The Cambrian Daily Leader, quoted by the Westminster Gazette last
week, tells a remarkable story of "dreams that came true" in connection with the Hendreforgan colliery explo- sion at Gwys. William Walters, one of the colliers, dreamed that he saw at the bottom of the pit a wreck of coal, trams, and human bodies. So plain was this, that he could count nearly a dozen bodies lying in the heap. Despite the jeers of his comrades, the man stuck to his resolution not to go down the shaft. Mrs. Sarah Lewis, whose son is among the badly injured, the night before 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 phantas- magoria 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 stillness 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 every one in the house." Her son, however, went to his work, and was brought back badly injured. One would like to know whether the evidence to support these stories is really as good as it sounds. People, after a great accident, are always apt to say that they thought something was going to happen.
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