Connecticut western news., 1911-05-25
MIR. BRACES DREAM
Wreck of Moody and SankeY Train
 Enacted in a Vision.


 As sequel, or follow-up story, to the reminiscence of the Tariffville disaster, printed in this column last week, the re- markable dream experienced by the late J. L. Bragg On the night the disaster occurred, is interesting at this time. MT. Bragg was then occupying the farm house on the Eddy farm, now oc- cupied by Charles Butcher, through which farm the tracks of the O. N. E. run. In his dream MT. Bragg witnessed the wrecking of the Moody and Sankey excursion train, which, in his vision, was manifestly the work of a train wreoker. The News at the time printed the story, as told by MT. Bragg, as follows |:
 He stood on an eminence looking to- ward the east, with large tract of level country before him, the larger part of the level region being at his left. While standing here he saw a man on the right hand of the railroad track and near to it. He had not seen the man until he
 
 sight at the place mentioned, to rise right up, as MT. B. expressed it, and crossed the track, and going few steps, began to run, and soon was out of his sight. MT. Bragg says his impression as he saw the man in his dream, was a track repairer who had been repairing the road.
 "Soon after this man disappeared from his view, he saw train coming and knew it in his dream as the Moody and Sankey excursion train returning from Hartford. and the instant the train reached the precise spot where he saw the man rise up on the track, (he didn't realize that there was more than one locomotive) the engine went down into an abyss, deep place, and a portion of the train went with it. He saw the re- maining rear part of the train standing on the track above, and after moment two or three persons were seen to get Tout of these cars, and immediately after there was a general rush, as he ex- pressed it.
 |" Instantly it came to him in his dream that the man he saw run away from the track had tampered with the rails and had wrecked that train, and he became so excited oyer it in his sleep that it aroused him. As he awoke he awakened his wife and asked her if the excursion train had passed, and being told that she had not heard it, told her he had seen in dream that train go off the track.
 " MT. Bragg tells us he was not in flueneed particularly with the idea that the train went down through bridge, and it was not located at Tariffville, but only and simply that it was coming from the Moody meetings, and was this excursion train. He says he saw the man who ran from the track plainly, and has vivid recollection of him now, and says he was man he never saw only in this dream, and could certainly identify him if he ever saw him. He knows the color and style of coat he wore, remembers distinctly the color of his hair, what he wore on his head, and his features he could not be mistaken about, and should he see them again would recognize them instantly.
 "Mr. B. says he shall not at present describe the man for the reason that it might lead to the. accusation of some in- nocent person, for he realizes fully that it was nothing but dream. He says it was not so much the fact that he saw this train wrecked, that threw him into such a frenzy of excitement and awak, ened him, but the fact that this man had wrecked that train.
 6 This is the dream as MT. Bragg saw it, and wbo will say it was not at least very remarkable ?"