The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-09-04
DREAM WAS TRUE
a LADY IN ATLANTA DREAMED
SHE SAW RELATIVES

Away Killed in Auto Accident and
It Proved 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 fash 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 pginaed at Seated, WASH,
showing that it 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 strange coinci-
dence, to be the sister of Mrs. James
Colvin, who also met death in the
smash-up.
The most wonderful feature Of the
tragedy is the fact that while the
telegraph operators mixed the names
and while the ..ires were carrying
an erroneous statement across the
continent, another message, laden
with details of the same tragedy,
was abroad on the winds, sped q
600 miles through space, without
wires, without operators, and flew,
straight and true, to the brain of
sleeping Atlanta woman.
Mrs. A. E. M. Boyton, 124 Forrest
avenue, q relative of the Cplvtn
family, sprang from her bed in ter
ror, not three minutes after the &C
cident actually occurred, and de-
scribed the whole scene co 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 killedt 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:
'HEI was sleeping soundly when /
seemed to be aroused, almost awak-
ened, and found myself among
strange people. in unfamiliar sur
pie who had been killed prevented
roundings. 1t was dark, and heavy
rain was falling A long curved road
with ratings at it's side wound out
of sight in the gloom, frightened
here and there by hazy arc lights
shining through the mist. 1t SEEM
ed that q loud crash and the sound
| of women's screams had reused me,
reused me too late to see what caus-
ed the noise, and as soon 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.
az 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
/ rushed in, anxious to be OF assis-
lance also, but the crowd was so
dense I could not penetrate it, and
couldn't even see the faces Of the
victims of the accident. tried des-
perately to reach them, and told the
people who were holding me back
that they were my own 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 l awoke with the perspira'
ton streaming from my body and
the kJ"ror of the scene driving me
almort frantic.
II knew something awful had nap
pened to some Of my kinsfolks, but l
didn't know who or where, because
I had never been permitted to see
the faces"
Inasmuch as the other details Of
her dream were confirmed by the
newspaper reports, it never occurred
10 Mrs. Boynton to doubt that the
names were also correct.
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