Year: 1877

The Belleview (Ohio) Ncws gives n


singular account Of the escape Of well


known citizen of that section from two


terrible railroad disasters. The narra-


tive is MS follows: Mr.. Feese is well


known over this whole section of coum-


try. He passed through II similar Gu


lamity few years ago, losing his entire


family, wife and two children. At that


time they had been on visit to friends


in Pennsylvania, and took tho cars at


Erie on their way home. He said then n


strange disinclination to go seized him,


that his mind was weighed down with an


impression of some impending calamity


He thought the impulse without reason
and foolish, so would not heed or even
speak of it. He had waking dream,


not long before, wherein he saw his wife
and children lying in cotfins in church,
as distinct and vivid as though real. yet
he was wide awake. This was assigned
as n reason for his feelings, and the
whole thing seemed too unreasonable for
IL sensible person to notice While rid
ing along, with his little boy asleep in
his lap, he felt IL sudden jerk and jar,
and Immediately found himself under
water, with his head fastened so he could
not move it. The whole affair flashed
through his mind, and there, under nine
feet of water, II lifetime of thought was
experienced in an instant. To open his
mouth was to fill it with water-breathe
he must or perish-life was worth the
effort, and, making one more almost Sill
perh,lman struggle, his head was freed.
Then scizing something above him he
found n window and crawled out and up,
just as man was passing with lantern
on log across the stream partly weigh
ed down by the wreck. The man ex-
claimed on seeing him: "Great God,
did you get out of there?' Totally I'M
nerved, he could do or say nothing; his
presentiment had become terrible
reality. A bridge had given away IS
their train was passing, and the Car they
were in had turned over and the one
next behind had fallen on top of it, His
poor wife was fastened down with
beam, SO that her body could not be re-
covered until the wreck had been par
TALLY removed The bodies of his chill
dren were found outside the car but near
together, appearing as if had some one
been there to aid them as they came near
the surface they might have been saved.
At the funeral every feature of his wax
ing dream was there just as he had seen
it days before; and he then and there re-
solved that if ever the subject of such
impressions again he should regard them
at any sacrifice. In the meantime Mr..
Feese had married again. Taking his
family, he went last fall to visit the Cen
tennial and Pennsylvania friends. He
had determined to get home on Satur-
day, December 80, and informed his
friends here to that effect. To do 20
they must take No. into Cleveland
Friday night. BY making proper appli-
cation he could get n pass over the roal,
and three several times he attempted to
write for it, and as often strange i'm
pulse seized him that he had better not.
AS the time approached to go the same
presentiment came over him as he felt
before; hence, in accordance with his
nothing could have persuaded
him to come that way. They therefore
started one day earlier and came around
by Wheeling, at much greater outlay
of time and money. When at Wheeling
he read an account of the awful fate he
had escaped by not returning on the Lake
Shore road.