Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — SEES A VISION AND DIES. [ARTICLE]

SEES A VISION AND DIES.

St. I’aul Invalid Is Thrown Into Convulsions by Shock. A vision at the window was responsible for hastening the death of Mrs. Catherine Norman Cariveau, who has died at her home in St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Cariveau had been ill for Several months, heart disease and consumption having gradually sapped her vitality until death was only a matter of time. Saturday evening William Cariveau, husband of the woman, was sitting with her. She had fallen asleep. Suddenly she awakened, pointing out of the window, crying: “Look, Will! Look!” Cariveau heard something strike on the screen, but could see nothing when he looked. The sick woman was thrown into convulsions, and when she had quieted sufficiently, told her husband that she had seen his sister, Miss Cariveau, dressed entirely in white, and wearing wings, standing outside the window and stretching out her hands. Mrs. Cariveau maintained that the noise of something striking the screen which her husband had heard was the striking of the sister’s wings as she passed the window. The shock following this’ vision was so great that Mrs. Cariveau never recovered, dying at 3 o’clock Sunday morning. Miss Cariveau was at that time hanging between life and death. She is still alive, but her death is expected momentarily.