Strange Presentiment.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 131, 2 May 1884, Page 2

Strange Presentiment.

Here is a story for die Society for Psychical Raseareb. It was told by a late manager of a Rhondda colliery, who is said to l>e a thoroughly trustworthy man, lo a Welsh journalist. Sitting one Sunday morning -with three comrades m the lodgeroom at the bottom of a shaft he was suddenly seized by an irresistable impulse to jtscend at once, which impulse he told to the 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 before, again prompted the manager to urge their ascent, and agnin while talking a drop of water falling into the lamp again put it out. In consternation they gave the signal to be lifted up, and no sooner had they,, reached the open air than a terrible explosion took place, shattering the shaft, and filling it with debris, which could only be removed after some months of hard labor. This remarkable incident stands by no moans alone, forebodings and dreams having warned the samer miner at various times of coming danger.