WARNINGS AND PRESENTIMENTS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1156, 25 April 1884, Page 4

WARNINGS AND PRESENTIMENTS.

Here is a story for the Society for Psychical Research. It was fold l>y a late manager pf a Rhondda -cotliei y, who is said to be a tnoroughly tr stworthy man,, to a Welsh journalist, fitting-one Sunday morning with three comrades in the lodgeroom at the bottom of a shaft, he was suddenly seized by an irresistible impnlsc to ascend at once, which impulse he told to the other men, who, however, refused to go. While talking, a drop of water from the wall above put out the lamp of one of the men, obliging him to ascend When he returned the impulse, stronger than befo'e, again prompted [the manager to urge their ascent, and again while talking, a drop of water falling into the lamp again put the light out. In consternation they gave the signal to lie rifted up, and no sooner had they reached the open air than a terrible explosion took place, shattering the shaft and filling it with debrig, which -could only be removed after months of hard labour. This remarkable incident stands by no means alone, ■forebodings and dreams having warned the same miner at various times of corning danger. Clearly this Rhondda -manager should be elected a life member of Professor Barrett’s society.

iiereis another remarkable story—this t'me of a presentiment of death. Christopher Brooks, son of Professor Brooks died last December at Baltimore at the age ot 17. Brooks, a strong and Wealthy youth, was taken i 1 Hiheu on a point of starting for a tour iu blurope. After a time, however, he was again able to go about; but, in spite of the apparent recovery, the boy maintained that he would have to'die on : the 3rd of December at 5 o’clock, of heart-disea e, friend of his, who had died a few months before, having warned him of this in ■a vision. Friends to whom he had told this story ridiculed it as the morbid fancy of an invalid. On the morning of the fatal day the father of the youth, who was absent from home, jestinglyj!remarked at breakfast that this was the day cu which his son siipposed he had to die. The son, in the meanwhile, rose as usual, ate a hearty breakfast, and remained cheerful and apparently well until about 2 o’clock, when he asked to be taken to his room, as he fell faint. At 3 o’clock he was a corpse, the prophecy thus having been .literally {fulfilled. The facts, it is said, can be easily verified. Professor Brooks, the father of the young mun, is engaged in the Female College, Baltimore, Maryland, and the incident is said to have been the sensatimifof the town.