Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-07-18
MYSTERY OF DREAMS
Whence Come the Warning Wis.,
itors We See In Sleep?
TWO VERY PULLING CASES.

Tidings OF Disaster at ''e S'S
Tin,e and One Where a Child Saw
Her Father Saved In a Shipwreck.
Ont Of $40 dreams of very striking
kind investigated by one of the lead
ing psychic research societies no FEWER
than seventy-nine related to death'
and perhaps the rarest of all these
dreams is the case where TWO persons
dreamed the same thing on the same |
night. and the episode came true. Ihis
striking instance is reported by inc
Rev. r. b. Ellington:
"A woman parishloner. of mine" he
savs. "whose husband was hsner-
man ut that time on the sea, dreamed
one night in terribly vivid fashion that
his little craft had been cut In TWO by
the towering steel bows of great
liner Her eldest son was with the
husband. and as she woke she screamed
ont oh. save my boy, my boy! ms
was remarkable enough, considering
the sequel. but almost at the very mo
ment the poor woman was In her ois-
tress, vet still asleep, another son was
pounding at her door, half asleep ana
half awake, and crying, oh, MOTHER
whore IS fatherY The terrified woman
now rose and let the boy In. lie was
CRYING. He told her he had distinctly
heard his fathers heavy tread coming
nm the stairs and his ponderous KICK
with sea boots against the door, as had
been his manner when returning aD-
ruptly from a long cruise. Next morn
ing the alarmed mother and wife tod
MI tbe neIghbors, and before the day
was ont the dreadful news came that
every detail Of her dream was true.
The little trawling lugger had been run
into by a cOastlng liner, nearly cut ID
two and sunk with all hands, mclud-
! ing her husband and SON."
Premonitory dreams occupy large
part Of the psychological records, ana
the following case is very puzzling
one: A Mrs. Spruit lived at Balmain'
one of the suburbs Of Sydney, Austria
La. Her husband was a sea captain
in command of the Atacama, wooden
shin of 1900 tons, which had arrived IN
| Sydney in q leaking state and was
picked up cheap by a firm known as
| Cowlishaw Bros. for $4,000. Twice as
much was spent In repairs, and then
the Atacama was sent up the coast
with a cargo Of coal. She delivered
this and next set out for San Diego.
But when 500 miles out from sgd
ney she sprang leak, and Captain
Spruit decided to put back. In spite
Of the pumps the water gained, and
soon there was a depth of eleven feet
in the hold. Spruit now resolved to
I abandon the ship and launch the three
boats. The captain himself, with one
seaman, the steward boatswain and
m apprentice, was in the twenty-four
foot lifeboat, while the rest or the
crew. twelve In all, were in the other
two boats. Heavy seas were running,
and the boats were nearly swamped.
AS Spruit could not swim, he was
J nearly drowned. Some Of his men
| were lOSL Hell SlludliOh wac
} fearful in boats half filed with water
a and exposed to fierce gale 400 miles
, from land. Again and again was
S Spruit washed out, but at last his boa
e was picked up when its occupants were
G in the last stages Of exhaustion from
d fatigue. exposure and lack Of food. A
p reporter Of the Sydney Morning Her
5 aid called to interview the captain ant
% found him barefooted, with terribly
# swollen legs, covered with severe cut
e and bruises.
al Now consider Mrs Spruits report t
6 the PsychicaI Research society, which
IS Is most remarkable.
, Last Thursday week." she writes
q Eat 3 o'clock in the morning my thir
9 teen ear-old daughter Lily came int
n my bedroom and woke me by a tap oil
- my forehead. oh, mamma she crie'
=, In a breathess whisper, I'm so fright
- cnedv | tried to soothe her, but sh
!, only covered her face with her hand
u and whispered tremblingy: oh, look
= Ny papa's ship is all wrecked. Papa
come home all in rags, with his fee
" and legs cut, and see two or three o
his men drowned out Of the boat
u 81 told Lily sternly 1t was all nor
sense.
d at isn'tp she said passionately
= I've seen it in my dream, and kno'
. it's all truep
J" "But coaxed her off to bed. Tn
% girl kept worrying about 1t until tn
3 next Sunday. A week after her dreaI
~ nv husband returned, and Lily foun
Y me crying when she came in frol
- school.
10 "Oh, mamma she cried sharply, !
~ the Atacama wreckedT
u 81 told her evasiyely her papa ha
% come home.
I'D "She was not to be denied, howeve
ID and asked, with strange persistenc
ne Are papa's legs cutT
Ell IT said they were.
D. "And the very first thing she said
her father was: why, you didn't hay
those clothes on when saw you! III
ones you had on were all torn In Il
v shipwreck.'"
In Lily Spruit herself furnished r
ar port to the Psychical Research societ
he She said she woke in terrible frigh
as having seen every microscopic detail
We the shipwreck and its sequel. She sa
On her father get into the big boat al
40 keep close to his ship for some tim
ID She watched his boat capsize and Il
= boy Allen drown. What woke her, 81
K said, was the bowling Of the VIII
o. about the wreck, and the last she sa
was the other men pulling her faith
back into the waterlogged boat.-W
liam T. FITZGERALD in New York Tri
id une.