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Show III g JUST AS HE DREAMED IT. mil W A VIlon That Ilcndcrcd (in Englncrr Powcrlew to Avert Collision. Ml ' George Anderson, of Springfield, 111., an engineer on the Wabash railroad, 4 died of injuries which he received in a I head-on collision at Naples recently. i On the morning of tin accident Anil, An-il, lerson dreamed that he had, been in a I collision, that ho had been, pinioned be-I be-I ,- neath his engine, and that the escaping I steam had begun to burn his flesh, when I j he awoke. Anderson was troubled by 1 the dream and told his family about it. J j1 lie said he felt that there was a warning jn the drveam, and ho was almost persuaded per-suaded not to go out on the road that day, but ho went. Anderson talked to i his fireman about the presentiment. i It evidently preyed upon his mind, for w lie became abstracted in manner and ul-$ ul-$ . moat heedless of his fiurroundiugs. The i' nearer the train approached its destlna- ( tion the more distraught Anderson be- ' l ' came, and he had the appearance of dreaming again as he went obout his J, work in the cab. He did not give his W usual attention to the fireman, and the T latter felt that something was wrong ('' with the engineer. i At Bluffs Conductor Garrison got the E orders at the depot and took them to i ' ' Anderson. The engineer heard them 1 - read and attended to the reading in the. - came absent-minded manner that had marked his conduct throughout the morning. Taking the copies, he me- , chanically placed them under his scat , ' i ' cushion. As the conductor turned away ' ' from the cab Anderson called him back ! . - and said: ' ' "I nm going to have one of the most j nwf ul wrecks you ever heard of." 1 " . The conductor was startled, and asked him what made him say this. "I know it is so," replied Anderson, "because I had trouble with my engine ) all last night and could not sleep. I am i going to have a head-on collision." ! Garrison told him he had only suf- &' ' fered a nightmare. Anderson shook his licnd gloomily and said ho knew the ac- - -cident would occur. Anderson's orders '. ' instructed him to meet a local freight ' . ?it Naples and wait for that train to take the Biding. When the point was Tcachcd Anderson gave no indication of stopping his engine, and as the train dashed by theswitch the fireman saw his engineer sitting as if in a trance. At the same moment he saw the local y(r ' coming down upon them. A collision 4 was inevitable and the fireman sprang for the footboard, crying to the cn--v . glneer to jump. niy t w,u Anderson looked at the fireman in a . dazed manner, but made no movement toward the cab entrance. The fireman sprang out and the trains rushed together. to-gether. Anderson was caught beneath his engine just as he had dreamed he would be and the steam enveloped him. lie was finally taken from his awful po-. po-. sitlon, but he had received injuries from v.hich ho soon died. Every other man on the train escaped. St. Louis To- pulvJic. |