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DREAM WAS TRUE
A LADY IN ATLANTA DREAMED
SHE SAW RELATIVES
Who Were Two Thousand Miles
Away Killed in Auto Accident and
1t Proved True.

IL frOSeu True
Once again the busy, mechanical
world, intricate in material mechan-
ism and occupied with physical en-
vironment, Is forced to acknowledge
that silent, subtle factor that comes
like a flash and fees like the mist
Clairvoyance. The following story
is published by the Atlanta Journal:
Relatives of the Ralph Colvin fam
lily have received copies Of news
papers printed at Seated, Wash,
showing that 1t was not little Miss
Agnes Colvin, of Atlanta, who whas
killed In the terrible auto accident
Thursday, August 10, at Dead
Mans Curve" near Seattle, but a
young women named Agnes Cowan,
who happened, by a strange coinci-
dence, to be the sister of Mrs. James
Colyin, who also met death in the
smash-up.
Mrs. A. E. M. Boyton. 124 Forrest
avenue, q relative of the Cblvtn
family, sprang from her bed in ter
ror, not three minutes after the &C
cident actually occurred, and de-
scribed the whole scene to her as
founded husband. The fact that, she
had not been permitted, in her
dream, to see the faces Of the peo-
pie who had been killed. prevented
her from being able to tell who we're
the victims; she simply declared that
they were her relatives, and when
the telegraph dispatches were print
| ed in Atlanta papers next day, she
took for granted that the names
were correct.
Mrs. Boyton described her tele-
| graphic vision in the following vivid
words:
81 was sleeping soundly when I
seemed to be aroused, almost awak-
ened, and found myself among
strange people, in unfamiliar sur
pie who had been killed prevented
roundings. It was dark, and a heavy
rain was falling. A long curved road
with ratings at its side wound out
of sight In the gloom, frightened
here and there by hazy arc lights
shining through the mist. 1t SEEM
ed that a loud crash and the sound
of women's creams had reused me,
reused me too late to see what aus
ed the noise, and as Don as my eyes
began to get accustomed to the
scene, I saw a great, surging crowd
In the road, mostly men In black
waterproofs. There were ambulance
es and in the middle of the crowd
were three or four people lying on
the ground.
II knew instantly that they had
been injured and that they were my
loved ones.
People were crowding around
them, trying to lend them aid, and
I rushed in, anxious to be OF assis-
lance also, but the crowd was 80
| dense I could not penetrate 1t, and
couldn't even see the faces Of the
victims of the accident. I tried des-
perately to reach them, and told the
people who were holding me back
that they were my W flesh and
blood, but l never got close enough
to see their faces, and by and by
some one told it was no use to stay
any longer because they were dead.
"Then I awoke with the perspira-
ton streaming from my body and
tho hJ-ror Of the scene driving me
almort frantic.
81 knew something awful had nap
pened to some Of my kinsfolks, but l
| didn't know who or where, because
1 had never been permitted to sea
me faces"
Inasmuch as the other details OF
her dream were confirmed by the
newspaper reports, 1t never occurred
10 Mrs. Boynton to doubt that tho
names we're also correct.