As I Lay Dying Questions 4-6

4. Is Faulkner foreshadowing the problems that the Bundren family will face in the line, "He will save me from the water and from the fire" on page 168?
5. What happened to the mules during the trauma in the river? (I was confused about if they died or were on the other side of the shore.)
6. Why does Anse refer to Addie in the present tense during Samson's chapter?