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IB WEDS A FUTURE KING MARRIAGE OF PRINCESS MAT AND THE DUKE OF YORKThe Wedding Takes Place at the Historic Chapel Royal of St. .James's > Palace ? The Queen and Many Nobles Attend?Scene of Pomp and Spieudor?The Wedding Gifts t \ 7 THE DUKE OF TOBff. The marriage of the Duke o? York ("Prince Oeorge of Wales) and Princess Victoria Mary ofTecktook place at 12 :30 o'clock a few days ago in the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, London. The wedding was a brilliant function and was attended by a large gathering of the members of the British royal family, Continental sovereigns or their representatives ' ;m-i selected members of the highest nobility. The weather was beautiful, for a iin*r day has seldom been seen in London. The occasion was made a partial British holiday. Great crowds gathered many deep along the line of the route from Buckingham Palace, up Constitution Hill, through Piccadilly, St. James's street and Marlborough (late to the garden entrance to St. James's Palace, which is situated on the north side of the Mail. The decorations along the line of the royal procession wore profuse. The roadway was kept open by the Household troops in their glittering uniforms, by the regular guards, by the Metropolitan Volunteers and ? 1 VoAmonrv A.nrf hv thft miiiua, /iiuvutocA Awii.w..^ ? police. It is estimated that there were at least 1.000.000 spectators in' the streets through which the procession moved. Many fainted in the crush and had to be taken to hospitals. . . The royal party left Buckingham Palace in four processions, the first conveying the members of the household and distinguished jfuests. The next procession included the Duke of York, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh. The bride came In the third procession, accompanied by her father, the Duke of Teok, and her brother, Prinoe Adolphus, of Teck. The last procession was that of the Queen, who, aicompanied by her younger sons and the Grand Duke of Hesse, drove in State to the ceremonial. Each procession was accompanied by a Life Guards escort, and in addition to this the Queen had an escort of Indian, native and Australasian horse. Her Majesty rode in the state coach used when she opens Parliament and on other apeolal occasions. The body of the carriage, which is of Irish manufacture having been built in Dublin, is painted a dark red color, and its richly gilt panels are adorned with the royal arms. The roof is surmounted by ?. crown and bordered with a wreath of gilt joses, thistles ?nd shamrocks. 1 THE DUCHEflS OF YOBK. The cheering as tna royal oarriage arove forward was immense. The members of the royal family and guests on alighting at St. James's Palace, walked to the State apartments, and subsequently down the grand staircase and under the tjourt Colonnade to the seats reserved for them in the chapel. The Queen alighted in the Ambassadors' Court. Thence she walked to the north end of the edifice. The spot was adorned with palms and flowers and carpeted with crimson. Upon the royal platform seats were provided for the Prince and Prinoess of Wales, the bride and bridegroom, and other members of the royal family and royal guests from abroad. The members of the diplomatic body, including the members of the United States Embassy and the othor invited guests, occupied seats in the body of the chapel and in the royal and oast galleries. Drawing room dresses were worn by the women, and the men appeared in full levee dress. The* marriage ceremony op?ned with the procession or me ciergy mio me caapei. This consisted of the Archbishop of Canterbury, tne Bishop of London, tho Dean of the Chapel Royal, the Suo-Dean, the Bishop of RocOtster. the Hon. and Rev. E. Carr-Glyn, 1 Vicar of Kensington ; Canon Hervey. Domestic Chapain to the Prince of Wales, and Canon Dalton, Honorable Chaplain to the Duke of York. Handel's march from the ''Occasional Overture'' was played by the organist as the procession came forward. While the Archbishop and clergy were taking their place? the musij of the march in Scipio" came from the organ, and immediately the front ot the second procession, including the royal family and royal guests, came in sight. The bride wore the veil which was worn by her mother on the occasion of her own marriage. Her wedding gown was of Silver brocade in perfect harmony with the Bridemaid's toilets of white satin and silver lace. The brldemaid's gowns were made with low bodices, and neither hats, wreaths not veils were worn; only a simple rose in the hair. The Queen headed the procession. She walked alone, leaning on an ebony stick. Her Majesty was attired in a black dress with a train. The bodice was of broche silk, with Jace. She wore aoross her bosom the broad blue ribbon of the Order of the Garter, and on hpr head -was asmall diamond crown, from which a veil depended. Around her neck was a necklace of diamonds with pendant attached. As her Majesty passed up the nave of the chapel the whole assemblage bowed. Folio wins the Queen came the Priace of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh, and behind them walked a number of Admirals in full uniform, escorting the bridcroom, who W^re the uniform of a fleet captain. The C<arewitoh. thi official representative of the Eruperor of Russia, was ia military uniform and wore a picturesque white sling jacket edjjed with ermiae. The Kinc of Denmark escorted bis daughter. the Princess of Wales. The Princess wore a dress of pure white silk and a tiara o' diamonds. The Marquis of Loraa wore the dress of a Hurhlaad chief, the plaid of which was that of the Campbell claa. His wife. Princess Louise, tbe fourth daughter of the Queen, was attired in a heliotrope colored robe. 8he also had a tiara of diamonds. The bride leaned upon the arm of her father, and as the procession moved her train was carried by her bridesmaids, the Princesses Victoria and Maud, of Wales, Princesses Victoria Alexandra and Beatrice, ol Edinburgh; Prinoessea Margaret and Vio form Patricia, of Connaught. Princess Victoria. of Schleswig-Holstein, and Princess Eugenie. Among the notabilities present were Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone. They were in their seats before the royal party appeared in the chapel. Mr. Gladstone wore the uniform of the Brethren of Trinity House which included a large pair of naval epaulets. At the conclusion of the closing hymn and prayer the Queen was the first to salute the royal couple, after which the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of Teck kissed the bride and congratulated the groom. The Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the other clergy, performed the ceremony, the bride being given away by her father. MendelsSohn's "Wedding March" was played as the royal party left the chapel, the "united processions of tbo bride and bridegroom leading to the throne room, where the registry of the marriage was attested by her Majesty and the other membera of the royal family and royal guests. The dejeuner was served at Buckingham Palace, the Queen proposing the toast of the "Bride and Bridegroom," and the Lord Steward the toast of "The Queen." After receiving congratulations, the Duke and Duchess of York left Buckingham Palace, driving through the Mall to the city, and thence proceeded by the Great Eastern Railway from Liverpool street to oaaaruiKuaiu. The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs met the newly wedded pair at St. Paul's Cathedral, and their progress through the decorated and crowded street was a triumphal one. Presents were received from all parts of the British dominions. The Prince of Wales's gift to the bride consisted mostly of jewelry and precious stones, the whole being valued at 81,250,000. The Princess May of Teck is the eldest child and only daughter of the Duke of Teck and Princess Mary of Cambridge, who are both connected by marriage with nearly every sovereign in Europe. She was born in Kensington Palace on May 20, 1867. and the greater part of her life has been spent at White Lodge, Richmond Park, the residence of her parents. The Duke of York is the only surviving son of the Priuce of Wales, and by inheritance stands next but one to the throne of England. fHE NATIONAL GAME. ' The New Yorks are badly crippled. The game is booming in the West. Pittsbuho has released Pitcher Gastrlght. Pete" Bbownino, of Louisville, is batting well. GLxsecocK will strengthen the Pittsburg Club. * Boston has not yet been shut out thte season. The St. Louis Club has oanceled the release of Catcher Buckley. Stein and Kennedy have so far done about all of Brooklyns' winning pitching. Geoboe Davies, the pitcher of the Cleveland Club, has been released to New York. Cleveland has won seven out of the nine games played between Cleveland and Pittsburg. Milliqan is catching finely for New York, which would have been In a bad hole wither t him. Sixteen baseballs were used in that seven* teen-inning game between Now York and Cincinnati. With Nichols. Stivetts and Staley all in good form, the Itoston team is well equipped for pitchers. Hoy, Washington's denf and dumb centra fielder, is playing a great game. He is hitting the ball hard, too. Stein, of Brooklyn, still leads the League Eitcbers In point of effectiveness, he having ad few&t runs earned off his pitching. It Is now assured that Catcher MacMahon, of New York, whose third finger on the right hand was so badly shattered, will not play again before 1894. These isn't a right fielder in the country who has cut off half as many base hits this I year as Treadway, of the Baltimores. at a ha9 seventeen arista to his credit. Regis and Milligan, of New York, weigh 435 (rounds, constituting the heaviest battery in the League. Carsey and Cross, of Philadelphia, make one of the lightest batteries in the League. Wabd points out as evidenoe of hard luck that New York lost eleven games by one run and won only one by that narrow margin; besides, the club has not been able to win an extra-Inning game. The three men who are regarded as the greatest baseball leaders ot. the ball field? A.nson, of Chicago ; Comiskey, of Cincinnati, and Ward, of New York?are heads of teams away down in the race. The merriest hunt for pitchers in the experience of the oldest timers has begun. Harry Wright cannot remember the time when the promising young men were any more closely watched than at present. One of the strongest reasons for the low standing of the Louisvilles In the League race is that they have played so few games at home. Up to a recent date but three games ~ Vv?? fka /link An fka knma JUtftU UDOU piojou, ujr U3 viui/ vu vuv uvuiu <2-1 ounds since the opening of the season. New York has played twenty-one men in the field this season; Baltimore and St. Louis,twenty; Cincinnati,nineteen ; Chicago and Louisville, eighteen ; Cleveland, seventeen ; Brooklyn. Philadelphia and Pittsburg, fifteen; Boston and. Washington, iaurtesa. becobd or THE lba.guk clubs. Per Par Clnb*. Won. T,ojt, ct. Club*. Won. L*st. ct. Philadel.. .41 21 .661 New York.23 34 .452 Boston.....39 23 .629 Baltimore.27 33 .450 Brooklya. .35 26 .574 St. Louis. .27 34 . 443 Pittsburg. .35 28 .555 Wash'ng'm.26 37 .413 Cleveland.31 25 . 554,Chlcago...25 36 . 410 Cincianatl.31 31 .500fLoulsvUle .17 34 . 333 FATAL FLAMES. Five Persons Burned to Death on a Steamboat. Tho big steamboat Bethel, anchored at the foot of Sibley street. St. Paul, Minu.. and used tor the pas: three years as a lodging and boarding bouso for about 200 poor poop<?, was burned to the water's orlr.il of nlovan nVlnnk n m. Five lives wero lost and seven persons wen& njured. Fifty porsons were asleep on the Lethol. So rapid was the progress ot the flaraos that those aboard the bout had to jump fo.* their lives in their night clothing. The 3teanxboat Sidney was tied to the Bethel, but by quick work in cutting her hawsers she was floated down stream uninjured. Tho loss on the Bethel is $10,000. At 1 o'clock iu the morning five bodies had already boen recovered, those of Mrs. Meak% matron of the Bethel; O'Shaughncesy and two unknown men. Lulu Morgan, a girl of twelve, daughter of the Rev. David Morgan, pastor of the Bethel, was takeu to the City Hospital in a dying condition. The bodies of two women were then still in the hull of the boat. When the second story of the boat fell in they were seen to fall, clasped in oach other's arms, into the flames. The flre was caused by the explosion of a lamp ia the wash room. A HUNDRED SUFFOCATED. Appalling Result of tho Tliornhlll Colliery ICxplosIon. The work of rescuing the living miners and oi recovering the bodies of the dead wa? pushed as rapidly as possible in Ingram's colliery, Thornhill, Yorkshire, EntjIanJ. the scon's of tho late disistrous explosion, th.it entombed the day shift oi 153 uieu. On? hundred and six ware killed. Late on the afternoon after the calamity the rescuers had brought eighty-ei^ht bodies to the sur'a.^e. Two men were brought up in an uncousciou3 condition, but still breathing. I OIA UJOu uuu uuu ouJtuiuou uv iujuijr whatever, but who had been imprisoned behind a huge maas of debris, were dug out. Whoa they appeared at the mouth of the pit they were greeted in a most touching wauuer by their relatives and friends. Quarantine will be established this summer in eastern Arizona, in California, west of Yuma on the Southern Pacific, west of The Needles, ea3t of Truckee, and on the Oregon State line. The whole State will be quarantined if cholera appears in New York. HOWTHE WORLD TRM EXHIBITS IN THE BIG FAIR TRANSPORTATION PALACE The Gorgeous Golden Door?Amerlc and Foreign Kxhibita of Kver thing Relating to Travel on Lai and Sea?Anelent and Mode methods Contrasted. A (ramp over the extensive acreage of t Transportation Bnilding is calculated to gi one respect for the dimensions of the Wori Fair. Just to walk by and look at the < hibits is a day's work. rne uoiaen uoor 01 tne iranaporiaii edifice is celebrated?just as a black sheep ?because it is so different from its felloe This palace is unlike all the others in col and general design. It is nearly a thousa feet long. and one-quarter as wide, and surmounted by a cupola 165 feet high, which eight elevators are constantly nj ning. Its grand portal, or '-Golden Door," fat the lagoon and the shores of "Wooded I and." It consists ot a series of recedi arches entirely overlaid with gold leaf. 1 its general effect is gorgeous and not hi monious. Along the stairways which le from the entrance are typical statuesbrakeman, a helmsman, Stephenson, Fultc Watt, the apostles of Progress, the Arist< racy of Invention. Evidently the masses from the West thl more of this building and of Machinery H than of the Art Palace. This is natural, sa a Chicago correspondent of the New Yo Journal. The railroad as the developer almost superhuman in Western eyes. To are due such marvels as the growth of CI cago. Then why not have a temple to oe brate its greatness? And what a temple is! Long lines of massive yet superl graceful cars, mighty locomotives, exquisi ly decorated, and watched over by men w treat them as if they were steeds which ci think and act; gigantic snow plows, At oleave the most stubborn drifts ofthetiPlerrn quaint groups of early locomotives?litl old-fashioned tea-pots, which look as If th could be carried In the tenders of modern e gines: vast collections of photographs illi trating railroad machinery; air brakes o erating on a hundred cars at once; limit trains equipped like palaces?what is the aot in this wonderful place? -?i' -IJ fl 'OOLDIW DOO*w 0* TH Look at the old ''Comet" here. It is t! very oldest locomotive ever ran in Americ and was brought from England In 18311 an English company. Near it stands Robe P. Burt, of Janesville, Wisconsin, who h the honor of being the oldest engineer In tl land. I wonder how he feels when he gets in tl shadow of such monsters as that looomoti from the Baldwin Works, in Philadelphi which weighs 195,000 pounds'? Thero is a other giant on its pedestal, an engine fro the Brooks Works, weighing 180,000 pounc When the Corean Embassy saw the leviathans, they stood as if stupefied. Final they asked if they would really run on tracl and the assurance that they would All them with amazement. THE LOCOMOTIVE SAMSOJf. Another very interesting exhibit is the c locomotive'-Samson,"cneof the first engin ever introduced into America. This engi was built in 1838, at New Sheldon, Durhai England, and brought to this country abo the s:imo time. It was used in the AIbi* coal mine, near Stellarton, NovaScotiu, uu a few years ago. Accompanying the loc motive is the passenger car. It Is a clum affair, containing two 3eats, with room 1 about four or five passengers. The doc open on the sides, the same as many Engli coaches of to-day. The engine and coa are in a pretty fair state of proservatio The tender in those days went ahead of t locomotive, while the engineer stood on t rear. The engine is a standard gauge, i verted direct-acting, with four-foot drivei Two other anoient locomotives are al among the exhibits, the '-Albion" and '*0 Ironsides." Both of these are more primiti in their construction than the "Samson and are not quite so large. The original "John Bull" is standing the New York Central tracks, and the 3 Witt Clinton, with its historic train coaches, is also here in its counterfeit. One of the gigantic exhibits in the sou end of this Transportation Building is t model of the great 125-tom steam hammer the Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Works. T original hammer weighs 2386 tons. T model is of staff and wood. It is exhibit here because the Bethlehem hammer torp steamship shafts and cranks, as well as gu and armor plates. It is shaped like a let) A. Its highest point stands ninety f< above the floor line..and is thirty-eight f( wide. The supports are each oomposed two parts, the lower ones weighing seveul one tons each, and thi upper ones fori .i.Ui ?A?<i TKo llnfKloham hammer Olglit IVUn cauiu AUO xAJiuiuuvM one-quarter larger than the 100-ton hamm used in an Italian dockyard. The beautiful exhibit of the New Yo Central Railroad, which includes oomph and luxurious trains and a model railro station, is out of doors. It is admired tens of thousands of visitors daily. In the southern section of the Annex the are lino displays by the Philadelphia Reading, the Old Colony, and the Chicago Northwestern Railroads. The latter exhi its the '"Pioneer," a little puffing billy-gc of an engine, the first ever sent into Chicag The Pennsylvania Railroad is richly rt resented. The marine exhibit of America is good can but briefly allude to it. Perhaps t most striking thing is the section of an I lantic liner, showing the interior arrant ments ; it is so realistic that it fairly maii you seasick. Here is an exquisite model tne Puritan ; and here are steam and olecti launches, dories, schooners and raci yachts until the wearied vision can no long contain them. More than sixty thousand square feet .1 covered by the exhibition of land and a travel in France. The French lino m S steamers are well represented, the display consisting principally of six large paintings or dioramas, representing an arrival at New York Harbor of two of the company's steamers ; "Going on board at Havre." sbrvwiug >CS the dock with one steamer ready to go, and 1 ? taking passengers and baggage, and a special I train arriving from Paris ; the dining-room II of a steamer at night, lighted with electricity; the arrival of an African steamer at Marftn seilles ; a view of Algiers, with blue sky and sea, and steamer iii harbor; the coast at ^ " Penhoet in St. Nazaire, with two steamers in process of construct! on. These pictures were rn painted by Philpot. Hoffbaur, Montenardnnd Motte. The remaining portioD of the exhibit consists of models of coast steamers. he ive -Xk. si- ^ Qg THE TURKISH 9EDAK CHAIR. lut " ? ir- Just to the right of the main antrance is ad tho British section, extending through the -a main building into the annex. In fron* is a in, carriage and saddlery exhibit. Then comes >c- the splendid marine exhibit of Great Britain. Nearly all the great ship building Arms aro nk represented by models, one, that of the warall ship Victoria, being thirty feet long, and cost ys $20,000. It ie said to be the fluent marine rk model ever made. The Fairfield Shipbuildis ing Company, builders of the new Cunarders, i it shows models of merchant marine. Thehi Thames Iron Works <k Shipbuilding Comle pany has models of every variety of war ve&it ael?. There are exhibits of naval armament >)y and coast defense. In this section is a model, te- twenty feet long, of the great bridge over the ho Frith of Forth, in Scotland. The railway an section of the British exhibit includes a comto plete frame and locomotive shown by the l? ; London <fc Northwestern Railway Company, tie , the first exhibit of its kind in this country. <w i This comDanv also shows models of railway in- stations, and one of the original Stephenson is- locomotives, the "Rocket." There is also p- shown the Trevltchick locomotive, the first oA j that ever drew cars. The London <fc Northire | western exhibit includes a section of ideal ' railway track; also an exhibit of a section of E TRANSPORTATION BUILDINO. he the actual strap railway on which the Trevit a, chick locomotives ran in 1804. The latter by exhibit includes two of the original cars, the >rt whole shipment having been sent directly as from Wales, and weighing five tons. The tie Great Western Railway Company, of England, exhibits in this section the original tie seven-foot-guage locomotive, "Lord or the ve Isles," built in 1851, for exhibition at the first a, World's Fair. n- The Canadians show a complete transitu continental train, such as are in use on the Is. Canadian Pacific. The cars are of solid maee hogany and lighted by electricity. lly In striking contrast with this is the "dog [S, train," such as is still in use in the far Northed west, with the energetic dogs obeying the commands of the half-breed drivers. ? The German exhibit covers the entire southern portion of the main building and a part of the annex. All the decorative features of this exhibit, which are elaborate and beautiful, were furnished by the German Commission. A special feature of the display is an exhibit of the Siemens k Halske system of interlocking switching apparatus. Two looomotive3 and all kinds of railway cars, including ambulance cars used by tho Red Cross Society in war times, are shown. There is a great track museum from Osoa_ bruok. p What else can I tell you of such a vast show? Here is everything relating to transportation ; here are bicyoies in every stage of development; sedan chairs from Turkey ? and "rickshas" from Japan; Mrs. French>ld Sheldon's palaquin, in which sho was cares ried in Africa; Mexican leathern hammocks, DW a mexican cabt. on Da 0( Spanish mule trains, dahabeahs of the Nile and flat boats of the muddy Mississippi, th It is the museum of go ; the epitome of b0 push; the summing up of our modern 0f material progress. 5 WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Eveby 8tate building has from one to three :0r pianos in its different reception rooms, jet A seventy-two pound salmon in a cake of jet ice weighing 800 pounds has been placed on of exhibition in the Fisheries Building. y~ Among the mineral curiosities there is a y~ twalvo-ton lump of oannel coal sent from ^ Lancashire. England, by the Wigan Junction Colliery. r|. Mb. Gladstone has sent one of his axes 3tQ with which he cut down trees for exhibition a(j in the Forestry Building. It is of line stoel, (jy and is very sharp and heavy. The Koslyn lamp of coal from the State of >re Washington is tho largest over miued. It is A five feet thick, twenty-six feet long, and A weighs more than 50,000 pounds. ib- The Woman's Building is 200 feet in width "*t by 338 feet in length and is said to be the most expensive tor th? size and quality of ita >P- construction of any of the World's Fair buildings. i * The National Association of Woman Stenographers has opened a booth in the Woman's Building. Miss Ida C. Orr, the fastest writer in the country, will give dally tJ exhibitions of speed each afternoon from pj(j "2 to 4 o'clock. ng There are 166 places where ono may rogis,er ter his name and residence, and there are ' those who do not rest easy until they have kre inscribed their signature on every one of thorn. iea The register crank is a now production oi ail the World's Fair. TffOBLD'S FAIR EM NEARLY A SCOKE PEEISH : A FIEE TBAP. The Cold Storage Building Burn to the Ground ? Firemen on Tower Cut OfT From Escape?Tli Leaped to the Roof, Seventy F< Below, Only to Perish. Amid a scene of horror and confusion the World's Fair Grounds at Chicago a fl ally constructed building erected by the H culee Iron Company, used as a cold stori warehouse and ice skating rink, was bun to the giound between 2 and 5 o'clock in afternoon. As far as was known at mtdnl eighteen men were killed and nineteen oth Injured. At least eleven firemen, proba two lemonade girls and four other pers were killed and about forty persons were jured, many of them fatally. Jaat how the fire started will Droba never be known. Fire showed itself in tower of the cold storage warehouse 1.30 o'olock. The entire brigade of World's Fair Fire Department answered alarm. Reaching the scene of the bis Chief Murphy ordered his men to the rool the building, whence a score or more clt bered up the ladders of the tower to the 1 balcony, where, 150 feet above the earth, i flames wera curling about the cupola. The grounds were' thronged with visitc The heavens were blue above. A brisk no wind swept over the park and the gaudy ginee and carts seemed but to add to 1 holiday appearance of the scene. A line of hose was dragged up to the w; ing firemen on the top balcony. A tri Captain came to the edge of the roof t shouted the signal for a steamer to be pumping. Before the order had been tra mitted to the engineman tho fire sudde burst through the white sides of the tow midway of its height. The treaoherous element had eaten its v down the wooden siding between the ii ehimney and the exterior until the men i the balcony were cut off. A shout from assembled thousands told them of their d ger. They had been watching the flai above them, and discovered those below o when it was too late. Chief Murphy himself had led his men their perilous olimb to the balcony, and wl the fire burst forth below he ordered then save themselves. They could not go dowi they had come np, for the interior of tower was a roaring crater. The men of the hook and ladder true seeing the peril of their comrades, sprang their machines, and the big ladders w slowly hoisted against the roof. Meant' the flames spread with inoredible rapid The men worked like trojans, but it was most instantly apparent that the heavy I ders could not be drawn to the roof in ti to save the men in the tower. The poor lows rushed to the south side of the balci and swarmed down the line of hose. 1 men slipped down the smoking tube andtl it gave way. Wltfl this avenue 01 escape cut on mo r surged back to the north balcony. A n was made fast to the chimney, and a firon started to slip down to the roof, seventyfeet below. Twelve feet from the balci the rope met the flames and snapped, dc ing the poor fellows who clung to it to roof. The calmness of despair settled on men still in the balcony. To remain wt they were meant cremation ; to jump me to be dashed to pieces. Silent and grim little band hung over the side of their de *ra!p, and watohed their fellows strugg] hopelessly to raise the ladders. Ov<jr, unc and all about them, surged the fire. No man lost his head. None shrank back. N cried out. When every vestige of hope was gone, by one they dropped through the sea flames that surrounded them to the roof low. Strong men in the crowd sickened i turned away as the blue-clothed forms b through the air. Women fainted as the mangled boc bounded up after striking the roof. Sixt men jumped from the burning balcony, i as the last one sprang out, the tow completely enveloped in flames, tottered: fell with a crash. The. burning mass smas! through the roof, carrying with it the d< and wounded who hod not been dragged a place of safety. But the horror did not end here. 1 minutes after the fall of the tower the en roof was Ablaze. One hundred men were it 80 quickly did the fire spread that ladders on the east and south bI of the building were cut off ' only way of escape for the gall hundred was down a single ladder at north end of the building. The deeds heroism, of self-sacrifice and courage { formed in the few minutes that it took clear the roof will never be told. The able-bodied men rushed to save tt helpless fellows, who lay about with crui broken bodies, the result of the leap fr the tower. Every one who was not burie< the burning debris was lowered tothegroi by ropes or in strong arms. Then the b terad heroes sought the north ladder. About them surged the fire. Flames cui around their legs, stabbed at their faces j " ' 1 ? r.tt nnrl ai*aKpA I10K.eU UU LUWli UlUU.i'.auuoo aua ojoi/iv But hers, as in the tower, there was no c cry, no struggle for precedence, no cowa ice. Down the ladder they swarmed, twos and threes and on both sides. The I man had scarcely left the roof when it with a roar. The work of the hospital corps, the Colt bian Guard, and the World's Fair offloi was admirable. When it became appar that the Are would be serious, Colo Rice established fire lines, and, call out the full force of guards, placed a corc about the building to hold back the crow The United States regulars, the French r rinea and the sailors from the Spaaish ca vels were also called into service. Twenty thousand people saw the horr When the tower fell on the unfortunates the roof, the groan that went up seemed shake the skies. Army officers, whose fa never blanched in the face of death, cove: their eyes, turned away, and shudder Bearded men cried out. Women swoon and children stood transfixed with horror The Are was an intense hot one. Firem ' - * ? K..SI/I. guaras, ana wummou ujuui mo uu*,ui were prostrated by the heat. When the I had been burning an hour the World's F stables, to the south of the cold storage wa house, caught Are. Both buildings werecc pletely destroyed. By 4 o'clock the Are was under conti I and at 5 the melancholy work of searchi I the ruins for the bodies of the brave ir who were lost was commenced. The cold storage warehouse was not I any way a part of the Exposition. It v ' far from all th<# main buildings in the soui western oorner of the grounds, and v neveral rods below the Sixty-third street t Urance. The cold storage building had a oapac for 600 car loads of perishable pro\ Ions, with an ice-produoing plant, ci able of freezing 120 tons each day,'I sides a summer * skating-rink 180 fen lo \ and eighty-flve feet wide. It was perhaps I largest building on the grounds used foi private exhibit, and in it was some of t most valuable and recent inventions refrigeration. It was five stories hk of Romanesque design, with four c< ner towers shaped like the big cen: one in which the men were killed, the entrance was a massive arch, w eight Roman columns supporting it. T engine jooms, containing three 120-ton n chines, filled two of the Tories, andoneitt side of the main hall was a gallery intend to allow visitors to witness the entire proe< of artificial ice making. The loss oc t building and its contents is estimated 8GOO.OOO. TO EASE HIS MIND. Return of Money by a Consclenc Stricken Mau. A stranger eauea on secretary n. r. i wood of the (tarman Insurance Compai Roelnwtor, N. Y.. and asked to soothe bool He had made a similar visit two years a; and said then that ho thought the compa had paid a loss unjustly some years ago. i was allowed to inspect the books, and th ho paid Secretary Atwood forty $ 100 bil Baying that this was but a partial paymej He added that the original loss was abo half this sum. but he had figured intere He did not give his name, and the insurai man asked no questions. The number of recruits to be drawn Russia by conscription this year la fixed lmoerial mandate at 202*000. ? v *' - . a 11 THE NEWS EPITOMIZED^ Eastern and Middle States. The Chamber ot Commerce of New York rvr City, by an almost unanimous vote, domanded the repeal of the Sherman Silver law. Pbestdest Cleveland was confined to his room at Gray Cables, Buzzard's Bay, Mass., ip(l with an attack of rheumatism. A bow on a savings bank in Watortown, N. Y., was checked by speeches and a guarantee >ey from Governor Flower. ee* Neap.lt 100 cadets at West Point, N. Y., were irade violently siok by drinking milk from unclean cans. oa Sixty-foob freight cars were burned in lm" the yard of the New Haven Company at ,'er- New Haven. Conn. ige The dedication of a Greek Catholic led Church by his Eminence Bishop Nichols, of fl the Russian Greek Catholic Church, assisted by Neokpriest Alexander G. Poth. of San ght Franoisco : the Bev. Galartin, of Minneapo,ers lis. and the chaplains of the Russian wai bly ships now lying .in New York harbor, took ons place at Wilkeebarre, Penn. Twenty sailors I11' from the ships assisted in the sinking. .. The officers of the Russian warships in th? New York Harbor were the guests of General Butterfleld at his country home On the Hudtfi ? aQ As a precautionary measure many drug i^e importing houses of New York City began to I of insert the gold clause in their terms of sale. im lop South and West. t tuo Ewos 0. Biplet, cashier of the Galena (I1L) National Bank, committed suicide by shoot)r8 in? himself through the head while temporarrt" ily insane. QU_ " / .he D. S. Kbeedkb, his wife and four children, were murdered at Can4or, North Dakota, by lit. their hired man, Albert Baunbarger, his lck nephew. ind The caravels reached the World's Fair and gin were received with muoh ceremony. 8eat J. Millzk, the mulatto arrested at Qly SIkeston, Mo., and identified as the murderer er- of the daughters of John Bay, a farmer, was hanged at Bardweli, Ey., to a telegraph pole ray and his body afterward inoinerated by a ran frianzied mob. Seven thousand persons were on present. fha A wixd storm of terrific force, followed by " heavy rain, passed over the World's Pair, in. flioting considerable damage to the different J buildings and the exhibits stored therein, on Thibty persons were believed to have been iea drowned during a frightful storm which i to swept over the lake and city at Chicago at 5 i as o'clook p. m. The yacht Chesapeake was the blown over and four persons were drowned. Many small boats were capsized, their occu.ks, pants being thrown into th? water and many , to of them drowned. A black sloop yacht In ero which ten boys were enjoying a sail was misstme lQg after the storm and it was feared their ity. lives were lost al- William Waddell, his wife and four ohil? ad- dren, while in camp at Englewood, Kan., Ime awaiting the opening of the Cherokee strip, fel- were drowned by the flooding of their dugony out. |fve The Chamberlain Investment Company, of hen Denver, Col., the largest real estate concern in the West, has closed its doors. The liabilQen itles, direct and contingent, are $2,362,118 3Pe a nd assets $3,000,000. A whole section of prisoners attempted to escape at the House of Correction, Ionia, Mich. Three were killed. the Washington. the All seed purchased for the Agricultural tere Department will hereafter be brought direct ?nt from the grower. the a VallrtrrrafAno Part anri OAVftrA.1 Itith A * AOl A W AOMVnO?V?w ? ?? ? * ? |h? Indian reservations will be made by 8ecre[gj tary Hoke Smith before Congress meets, it a Advices at the Navy Department from one Hankow state that the United States steamship Monosacy. which went ashore on Sonone day Island, was got off without sertoua inof Jnry. he- StJuvEToa Geoboe W. Lroir, of the Port of ind New York, sent his resignation to President hot Cleveland. National banks during the last two ~~ months have increased their circulation nearly $9,000,003. N rer< The Treasury Department resumed the md purchase of silver bullion, buying 100,000 tied ounces at 0.72. jsd The records of the PostofQce Department 1 to show that during the first four months of the present administration, ended July 4, 1893, 'wo the total number of presidential postmasters lire appointed was 434. VTo guard thoroughly against any introducY10 tion of cholera into the United States, Surp,?8 geon-General Wyman, of the Marine Hos ? pltal Service, ha9 detailed a medical ^ inspector at London. >er-' ' Foreign. to The French Government has overawed the Paris rioters by an immense display of troops, teir The Infanta Eulalla has arrived at Madrid, 3"y Spain. She and Prince Antonio were met 'om ar the station by the Queen Regent and the 1 In infanta Isabella. She expressed herself as greatly pleased with the cordiality of her ll3" reception In the United States. .... These was renewed rioting in Paris; the d workin-men began to talk of a general strike; bitter speeches were made by mem/ bers of the Munioipal Council on the Government's action in dosing the Labor Exchange, by Thebe is a complete dearth of green fodast der in Hesse and Posen, Germany. Throughfell out a wide area of Central Germany cattle and horses have been killed for food because im- there was no fodder Tor them. In other parts lals of the country thousands of head of cattle ent have died of starvation. nel Mobe than fifty men were arrested in | ing Montreal, Canada, for trying to destroy the Ion Christian Endeavor Convention's tent. - Chancbllok voh Cajbivi has assured the " " German Kaiser that he is nowconfldont of a majority of from twenty-Ave to thirty votes o? in favor of the military Dili. oo The Parnellites deserted Oladstono and t0 supported two motions, which were lost, ces amending ol ause 9 of the Hom? Rale bill; rej one amendment provided for retaining the 6C1 full Irish representation at Westminster ; ed' the other for excluding Irish members ' entirely. en, ln? Ire wr THE FEUIT CROP. to ,m" Prospects in New England Bright, .0j( in New York Fair. la8 Reports received from all the fruit growing 1<3n sections indicate that the crop prospects in iu New England were exceedingly bright up to ras July l. Poaches will probably give the largth est yield in years. Apples are doing fairly ras W0n. in Maine, New Hampshire and Veria mont the truit season is exceedingly back " 1 *? ??.? ?aaaa warn, HUU IU Luaujr V.QOVO luoaviuirw..,, -r ity has boon a total failure. 'is- Reports covering all sections of New Sfork ?P- show a fairly good average orop prospect. be- Reports are convincing that if fruit growers ng would spray their orcnards a double yield the would be realized. r a be rf STARTED THE LOG JAM. )r A Locomotive Pulled Out the Key l>os und the Two-mile Mass Moved, 'he The big jam of logs at Carratunk Falls. ia" Me., was started a few day3 aifo. For thirty ie(I days the river drivers havo been working ou Ms it. The Somerset Railroad runs near the he river. A spur track was built close to the at bank and a powerful locomotive, with twoinch wire cable, pulled out the lasr key log. starting the jam. This jam was the largest ever hung up at the falls. It contained 35.000.000 feet of lumber and extended up the river two miles. Th3 work of moving the o- ;?.? Aio nno \t- nm iy, SILVER AND THE LATINS. ?3. TQ Italy, France, Belgium and Swltzcrny land to Protect Their Interests. He Negotiations an" proceeding botwean (?a Italy, France, Bal^ium and Switzerland for at' the protection of the Nation* coaiposing ( iut the Latin Union, iu consequence of India's 3t. action in regard to silver. It is believed that noue of tho members of the Union will withdraw from it. In Bern?, Switzerland, the minting of one-half, one *n and two franc pieces has been almost sus- 1 pendod. A few Ave franc pieces aro still boW coined. _ . i .r. y* Tqi ' V' ^ IflffA TOWNS M OUT. I A CYCLONE'S TERRIBLY DE- . v f STRUCTIVE WORK. ' Pomeroy Almost Totally Razed to the Ground?Scores of the Inhab- : j ltants Killed and Wounded?Beacue Work Among the Bulns?An Improvised Hospital. Pomeroy. a town of 900 Inhabitants In Calhoun County, Iowa, has been almost entirely destroyed by a tornado. Between fifty and 100 persons were killed, and nearly 200 were injured, many of them fatally. The utmost confusion followed the advent of the storm, and it was several hours before the .J condition of affairs there was known. A . . 'J soon 08 the extent of the disaster was learned, relief trains over the Illinois Gen- fl tral were sent oat with a corps of physiefans, tents and provisions. The town was in total darkness and the ' I streets were filled with the wreoks of hom?| I and business houses. The scenes were ap- I palling as men with lanterns went about la 1 the debris. In some instances entire families aSH were killed, the jnutilated.bodles being foond 1 in the ruins of their homes. The cries of the I Injured were heard on all sides aad the gen- 1 eral confusion was increased by the frenzied 1 behavior of the survivors who were separat- ] ed from friends or who had relatives in the wreoks. The work of rescue was Blow; and \ the train-load of help made little headway. The south half of the town was razed. '' y There was no place to care Ibrthe injured, :'yii, and a church which was just outside of the t ' > track of the storm was turned into a hoepitaL There the surgeons worked by the aid of : Jft. lanterns. The most seriously injured were stretched upon the long pews, wnile other* ' who needed surgical attention for less severs ( injuries were compelled to stand or lie upon the floor and await their turn. The dead **?3 were laid upon the ground in a vacant lot at .' the edge of the devastated district. Through the narrow aisles left between the dead bodies the survivors passed looking for lost onea. Ail telegraph communication was out off and trains could be run only to the edge of the town. The storm broke about 7 o'clock p. m. All day long the clouds were skurrying across V V the sky. An occasional shower would be followed by a hot burst of .sunshine. Just be- . fore dark great banks of black clouds massed ' in the southwest and in the west. Just be* .'.'I < fore 7 o'clock the two threatening piles ;V.v moved towards one another and then joined. A The clouds took on a green tint, whioh was \ pierced with the sun's rays for a moment, / Then darkness set in rapidly. Scarcely a ' t_: breeze stirred-the treatop* in the streets of Pomeroy. Those who were watching the ' phenomena say that a cloud-like column of ; Xjjfit smoke dropped to the ground and gathered : in strength as it advanjed towardu the town. They recognized it as a tornado and gave the alarm. Many sought shelter in cellars, and '.-'.'tiE? others mounted horees to flee from the path . of the coming destruction. There was a dash ' of hall, a blinding flash ot lightning, and ' deafening peals of thunder. Men and women ran wildly about the .. "'i'#? streets shouting and gesticulating. The tor- .,-.gg nado itruok the town at the northwest among the scattering houses in the out- tilrrfBjk skirts. Boots and shingles and sides of buildings were wrenched loose and were thrown about Moring to the more densely 7 populated district, the tornado leveled all before it. and leaving in its wake a cloud of . splinters and scores of wrecked homes. . Later particulars state that the tornado :\i "ji which passed over Pomeroy left fifty-three v r dead, seventy-five fatally injured and L50 -. with broken llmbe, cuts and bruises more or ,$yg less severe. The town of Pomeroy is a com- " ' ^ plete wreck. There is scarcely a house left 'r $ standing. About fifteen acres of debris con- .y-jljf %&t stitutQ now what was a thriving village. Splinters ore all that remain. Pomeroy is level the prairie. Scarcely a tree remains. Piles of broken timbers and occasional pieces of iurniture ' arealltbat can be found of what were onoe .. -.'-V the largest buildings in theplaoe. Twohun- - :'rv dred and fifty houses were in all destroyed," nn/4 fka IaqO Aft dtld Mil. 'A ' t ouu iUO UiUUOJ iUiW UU . iwm ? ??* WM- ;. -*T?? tents is placed at #200,000., y.?$ssHH Everywhere about Pomeroy next day were dead and dying people. A dosen men were digging graves in the burying around on the k hill just north of town, and tne one hearse of the village was kept busy carrying the victims of the storm to their last resting v1## place. The Intense heat made it impossible to >. keep the bodies of the dead, and those that \ were not claimed by relatives or friends and by them burled or taken away by noon ware placed in the graveyard by the officials. Forty graves were dug and filled with dead up to 9 o'olock on the evening after the storm passed, and at that hour the flitting lanterns in the cemetery showing plainly ' >that the work of burial was going on Still. Hundreds of willing hands dragged the dead and dying animals, with whloh the ground seemed to be literally strewn, to y V, points on the outskirts of the town, plied' them in big heaps, and oovered them withj the remains of the bouses and applied ther ' , torch. Fully a dozen of these strange bonfires were kept going all the afternoon. Whole families were in many instances wiped out by the tornado, and in houses thar contained all the way from four to eight persons not more than one escaped alive. Husbands have been left without wife or children, children are left orphans, and there are fifteen or more women in Pomeroy who have lost husbands and children. Several V . v-j little babies were found alive and well, but it has been impossible to find their parents. The National Banlc o! PomeroV wm mvlo . ' _ y the headqarters of the relief movemont. Here those willing to work or to act as nurses were assigned to the various hospitals, and here also provisions,'money; bed- " ding and olothlng were received, and all of inestj ntjcueaacios ruuou ui xrajMtujr. By 3 o'clock in the afternoon the office ot the bank was stacked clear to the ceiling with food and clothing, and boxes of each wera arriving on ever}- train. Governor Boles arrived at 4 o'clock and took charge of the whole affair. He first drove out over tbe ruins, then ho visited the hospitals and the morgue, consult- /, ,?i ed with those who had thus far directed things, and then issued a proclamation setting forth the needs of tbe sufferers and calling upon the people of Iowa to contribute liberally. Late reports from the counties of Cherokee. Buena Vista. Pocahontas and Calhoun, and the parts of Ida and 8ac Counties over whioh the tornado swept show that the loss of life is somewhera between one and two hundred, and that the damage to property runs up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. , Five entire families were blown away at Alta, Iowa. Mrs. Gordon was killed instantly by the wreck of her house, and nothing can be found of the family of seven. No trace can be found otEd Sargeant and family of five. They were supposed to be dead. It was One ot the most terrific cyclones ever known in that section. The width was about 1000yards. Two women were killed -/v and several injured six miles south of Cherokee. Ten were killed and several injured south of Aurelia; one killed and several injured near Storm Lake; nine killed and two injured south o? "Fonda. Only one of the Gordon family out of seven has been found. ' 1' It is reported four of the family of Burgess, near Aurelia, were killed. The loss of property is beyond estimation. _ BULLETS AT A PI0NI0. ? A Drunken Idiot After Shooting a Boy is Killed. While a score of excursionists were seated on the porch of Nick S'!henville's fishing station at Chef Menteur, twenty miles from New Orleans, La.. Rudolph Bienvenuo, a half Idiotic deaf mnte. whose drunken actions U?,l lfti< V*4a Aiantinn frAm flr?honwl|la'a house, flred two loads of buckshot into the party at a distance of flfty feet. Nona of the % shots took effect and Bionvenue moved away a<*ross the bridge spanning Chef Menteur. Raloading his gun. he walked back to the party and again flred upon it. Tony Schenvllle returned the Are, but failed to hit the mute. Bienvenue flred a fourth time, wounding Tony Sohenville. The seventeen-yearold brother of the wounded man caught up a weapon and flred twice at the mute. The sacond load took effect and killed him instantly. The body fell from the bridge into the Chef. Indianapolis (Ind.) Is In trouble. Six tiundrod thousand dollars' worth of bonds ^ fell due the other day and there was not sent in the treasury to meet them.