Year: 1877

A REMARKABLE ESCAPE FROM DRATH-wHY


Mr. FEEsE DID NOT TAKE THE ILL-VATxD


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The Belleview tOhio) Neps gives q singular account
of the escape Of well known citizen OF that section
from two terrible railroad disasters. Tho "
rs follows:-


Mr. Fecse is we'll known over this whole section Of
country anu esteemed tor candor and integrity. Is
will be membered that Mr.. Feese passed through
family, vile and two children. Al that time they had
bcen visit to friends In PennsyvHna, ana TOOK
the cars ut Ere on their way home he said then -,
strange dsnclnation to go scized him, that his mnu
weighed down with an impression OF some inpond-
ing calamity lie thought the impulse without reason
and foolish, would not heed Or even speak OF IT,
Ho had waking dream. not long before, Wherein he
saw hs and children lying In coins In church,
distinct aud vivid as though real yet he was wide
awake. This assigned u reason ior his feelings,
and the whole thing seemed too unreasonable for
sensible person to notice. While riding along, with
his little boy asleep his lap, he felt sudden jerk
and jar, and Immediately found himself under water,
with his head fastened so he could not move the
whole affair flashed through his mind, and thcIc un-
nine eet Of water life time OF thought was or
pcrienced In an instant. To open his mouth was TO
MI II with water-breathe he must or psrish-liie
were worth the effort and, making one more almost
supcrhuman struggle, liis head was freed Ihen
seizing something above him he found
window and crawied out and up, just as = man
was passing with q lantern on log across
the stream partly weighed down ny INC wreck, e., me
get there Yn Totally unnerved, he could DO or
suy nothing; hts prescntiment had become terrible





pHssng and the tuey IN had turned over ana
the one behind had fallen on top oft His poor
wife fastened down with beam, so that her body
could be recovered until the wreck had been par
TALLY removed. The bodies oil his children werc ioupd
outside the but together, appearing as had
been there aid them as they came near inc
surface they might have been saved. Al Tue iuucrai
every feature Of his waking dream was there Just as
he had u days before and he then and there re-
! solved that II the subject OF such impros-
sions aga,n he should regard them at any
,acr, r,uco In the meantime Mr.. Fccso had
MARRIED again. Taking his family, he went
this last fall visit tho Centennial and Pcnnsyvana
trends He had determined TO get home on Saturday,
December 3O and informed tho friends here to that
| effect 10 do 80 they must take No b into Cleveland
| Friday night BY making proper application he could
get pass over the road, and three several times ne
attempted to write for IT, and as often srange I'm
pulse seized bim That he had better not AS the time
approacbed to 70 the same prcscntiinent came over
him as he elt before; hence IN accordance with his
resolution nothing could have persuaded him TO come
that way They therefore started On3 day earor and
came around by Wheeling at much greater outlay OF
| time and money When at Wheeling he read an &C.
count OF tho awful fate had escaped To attempt
explanation OF this vain. We can only say thcrc
are stranger things IN this world than Was evoS
| dreamt Ut In our philosophy.