The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1909-09-08
DREAM WAS TRUE
A LADY IN ATLANTA DREAMED
SHE SAW RELATIVES
Who Were Two Thousand Miles
Away Killed In Auto Accident and
Il Proved True.

Once again the busy. mechanical
world. Intricate In material necbac
Ism and occupied with physical en-
| Tironment. is forced to acknowledge
that silent. subtle facto. that comes
like a fash and Gees like the mist
Clairvoyance. The following story
Is published by the Atlanta Journal:
Relatives Of the Ralph Colv!n fam
lily have received copies OF news
r'ape.s printed at Seated. Wash.
showing :ha, II was not little Miss
Agnes Colvin. OF Atlanta. who whas
killed n the terrible auto acc!den;
Thursday. August 10. at Dead
Mans Curve near Seattle. but a
young women named Agnes Cowaa.
who happened. by strange coinci-
dence. to be the sister OF Mrs. James
Colvin. who also net death IN the
snash-up.
Mrs. A. e. N. Boyton. 124 Forrest
avenue. q relative OF the Colvin
family, sprang from her bed in ter
ro.. not three minutes after the ac-
e,dent actually occurred. snG Ge-
scr!bed the whole scene to her as
founded husband. The fact that she
had not beea permitted. in her
dream. to see the faces OF the oeo-
pie who had been k!lled( prevented
her from being able to tell who were
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:
"I was sleeping sorndly when I
seemed to be aroused. almos: awak-
ened. and found myself among
strange people. IN unfanilis7 sur
pie who had been killed prevented
Z. was dark. and heavy
rain was falling. A long curved road
with ratings at !ts side wound out
Of sight in the gloom. Frightened
here and there by hazy arc lights
through the mist. Il seem-
ed that load crash and the sound
Of women's screams had reused me.
loo 20
ed the noise. and as soon as my eyes
began to get accustomed to the
scene. I saw a great. surg!ns crowd
IN the road. mostly men IN black
There were ambulanc-
es and IN tho middle OF the crowd
were three or four people lying oc
the ground.
"I knew instantly that they had
been injured ead that they were my
loved ones.
People were crowdins around
them. trying to lend them aid. and
| ruskrd IL. anxious 70 be OF assis-
tance also. but the crowd was so
dense could not penetrate It. and
even see the faces Of the
victims Of the accident. I tried des-
oera,ely to reach them. and told the
people who were holding me back
that they were my own flesh and
blood. but I never got close enough
to see their faces. and by ane by
some one told Il was no use to stay
any longer because they were dead.
Then awoke with the persptra-
ton streaming from my body anc
the hJ-ror OF the scene driving NE
alrort frantic.
Il knew something awful had nap
pened to some OF my k!nsfolks. oct
didn't know who or where. because
I had never been permitted 20 see
.oe faces"
Inasmuch as the other details o:
:,e. dream were confirmed By the
newspaper reports. 1t never occurred
10 Mrs. Boynton to doubt that the
,,ne, were also correct.