Show A HORRIBLE SCENE FLOATING ARMS AND LEGS AND AKU BLACK ROBED IN THE BLUE whoop up the kroml lug spooks shooks out east ol of barstow Ba said john carson an atlantic pacific railroad mao man tu to a reporter yesterday 1 I saw you hart had something in the examiner several weeks ago abort the mirage on tin mojave desert and the myriads of peo pie that were seen acen in in oats boats a abent out t there ere well ell thickening up in winter ti time e you know they always ret get thicker for or eight months now I 1 have been run running ti ng the hundred bundred mile division out om east ot of barstow the spooks shooks used to loom up about every other oiher day now we see them nearly all the time the ghou lest lot ot things too I 1 ever did see they appear in all sorts of shapes at first they were a tolerably abi rbi respectable pec table lot of ghosts clad in white raith with faces and hands bands that looked very much like apparitions as shown in pictures only onla they appeared and disappear disappeared ea floated horizontally orizon tally and in every other position in the air and always stayed about a quarter of a mile away from us now you can get within an eighth of a mile and some of them are twigged out like indians with feathers in their hair and sometimes a red streak around their bodies the scientists say that the increase in the phenomena Is owing to the peculiar atmospheric changes at this thia time of the year whether it is or not I 1 know they would have a very hard bard time convincing the people of it who travel over our oar line A woman last week who was from illinois fainted dead away when she got a glimpse of a lot of them sailing on an imaginary lake lakes and green arreen trees appear without number now on en the colorado desert fringing these lakes with a circle of green aad with atie strange characters floating about on them a queer sight is presented you never can get nearer than an eighth of a mile to these lakes there rose I 1 up in front of the ensine last saturday however I 1 said mr carsun on the strangest conglomeration of figures that I 1 presume mortal eyes ever beheld ever see pic pictures tares ot of dantes inferno as 0 illustrated by dore it was something som eming like that the sight an admixture of floating arms legs and pieces of shrouds or four white faced women as many gray bearded men and a solemn priest in black robes floated in the blue ether with the mass sol anderson andersen our oar engineer was the most seared scared man you ever saw he put on an every pound ot of steam he be had and we went tearing over the desett desert like mad wells bargos agent I 1 thought would have died lucky for us that the awful mirage hovered by the engine and tender else else we should have had a howling bowling lunatic asylum aboard the train do you suppose I 1 could have convinced them the things were not genuine not much fact is I 1 had a albl I 1 could do to hold my own self level Every time I 1 looked at them I 1 sald said my god those things are real I 1 there cant be anything so clearly represented as that and not be genuine ulner well they hovered there for full twenty minutes and then disappeared like a flash beyond were nothing but our green fringed lakes the desert lust just now is unusually hard and parched the sun shines clear and warm if the apparitions thicken I 1 dont kitow know what we will do with our people some of them are likely to go raving mad san an francisco examiner 1 |