Railroad Builder Makes Tracks to Suit Spirits

1922

INSPIRED BY SPIRIT WORLD

Arthur E. Stilwell Says He Was Advised in Railroad Building.

NEW YORK, June 15. — That every foot of the 3,000 miles of railroad he has built was constructed according to the advice of spirits and that he changed the direction of the Kansas City Southern so as to have his terminal at Port Arthur, Tex., instead of Galveston because the spirits warned him to avoid the latter place, is the assertion of Arthur E. Stilwell, who says he has been president of many railroads and was present for seven years of the National surety company.

Making his revelations last night at a meeting of spiritualists, he said he had not revealed his relations with the spirit world before because he did not want "people to think me a nut."

"When I was building the Kansas City Southern I was warned not to build the terminal at Galveston because it would lead to disaster. They told me to terminate it at Lake Sabine, where I built the terminal of Port Arthur. Four days after the terminal was completed the tidal wave wiped out Galveston."

—The Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 16, 1922, page 1.