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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?
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'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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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. _
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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.