Show Oklahoma Hermit Correct in Predicting Pre-dicting Floods Railway Builders Stand In Awe of Him Because River Wrecks Bridge Thrice as He Said It Would Muskogee Okla Living In a hut on the bank of the Canadian river near Porum his abiding place for 30 years Is Pierre Davis a hermit whose Jour neylngs In all that time have never carried him outside of a alx milo radius of his cabin and then only for food and skins for clothing Davis Is six feet tall finely built and of commanding presence His great hobby In fact his only hobby is to foretell certain events especially pertaining to floods So accurate has he been that workmen along the Midland Mid-land Valley railroad almost stand In awe of the queer old man Three times last autumn he predicted pre-dicted that floods would come and each time a deluge arrived on the date he named While workmen were completing anew a-new Midland Valley bridge to replace the one washed away tho old hermit made his first appearance For a time ho regarded the bridge workers silently silent-ly Then he spoke to the foreman of I the gang You see little water In the riverbed river-bed now he said hut In 30 days the floods will come and the bridge will be carried away Having made his prophecy the old hermit strode away and the workmen laughed ot him as If he were crazy Exactly 29 days later the flood came The following day the Canadian river swept away the bridge The bridge was rebuilt and when the workmen had neatly completed It the hermit again appeared He prophesied that November 22 there would be a 14foot rise In the river and that the bridge would again be washed away The 22d of November tho bridge was again washed away Four days later while workmen were rebuilding tho bridge the picturesque pic-turesque figure appeared again Solemnly Sol-emnly the old hermit prophesied that the following Sunday the bridge would again go out The prophecy proved true Undaunted the company again put workmen to rebuilding the bridge which was completed December 111 Before the final repairs wore made Davis made another prophecy Ho said that the Hist train would not bo run over the bridge until December IE This prophecy also proved true Although tho bridge was completed t December 13 there was a delay In getting get-ting tho first train over and It was not until the 15th that traffic was resumed re-sumed On every occasion Davis has foretold fore-told the exact height to which the river would rise and his predictions have been correct |