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Show ,1 j- JU9 Ae HE DRAMED IT. yl l f ' , That Rondfcd an Bnglneer J ' yfrrerlcaa to Avert ColIIxlon. m ! .Ago Anderson, of Springfield, 111., , " engineer qn 'f v,imsJ- ailroad, v' OM - Vd of inv-ies wiucu e received in a 1M ynead-on "'ilon at Naples recently. IM 0n tlie mornirg of tho accident An- JBv derson drc....:cd that he had .been in a Ii collision, .at he had been pinioned bc- MA ncath his p. ;ine, ntul that tljccflenplng t steam had begun to burn hia flesh, when s$M ' ' h awoke. Anderson was troubled by MM f the dream and told hiB family about it. Im J Ha said ho felt that there was a warning im in the dream, and he wan almost per- M minded not to go out on the road that ' m day. but he went. Anderson talked to at hiB fireman about tho presentimont. I It evidently preyed upon his mind, for J Y ,e became abstracted in manner and al- , & J? t most heed lest of hia surroundings. The ? Me , nearer the train approached its destrna- ' 1 f f tion the moro distraught Anderson be- (" y' t came, and he had the appearance of I $ s dreaming again as he went about his f w work in the cab. lie did not give hia Ijk . usual attention to tho fireman, and the 1 M latter felt that something was wrong I . JL with the englneor. i-ljk W - At IIIuiTr Conductor Garrison got the I! Ik. M orders at the depot and took them to I Jilfel Anderson. The engineer hoard them WW$$M rent and ntemld to the reading In the 1 r& 5 same nbncnt-mindod manner that had Kir ' imt marked his conduct throughout the j $M' morning. Taking the copies, he mo- Wt,, chonically placed them under his scat ' Wmmk cushion. As the conductor turned away 1$hHP from the cab Anderson called him back fHHRt" " ,fini K'nff to have one of tho most IIJBhK awful wrecks you over heard of." yBBK, The conductor was startled, and asked mUmmmmW him what made him say this. 'HgUBp "I knov it i so," replied Anderson, Jj9RSHr "because I had trouble with my engine HkjItV all last night arid could not sleep. I am BHPjBp going to have a head-on collision." Hf JMt Garrison told him he had only suf- fmtmmf f crcd a nightmare. Anderson ohook hid r9B head gloomily and said he knew tho nc- 1-tmm' cident would occur. Anderson's orders MmWK instructed him to meet a local freight JHMHm at Naples and wait for that train to "1" zic tbc siding. When the point was Jfe reached Anderson gave no indication of mNMMk?' stopping his engine, and an the train sk jJ&tMitF dashed by the switch the fireman saw tBVBW his engineer sitting as if in n trance. JjM At the same moment he saw the local BjjL. coming down upon them. A collision HHHS5ite: ..,,. was inevitable and the fireman sprang WZmjM0MP for the footboard, crying to tho cn- TkLm&mMaWf' ,--,t Kincer to jump. fgNHHPTCfei ' -, Anderson looked at the fireman in a Bj3jjjffijr , dazed manner, but made no movement WmmmW ,1' C t toward the cab entrance. Tho firoman IHk&j' " ' sprang out and the trains rushed to- jMHPv?jr gcther. Anderson was caught beneath HPHp his engine just as he had dreamed he ,frM'N'' would be and the steam enveloped him. 1&HF X c wa8 inay taken from his awful po- g' "' sition, but ho had received injuries from r ' . which ho soon died. Every other man ' f ' on the train escaped. St. Louis Re- f : public. |