Mark Twain : a Warning Dream

At age 23, preceding he became famous as Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens dreamed he saw a metal coffin laying on two chairs in his sister's parlor. As he approached the coffin, he saw the body of his brother Henry. One detail in particular caught his attention: a bundle of white flowers, with one blood red flower in the middle, lying on Henry's chest. A couple of days later, a Mississippi riverboat exploded and many of the passengers and team were killed. Henry had been one of the team individuals. At the point when Clemens rushed to the scene, in Memphis, he discovered his brother lying unconscious on a mattress in an ad libbed hospital. There was some expectation that his brother would pull through, yet six days later, he kicked the bucket. At the point when Clemens arrived at the room which was being used as a temporary mortuary, he found that the vast majority of the dead were lying in plain wooden coffins, yet there was one metal coffin lying on two chairs. Henry's battle to endure had roused such enthusiasm among the Memphis ladies that they had taken up an accumulation and purchased a metal coffin for him. As Clemens approached his brother's casket, an elderly lady went into the room carrying a large bunch of white flowers with one blood red rose in their inside, and laid them on Henry's chest.