DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XXI, 21 November 1896, Page 81

DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE.

LITTLE attention is given nowadays to prophetic visions, but two stories which are told in connection with the Hendreforgan colliery explosion at Gwys are circumstantial enough to be worth noting. The first case, given in detail by the Cambria Daily Leader, is that of William Walters, one of the colliers working in the pit. On Saturday Walters announced his determination of remaining away from work, because of a dream of an accident which he had had overnight. At the bottom of the pit Walters perceived, in his dream, a wreck made of coal, trams, and human bodies. So plain was this that he could count nearly a dozen bodies lying in the fearsome heap, and at times the dream mist would lift so that he found himself in his sleep straining to see if he could ascertain the features of those he could see in the weird picture, being fearful of finding his own form among the slain. Despite the jeers of his comrades, the man stuck to his resolution not to go down the shaft, and spent the morning instead in the public-house Not a wit more explicable was a dream of Mrs Sarah Lewis, whose son is among the badly injured. Mrs Lewis owned to having had disturbing dreams on several occasions in her life, but said that she had never had such a fearful vision as visited her on Friday night. She dreamed that she was suddenly transported from her home into the depths of Hendreforgan. She saw that she was at the bottom of the drift. Close by her was a jumble of wreckage and human beings, amongst the mangled forms being that of her son. Then the phantasmagoria faded away, and she was the only human being in the pit’s depths. Suddenly the faint roll of the wheels and the jolt of cars was heard by her, and she noticed that the trams were moving. Then the stilness of the pit was broken by shrieks of wild despair, and dashing down the drift came a number of cars containing several men and lads, amongst the number her son, all doomed to be hurled to the bottom to meet an inevitable death at her feet. At the instant of the impact of the car she found her voice and cried out aloud in her agony, waking everyone in the house. When daylight came Mrs Lewis pluckily threw off her dark impressions. Her son went to his work and was brought back badly injured.