Was Real After He Awoke.
THEN CAME THE SAD SEQUEL"

The Event ForeshaooWeo III e''e 9'"Se
I.- Vision Came 70 Pass With Pain
frI Exactitude Only Few Weeks
After In a Most Distressing Manner.
One morning when I awoke I had
been dreaming, and the dream was so
vivid, so like reality, that 1t deceived
me, and thought it was real. In the
dream had seen Henry CAfr. Clemens
younger brother) corpse. he lay IN
metallic burial case. He was dressed
in suit of my clothing, and on his
breast lay q great bouquet of flowers,
mainly white roses, with q red rose ID
the center. The casket stood upon j,
couple Of chairs dressed and moved
toward the door, thinking I would go
in there and look at it, but I changed
my mind I thought I could not get
bear to meet my mother. I thought l
would wait awhile and make some
preparation for that ordeal.
The house was in Locust street,
little above Thirteenth, and l walked
to Fourteenth and to the middle OF the
block beyond before it suddenly Hasn-
ed upon me that there was nothing
real about this-it was only q dream.
l can still feel something Of the CRATE
full upheaval Of JOY Of that moment,
and l can also still feel the remnant
Of doubt, the suspicion that maybe it
was real, after all. returned to the
house almost on a run, few up the
stairs two OF three steps at a jump
and rushed into that sitting room and
was made glad again, for there was no
caSket there.
We made the usual eventless trip to
New Orleans-no, it was not eTentlesS,
for it was on the way down that had
the fight with Mr.. Brown WHICH re-
suited in his requiring that I be left
ashore at New Orleans In New Or
leans always had job. 1t was my
privilege to watch the freight piles
from in the evening until Z in the
morning and get 50 for it. It was
three night Job and occurred every
thirty-fye days. Henry always Joined
my watch about 9 in the evening.
when his own duties were ended, and
we often walked my rounds and chat
ted together until midnight
This time we were to part, and so
the night before the boat sailed gave
Henry some advice. said: In case
Of disaster to the boat don't lose your
head. Leave that unwisdom to the
passengers; they are competent; they'll
attend to it. But you rush for the hur-
ricane deck and aStern to one Of the
Hfeboats laShed aft the wheel house
and obey the mates orders. Thus you
will be useful. When the boat is
launched give such help us you can
in getting the women and children into
it and be sure you don't try to get into
it yourself It is summer weather, the
river is only q mile wide. as rule.
and you can swim that without any
trouble
Two or three days afterward the
boats boilers exploded at Ship island,
below Memphis, early one morning,
and what happened afterward I have
already told in ..Old Times on the Mis-
sissippi" AS related there, followed
the Pennsylvania about Il day later on
another boat, and we began to get
news Of the disaster at every port We,
touched, and so by the time we reach
ed Memphis we knew all about it.
found Henry stretched upon q mat
tress on the floor Of 9 great building'
along with thirty or forty other scald-
ed and wounded persons and was
promptly informed by some indiscreet
person that he had inhaled steam, that
his body was badly scalded and that
he would live but little while; also
was told that the physicians and
nurses were giving their whole atten-
ton to persons who had chance of
being saved. They were short handed
IN the matter of physicians and nurses.
and Henry and such others as were
considered to be fatally hurt were re-
ceSins only such attention as could
be spared from time to time from the
more urgent cases.
But DR.. Peyton, a fine and large
hearted old physician Of great repu-
tation in the community, gave me his
sympathy and took vigorous hold or
the case, and in about a week be had
brought Henry around. DR.. Peyton
never committed himself with prog
nostications which might not mater1-
al;ze, but at II O'Clock one night he
told me that Henry was out Of danger
and would get well. Then he said:
AT midnight these poor fellows lying
here and there all over this place will
begin to mourn and mutter and lament
and make outcries, and if this conmo-
ton should disturb Henry it will be
bad for hin. Therefore ask the physf-
sian on watch to give him an eighth
Of q grain of morphine, but this is not
to be done unless Henry shall show
signs that ne is being disturbed"
Oh, we'll, never mind the rest OF It.
The physicians on watch were young
fellows, hardly out Of the medical co..
lege, and they made mistake. They
had no way OF measuring the eighth OF
q grain OF morphine, so they guessed at
it and gave him vast quantity heap
ed on. the end o. a knife blade, and the
fatal effects were soon apparent. !
think he died about dawn. don't re
member as to that. he was carried
to the dead room, and went away for
awhile to citizens house and slept
of some Of my accumulated fatigue,
and meantime something was happen
ing.
The cofhns provided for the dead
were of unpainted white pine, but IN
this instance some Of the ladies Of
Memphis had made up a fund OF 500
and bought a met.lMc case, and when