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VOL. XIXI PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1892. NO 37. 4
A TREMENDOUS WORD.
POWER AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THI
SINGLE WORD "SELAH."
Dr. Talaigo Sasys ''13ah" la No Scrip
tural Aclidout, at Unthinking Peonl
Suppose-riarouaiI It oll the Thunder
Iig Chariots of the Omni potent God.
BROOKLYN, Miy 2.-Rcv. Dr. Tal
mage today took for the subject of hi
sermon a single word of frequen:, occut
rence in the Bible and whose meanin
Is but little underitood. From It h
drew a profoundly impressive discriptioi
of the varied and majestic purposes o
certain parts of Scripture and a practica
lesson for Christians generally. Th
text was Psalms lxi, 4, "Selali."
The majority of Bible readtr- loo
upon this word of my text as of no in:
portance. They consider it a IUpei
finity, a incre fillitg in, a meningless ic
terjection, a uselusi ref rain, an undilne
echo. SelItli But I have to tell yo
that it is no Scriptural accident. It o(c
curs sev.entv-four nines in the book c
Psalms and three tiues in the book c
Habakkuk. You Ili ust not charge thi
pertfect book:wit,h ! evety-seven triviali
ties. SeAah! It is an enthroned word
It, according to au old writer, som,
words are battles, then this woid is
Marathon, a Therinopylte, a Sedan,
Waterloo. -It is a word decisive; somec
times for poetic beauty, sometimes fo
solemnity, sometimes for grandeur an
sometimes for eternal import. Throug
it roll the thundering chariots of th
O.mipoten t God.
I take this word] for my text becaus
I am so often asked whatis its meanios
or whether it has any menmn at all. I
has an ocean of meaning, from which
shall this morning dip up only four c
tive bucketftla. I will speak to you, a
tar as I have time. of the Selah of poet'
significance, the Selah of inter.aissiot
the Selah of emphasis and the Selah <
perpetuity.
Are you surprised that I speak of L
Selah of poetic siguiticance? Sure]
the God who sapphired the heavens an
made the earth a Iosebud of beauty, wit
oceans hanging to it like drops of mor,
ing dew, would not make a iible wiLl
out rhythm, without redolence, withot
blank verse. God knew that eventual]
the Bible would be i cad by great muajor
ty of young people, for in this world i
malaria and casualty an octogenarian
exceptional, and as thirty years i3 moi
than the average of hu nan life, if tl
Bible is to be a successful book it mu
be adapted to the young. IlIee tli
prosody of the Bible-the drana of Jol
the pastoral of Ruth, the epic of Judue
the dithyrambic ofi Iabakkuk, tl
threnody of Jeremiah, the lyric of So!
mon's song, the oratorio of the Apo
alypse, the id1, the strophe, and ani
strophe and the Sel,dh of the L'salns.
Wherever you find this word Selah
means that you are to rouse up to gre
stanza, that you are to open your so
to great analogies, that you are to spret,
the wing of your imagination for gre:
flight. "I answered thee In the se: r
place of thunder. I proved thee at tLi
waters of' Meribah. Selah.'' "Ti
earth and all the inhabitants thereof a
dissolved. I bear up the pillars of i
Selab.'" "Who is this king of glor
The Lord of host, lie is the king
glory. Se'ah." "Thou shalt compa
me about with songs of deliveranI
Selah." "Though the waters therc
roar and be troublcd, thouAh the mou
tains shake with the swelling thiere0
Selh. "'The Lord of hosts is with u
the God of Jacob is our ref uge. Selah.
"Thou hast given a banner to them thi
fear thee, that it may he displ.tyed b,
cause of the truth Selah.'' "I1 wi
hide und(er thle covert of' thy wing
Se'ah." "C), God, when thou wente
forth before thy peopile, when thou (lid
march through the wilderness. Selah.
Wherever you find this wordl It is
signal of warning hung out to tell yt
to stand off the track while the rush ii
Y train goes by with its imperial passel
gers. Poetic word, charged with sunri:
and sunset,4and temn pest and earl hiquak
and resurrect,ions and millenniums,
Next I come to speak of the Selah
intermission. Gesenius, Th'luck, iIe
getenberg and other writers ag'ree
saying t,hat this word Selah nmeanis
rest in music; what the Greeks call
diapsalma, a pauseH(, a halt.in t,he eoleni
march of cautillatiin.
Every musicIan knows the imn port an
of it. If you ever saw Julhena, the gre
musical leader, stand before live thou
aud singers and pilayers ' .m instr
ments, and with onie stroke of' his b
ton smite t,be multitudinous haflelul.
into silence, and then, soon after vii
another stitoke of his b.aton rouse up tI
full orchestra to a ureaL, outbturst. of hn
mony, then you kno>w the miighty elre
of' a musical pause. 10 g.ives miot
power to what went, before; 1I, gives m
9 power to what is to come af ter. S.) (<
thrusts t,he Selah into his Bible antd in
our lives, coinpelling us to stop) at
think, stop and( consider, stop amnd ai
mire, stop and pray, stop and irepeu
stop and be sick, stop) and( die. It is ni
the great number o1 times that we rei
the Bible through that makes us intel
gent'in the Scriptures. We must. paust
What though it t ake an mr' laor oi
word? WVhat though it tak~ ia week I
* one verse? What th,ough it, ihough
take a year for one chapter? We nmu
pause and measure the height, t
depth, the length, t.he bieadtht, the ml
-verse, the eteruity of mecaning ini 0
verse.
.1 should like to see somec one H
around one little adverb) in the Bile,
little adverb of two letteis, "hring 4i
4 Testament passage, "God so loved
world." August.ine made a long paut
after the verse "Putt ye on the La
Jesus Christ," andl it converted hil
Matthew Henry made a long pause
ter the v"rac, "Open thou my lips, al
my.mouth shall show forth thy praise
and it converted him. WillIam Cowl:
made a long pause after the v'erse, "1I
ing freely juistified lby his grace," andC
converted him. When Uil tells
seventy-seven t,imee meditatively
pause In reading two of the oooks of t
Bible, he leaves to our common sen
to decide how e.An we should pause
reading the other sixty-four books of the
Bible.
We must pause and ask for more
light. We must pause and weep over
our sius. We must pause and absorb
the strength of one promise. I some
times hear people boasting about how
many times they have read the Bible
through, when they seem to know no
o more aout It than a passenger would
know about the state of Pennsylvania
who should go through it in a St. Louis
lightning express train and in a Pullman
sleeper, the two characteristics of the
journey, velocity and somnolence. It is
not the number of times you go through
the Bible, but the number of times the
i Bible goes through you. Pausc; reflect.
1 Selah.
So also on the scroll or your life and
I mind. We go rushing on, in the song
e of out prosperity, from note of joy to
note of joy, and it is a long drawn out
k legato, and tve become indifferent and
iunappreiiative, whensuddenly we come
.upon i blank in the muslc. There is
nothing between those bars. A. pause.
God will fill it up with a slekb-d, or a
commercial disaster, or a grave. But,
thumk God, it Is not a breaking down; it
is only a pause. It helps us to appre
elate the lessings that are gone; it gives
us higher appreciation of the blessings
that are to conic.
The Selah of llabakkuk and David is
a dividing line between two anthems.
D David begins his book with the words,
L "Blessed Is the man," and after seven
ty-!our Selahs, he closes his book with
r the words, "Praise ye the Lord." So
El there are mercies behind us. It is good
b for us that God halts us In our fortunes,
and halts us with physical disti ess, and
halt us at the graves of our dead. More
e than once you and I have been halted
by such a Selah. You wrung your
hands and said: "I can't see any sense
in this Providence; I can't see why
r God gave me that child, if he is so soon
o uoing to take it away. Oh, my desolate
e home. Oh, my broken heart!" You
, could not understand it. But it was not
j a Selah of overthrow. It gave you grea
ter appreciation of the blessings that
e have gone; it will give you greater ap.
y preciNtIon of the blessings that will
d come.
h When the iuguenots were being
. very much persecuted in France, a
father and mother were obliged to Ily
it fromn the country, leaving their child
in the possessioni of a comparativc
y stranger. They did not know whethei
they would ever return, or, returning
if they would be able to recognize tbeii
Schild. for by that time she might b(
e grown. rhe mother was almost fren
ie zied at the thought of leaving the child
t and then, even if coming back again
e not being able to know her. Befor4
they left., the father drew his sword an(
he marked the wrist of that child wit[
e a deep cut. It must have been a grea
D. exigency to make a father do that.
D- Y ears of absence passed on, and afte
- awhile the parents returned and thei
'irstanxiety was to find their lost child
They looked up and down the land, ex
it aminin": the wrists of the young peo
it pie, when lo! after awhile the fathei
a ioiuind a maiden with a scar upon hei
d wrist. She knew him not, but lie knem
it her. Aid oh, the joy of the reunion
At So it is now. "Whom the Lord lovett
ie he chasteneth." Ile cutteth, lie mark
le eth, and when lie comes to claim hii
ce own the Lord will know them that ar
t his; know them by the scar of theil
.2 trouble, know them by the stroke ol
their desolation.
Oh, it is good that the Lord some
s times hafts us. David says: "Itisgooc
that I Itave been aillicted. Ilefore ]
was Milic ed I went astray, but noii
- have I kept thy word." Indeed, wf
-C inust~ all soon stop). Scientists havi
s, imiproved humnan longevity, but nonw
" of them have proposed to make terrent
it life perpetual. But the Gospel makes
3. death only a Selah between two beati
11 tuides-i'etween dying triumph on 01u4
s, side of the grave and celestial escort. or:
the other side of the grave. Going oul
of this ii fe, to the unprepared, is a greal
,,horror.
"Give me more laudanum," said dy
a in,g Mirabeau; "give me more laud
u~ anum, that I may not think of eternits
gand what is to come." And dyini
Li- Ilobbes said, "1 leave my body to thi
Ie grave an d my soul to the great perhaps.'
e, It was ihe discord of an infidel's lift
break ing down Into the jargon of de
ol spair; but the Gospel makes the deatl
u. of the Christian ai Selaht between re
in demiptioni and enthronement. "Alimosl
a well ," s-u d dyiing Richard Baxter; "al
amost well." "Play those notes ove:
m again-t hose notes which have been S<
great a delight and solace to me," salk
the (lying Christian Mozart. "Noni
se but Christ, none but Christ," excilme<
it, dying Laiiibert.
s. Richard Cameron, the Scotch coven
n. anter, wvent Into the battle three time
a- praying: "Lord, spare the green an
Stake the ripe. Trhis is the day I hay
ilonged for. This is the day 1 shall ge
Smy crown. Come, let us fight It to Lh
rlast. l'orward!" So you see there i
only a shiort p)ause, a Selah of intermis
et sion, bietween dying consolations o:
i( the one side andl overtepping rapture
re On the other.
to My flesh shall slumber in the ground
TIillI tie last trumpet's joyful sound;
Th'len burst the chains wIth sweet surprise
And in my Saviour's Image rise.
I next speak of the Selah of empha
j sis. Ewaild, the German orientalls
.i and theologian, says that this wvorlt
means to ascend; aiid wherever you
find1( It, hie says, you must look after th<
m'iIodnIiat.ion of the voice, and you mus
Sput more f orce Into your utterance. I
is. a. Selah of emphasis. Ah! my friends
t you and I need to correct our eimphasie
CWi' puit toou much emphasis on thi:
n- world and niot enough on God and th,
ne next world. People thliik these thhite
air(oului us are so impiiortairlt, the thingi
ulof the ni xt are iiot wort4iy of our con
sideIraitioni.
, 'I'he iirst need for some of us Is t4
nie change our empih)asisI. Look at Wretch
:* edness on a throne. Napoleon, whlul
lie yet emperor oft France. salt down de
se jected, lis hianids ov'er his tace. A 1a4
rdcaine in with a tray of food and said
ui. "Eat, it will (10 you good." T1he enm
Al- peror looked up anid said: "You ar
5d irom the country ?" 'Thle lad replies
,"' "Y es," "Your father hans a cottage an
'.r a few acres of grounid?" "Yes.
e. "There Is happiness," saidl the dejectE
it emperor. Ah! Napoleoii never put th
us emphasis In the right place until hi
to On thieother hand, look at Satisfat
he tion amid the worst earthly disadvar
seLage. "I never saw unitil 1 was blind
In sma a C..atn- m. .IDOO kn
what contentment was while I had m,
eyesight as I know what content i
now that I have lost my eyesight.
afllrm, though few would credit it, tha
I % ould not exchange my present posi
tion and circumstances for my circum
stances before I lost my eyesight.
That man put the emphasis in the righ
place. We want to put less stress upoj
this world and more stress upon ou
God as our everlasting port.ion.
David had found out the nothingnes
of this world and the all sulliciency o
God. Notice how he interjects th
Selahs. "Trust in the Lord at al
times; 3e people, pour out your hear
before him. God is a refuge for uf
Selah." "Blessed be the Lord who dail
loads us with benefits, even the God 0
our salvation. Selah." "The Lord shal
count when he writeth up the peopl
that this man was born there. Selah.
Let the world have its honors and it
riches and its pomp. Let me have th
Lord for my light, my peace, my foi
tress, my pardon, my hope,.my heaver
What sinners value I resign;
Lord!'tis enough that thou art mine.
I shall behold thy blissful face,
And stand complete in righteousines.
This world is all an empty show.
But the bright world to which I go
Hath joys substantial and sincere;
When shall I wake and find me there?
0 glorious hour! 0 blest abode!
I shall be near and like my God,
And sin and sense no more control
The endless pleasures of my soul.
But when I speak of the Selah of ei
phasis 1 must notice it is a startling
dramatic emphasis. It has in it L1
hark! the hist! of the drama. Tht
wakening and arousing emphasis %
who preach c r iistruct need to u.
more frequently. The sleepiest aud
ences in the world are religious and
ences.
You Sabbath school teachers oug
to have more of the dramatic elemer
in your instructions. By graphic Scril
ture scene, by anecdote, by descriptiv
gesture, by impersonation, urge you
classes to right action. We want i
all our schools and colleges and piayf
meetings, and in all our attempts a
reform, and in all our churches, to haN
less of the style didactic and more
the style dramatic.
Fifty essays about the sorrows of 11
poor could not affect me as a litt
drama of accident and suffering I sa
one slippery morning in the streets <
Philadelphia. Just ahead of me was
lad, wretched in apparel, his limb au
putated at the knee; from the pallor 4
the boy's cheek the amputation n4
long before. lie had a package 4
broken food under his arm-food I
had begged, 1 suppose, at the doors. .
he passed on over the slippery pay
ment cautiously and carefully, I stea
led him until his crutch slipped and I
fell. I helped him up as well as I coul
gathered up the fragments of the pac
age as well as I could, put them unt
one arm and the crutch under the oth
arm, but when I saw the blood rt
down his pale cheek I was complete
overcome. Fifty essays about the su
fering of the poor could not touch oi
like that little drama of accident ar
suffering.
Oh, we want in all our different d
partments of usefulness-and I addre
hundreds of people who are trying 1
do good-we want more of tha drain
tic element and less of the didacti
The tendency in this day is to drot
religion, to whine religion, to cant r
ligion, to moan religion, to croak relil
ion, to sepulchrize religion, when v
ought to present it in animated ar
spectacular manner.
Sabbath morning by Sabbath mor
ing I address many theological studeni
who are preparing for the ministr
They come in here from the differer
institutions. I say to them this mnor
lug: If you will go home anti look ove
the history of the church you will fin
that those men have brought moi
souls to Christ who have been drama
10. Rowland ill, diramatic; Thomn:
Chalmers, dramatic; Thomas Guthri
dramatic; John Knox, dramatic; ilobei
McCheyne, dramatic; Christmas E van
dramatic; George WVhiteiid, dramatil
Robert Ilall, dramatic; Robert SoutL
.dramatic; Fenelon, dramatic; .Job
Mason, dramatic; Dr. Nott, dramati<
When you get into the "ninistry, if yc
attempt to culture that element at
try to wield it for God, you will met
with mighty rebuff and caricature, at
ecclesiastical council will take yoi
case in charge, and they will try to pI
you down, but the God who starts vo
will help you through, and great 'wi
be the eternal rewards for time assidt
ouis and the plucky.
What we want, ministers and Ias
men, is to get our sermons and our ei
hortations aiid our prayers out of tI
3 old rut. I see a great deal of discu
sion in the religious papers about wi
people do not come to church. Th4
.do not come because they are not Il
terestedi. The old hackneyed reli gli
i; phrases that come movimig dow
Sthrough the centurite will never arre:
the masses. What we want to-day, yc
a In your sphere and I Ia my sphere,
to freshen up. People do not want
their sermons the sham flowers bongl
at the millinery shop, but the japoi
a cas wet with the morning dew; nor t]
heavy bones of extinct megatheriu
of past ages, but the living reinde
caught last Augnst at the edge
Schiroon lake.
SWe want to drive out the drows
and the prosaic, and the tedious, at
the hnmdrum, and introduce LI
t brightness and viva city and the ho
sarcasm, and the sanctified wit, ai
the epigrammuatic power and the bloc
red earnestness, and thme lire of rel
glous zeal, and 1 do not know of at
t way of doing it as well as through LI
,dramatic. Attention! Behold! iIar]
.Selah!
Next I speak of the Selah of perp(
t itiy. The Targum, which is the Bit>
in in Chialdee, renders this word of rr
text "forever." Many writers agree
believing and stating that one meal
ing of this word Is "forever." in thi
very verse from wnich I Lake may Le:
-Selah means that only poetic signil
a cance and intermission and omphasi
- but It meamns eternal reverberation
I forever! God's government foreve
,God's goodness forever, the gladness
-the righteous forever. Of course y<
B andl I have niot surveyor's chain wit
, enough links to measure that donmal
.1 or meaning,
in this world we must build ever;
I thing on a small scale. A hundre
e years are a great while. A tower II
e hunndred feet is a great height. A jou
ney four thousand miles is very Ioni
-But eternmty! If the archangel hi
-not strength of wing to fly acrors
"but flutters and drops like a woundi
r seagullt there is no need of our tryir
r in the small shallow of human thought
i to voyage across it.
[ A skeptic desiring to show his con
t tempt for the passing years, and to
- show that he could build enduringly
- had his own sepulcher made of the
" finest and the hardest marble, and
t then he had put oii the door the words,
i "For time aud for eternity;" but it so
r happened that the seed of a tree some
how got into an unseen crevice of the
s marble. That seed grew and enlarged
f until it became a tree and split the
e marble to pieces. There can he no
1 eternalization of anything earthly.
t But forever! Will you arid I live as
i. long as that? We are apt to think of
y the grave as the terminus. We are
f apt to think of the lieUrse as our last
.1 vehicle. We are apt to think of seven
n ty or eighty or ninety years, and then
" a cessation.
s Instead of that we find the marble
e slab of the tomb is only a milestone,
- marking the first mile, and that the
L. great jouruey is beyond. We have
only time enough in this world to put
on the sandals and to clasp our girdle
and to pick up our staff. We take our
first step from cradle to grave, and
then we open the door and start-great
God, whither ? The clock strikes the
passing away of time, but not the pas
sing away of eternity. Measureless,
measureless! This Selah of perpetuity
makes earthly inequalities so insigniti
cant, the difference between scepter
and needle, between Alhambra and
hut, between chariot and cart, between
. throne an d curbstone, between Axmin
a ster and bare floor, between satin and
e sackcloth, very trivial.
it This Selah of perpetuity makes our
,e getting ready so important. For such
le prolongation of travel what outfit of
i. guide books, of passports and of escort!
I. Are we putting out on a desert, simoon
swept and ghoul haunted, or into re
it gions of sun lighted and spray sprinkled
it gardens? Will It be Elvsium or Ge
>. henna? Once started in the world, we
'e cannot stop. The current is so swift
ir that once in no oar can resist it, no
n helm can steer out of it, no herculean
-r or titanic arm can batlle it. Hark to
it the long resounding echo "forever!"
-e Oh, wake up to the interest of your
)f deathless spirit! Strike out for heaven.
Rouse ye, men and women for whom
ke Jesus died. Selah! Selab! Foreverl
le Forever!
w
)f SPEEDY VENGEANCE.
a
I- The Murders of Sauuders Killed by a
)t Sherift'd PoHNO.
)f JACKsONVILLE, Fla.,. May 25.-A
le Palatka special says: At about 12:30 to
t8 day, a hatless negro staggered into the
e- court house and said: "Come to Buffalc
L Bluff-robbers." Deputy Sheriff Dy
1e son aroused his posse and a special
d, train soon left with them.
At 11:30 a. m., George Wurt z and F
er I[. Wigg, a guard placed by the sheritf's
er posse at, Buffalo Bluff bridge, saw thre
mil men coming from the South on th(
ly railroad track. As the first passe(
f- three feet ahead of the others th(
le guards called "1ands up!" and the first
id one obeyed. The second and third
drew their revolvers and the guardE
e- knew that the desperate robbers were
s facing them. The firing was begun by
tO the robbers and a bullet grazed Wigg,
a- Wurtz fired his shotgun loaded with
c- buckshot and Williams fell. 'T-hie man
ie in advance then ran toward Palatka
e- the other man ran backward and was
K shot in the leg by Wurtz.
re An engine load of young men coin -
d prised a special, and among them was
Dr. Benjamin E. Morgan and Mr. Wil
lard of the express company. This
t special now arrived on the scene. The
. big man of the robbers had taken to
the swamp. They pursued hiu and
suddenly a ball ripped thirough l)r.
~r Morgan's vest., lie saw the robber be
hI ind a fallen tree and firedf a shotgun
it loaded with buckshot and Saunders's
- murderer had met his doom. Both
iS bodies were laid on the bridge andl af
terwards brought into town on a pass.
At ing freight train. In the car lay the
s ghastly bodies, accompanied by the
y guards who had shot Williams, and t>y
'A Superintendent Myer, who hlappened at
n the bridge about the time ot the shoot.
-lig.
u The big murderer's thoughts, as lie
d heard the guards coming an:: knew that
ihe was ab ou tto die, are interesting.
d They were written on the back of' a
"' map, as the culprit lay behind a tree.
it "D)ear mother: The time has come
Uthat you and I shall part, and1 I hope
that you will not grieve after me, for I
have no fear. [ would write more, but
I have no time. Kiss the children for
V- me, and tell them to do better than I
C' have done, and they wfill live longer
ie than I have. Farewell, dear mother.
B- "Sendl this to Susan Bedgood, Aribi.
iY Dooley County. Ga. I never expect to
Ygive up a thinir, and I ask you to send
me home at A ribi, Ga. So with this I
iS close forever. Please send my body to
n~ Aribi, Ga."
st The' face of the murderer of Saunders
was covered with blood and blackened
is wih poder.Before he died he said
wth being desperately wounded he
it shot himself in the mouth with his pis
3- tol. A posse with (deer-hounds is pur
ie suing the other man, and Superintend-.
y tMyrs and a party are going on a
er special train to their assistance. His
cap)ture is aln>ost certain.
huffalo bridge is on St. .John's Ilver,
y, five miles south of Palatka.
id -
me Confederate Monumnent.
ly KNOXVILL.:, May 19.--Today has
id been generally observed as Con federate
d decoration day. This afternoon a pro.
.i- cession nearly a mile long mo'.2r
LY through the principal streets of the
1e city to the Confederate cemeterv. It
! had been intendlerl to ur;veil dhe ihonu
mnent, but the high wind of last night
t- ble w t he coverings away, ;rd uhie beau
le tifuil statute stood uin veiled in all of
Iy its loveliness. I t is com posedl of ai
a base, with proper inscriptions, and ai
-solid column thirty live feet high, on]
IS top of which stands a Con fereraite vet
Ct eran at parade rest. TFhe money to
ti- erect the monument was raise<d b,y the
5, Ladies' Memuorial Society of Anox.
- villo. Around the base of the mionu
r, ment the bodies of 1,600) Confederate
at soldiers are buried. At the cemetery
un United states Senator Bate de' ivared
han address, and Gen. E. Kirby Smith
n paId a beautiful tribute to thc noble
work of the women ot the South dur
V- Iig the war and since.
eKilled for Fity Coun.
r- RIUIIMONi), VA., May 20.--A JBig
i. Stone Gap, Va., special says that in a
is dispute of about lifty cents at a game
t, of cards John IIall, a desperado, shot
Mand killed his brother. Tihe murderei
ig escaped across the Kentuctky lnn.
TILE WESTERN DELUGE.
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11
A CONTINUED STORY CF DEVASTA- N
TION AND DEATH. ti
b
The Entire Country Iletween St. Louii 1
0
and Now OrleansThreatoned with Inun
datlon--The Crescent City li Groat, Dnan- D
i
ger.
Sioux Crry, la., May 19.-At the or
dinary stage of water the Floyd liver t
is as insignificant a stream as ever 1
meandered in pastoral insignificance. t
BMit, swollen by the continued rains d
until its never well-defined banks were M
obliterated, it was in poor condition to 81
carry away the immense flood of water
i hich fell in the cloudburst. d
A wave moving as a solid wall of c
water swept down the narrow valley 9
of the stream. The Floyd flows through a
the centre of Sioux City, and along its 1
banks are the homes of thousands. To L
these the flood brought death and de- f
molition of their homes. One million :
dollars will not cover the loss by flood
to this city alone. The water in Floyd
River receded rapidly last night, but s
today is still outside of its banks, and
a considerable portion of the bottom is
still covered, but to no great depth, for I
the most part.
The scene which is disclosed by the 'l
recession of the flood is one which beg
gars description. Throughout the
flooded district it is one story of de- i
struction and damage. The flood at t
its hight extended from Court street to l
the Floyd bluffs, and from the suburb
of Lynn to Lhe Missouri river. This t
comprises a district four miles long
and a mile and a half wide. For a dis
tance of a mile and a half above the I
mouth of the Floyd the bottom is t
densely populated. A large portion of E
the inhabitants are poor people, who C
are employes of packing houses, rail- I
roads, etc. There are a great many re- t
tail shops throughout this region.
There is a confused scene of desola
tion. At the height of the flood the
current struck straight through the
residence streets. Among those near
est to the river scores of dwellings
were swept from their foundations and
carried long distances and either i
smashed or turned bottom side up. It
is no uncommon sight to see a dwell
ing turned over on its side or root.
Many two-story buildings were swept
away. The buildings which are twist
ed, or carried short distances, are in
numerable. It must be remembered
that over all this area, for six or eight
streets from the river, the water was
far above second story windows, with
a swift current and the wind blowing
a hurricane.
Every where, fences, outhouses, side
walks, wooden pavements, railroad tit s
and timbers are scattered about among
the contorted and overturned dwell
ings. Many of the streets are paved
with cedar blocks, and the water lifted
hundreds of thousands of them and car
ried them away. In some places there
are immense imasses of debris piled on
top of houses. Several thousand peo
pie closely followed the reccding flood
to search for their homes and missing
ones. Only a few on the outer edge of
the flood will be able to occupy their
hoines at present. The streets are an
impassable mnire. Dooryards are filled
with mnud and drift. What houses are
not wrecked and carried a way will he
almost uninhabitable. Furniture is
destroyed and many things in the
houses lost.
The rescuing parties are hard at work
today. One lady named Mrs. Keenl#-y,
aged sixty-seven, was found it) to her
c1in in water at7:30 this morning. She
ha~d put a trunk on a table and sat on
it fc r twenty-four hours. She will re
cover.
Bloats arec plying today over the floodl
(ed territory, sear2hinig the houses re
mainming for sick andi dead pleople and
brmnging to shore the valuables of their
poor occupants.
TIhe water in the stream has fallen
six feet, and by night it is hoped a
large part of the flooded district may
be out of water. A public meeting
was held at the court house last even
ing, which was attended by all the:
wealthy men of the city. Committees
of wvorkers were appointed for all feat-]
uires of relief, and sutlicient money was
subscri bed to meet i mmediate necessi -
ties.
According to the latest information
the flood has been eveni more disastrous
in its results than was at first antici
piatedl. Th'le estiinates as to the loss of
life vary from sixty to one hundred.
No list can be given of the (leard. In
fact, the terrifled people have sought
ref uge in so many quarters that it is1
impossible to exactly figure what their
nuimber on the death roll will be.
At the manufacturing suburbs of
Leeds, directly in the Floyd valley, nine
persoins are known to lbe drowned.
Four were dlrowned at Springdale, just
below Leeds. Observers on the high
bridge counted fifteen bodios that s wept
under it. One man attempted to wade
out, carrying two children, but was
struzk by a floating timber and was so<
hurt that lhe dropped one. Matt Roe,<
an old sailor, sav-ed the lives of twenty
eight piersonb Mrs. E. E. WVst was
swept away and separated from her lit
tie fIve year old girl, who was diowned.
A woman who managedi to w&.dle to a
box car was seizedi with labor pain and
gave birth to a child and two hours ha
ter was rescued. Aiwoman namedl Ilinm
ton and three children were drowned
in their own house. Two S;wedlish <
Itamilies were swept away and drowned l
before rescuers could reach them. The,
gas works and electric light plant are
under water and the city was in dark
netss last night.
Not less than sevenit'-hive houses
have been carried into thle streets or
into the river, and it is estimated that
tue foundations and contents of 5>00 are
ruinedl. .N ellie Westshield, Mrs Louise
h orner andl two children aire khown to
be lost, but so great is the con fusion
and excitement that it is almost im
p)ossible to obtain anything definite re
garding the loss of life.
ALAIMIlNG OUTLOOR AT NEW OIltLEANS.
NEW ORILEANS, May 19-The river
s now over seventeet; feet above low
water mark, and has reached the high
est point ever known. Several streets
in the city are overflowed. Tihe
.wharves are all under several inches of
water. The Bonnett Carre crevasse is
nearly 400 feet wide, arnd the engineers
claim that it is impossible to close it
The w ater is encroaching upon Kenner
ville, ten miles above the city. Tihe
lake also shows signs of the crevasse
water, and is steadily rising. The city
omniialsar rat work1 rasing th levees
long the old and new basin to protect
io rear portion of the city from over
ow. All traflic on the Mississippi
rilley road has been su,peided.
Below the city reports come in today
iat the lavees are giving away. Two
reaks occurred last ni-ht at IHarlem.
'he crevasse at I lappy Point. has now
btained a width ot forty feet and at
toney's place the crevasse is wideniig.
'he damage so far from all crevasses
i the St ate has reached the sum of
2,000,000. The situation is gloomy.
MADISON, 3M., UNDEi1 WATER.
ST. Louis, May 19.--At 10 o'clock
bits morning the water broke over the
.vee in the town of Madison and in
wo hours the strcets were flooded to a
epth of four feet. The inhabitants
tere forced to leave their homes and
eck shelter on higher ground.
The people who were forced to aban
on their homes in the lowlands adj:a.
ent to East St. Lo'iis are already be
ining to feel the pangs of hunger, and
amine is now t hreateni ng. Wagons
aded with meat and breadstids has
een sent to them. Reports received
rom Alton state that the city is com
iletely cut otT from railway traliu.
Che river at St. Loui-i steadil v rose to
lay.
ERIOUs IN TlE ExTItI:3IE A' K+ANSAS
CITY.
KANSAS CITV, Mo., May IO.-The
ilissouri river is on a regular rampage
gain. It rose a foot and a half today.
'he Kaw is also rising rapidly here
,nd above. The rise at Manhattan
vas six and a half feet. All advices
rom the uper Missouri show a con
inued rise there. Great damage has
ieen done at Plattsinouth and Miners
'ille, Neb. In Kansas City the situa
ion is serious in the extreme.
Till WOUST YET TO COME.
ST. LOUIs, May I9.- -Midnight.-The
veather report shows that a rise of
hree feet is coming down the Missis
ippi and Missouri rivers. This will
ause the river here to rise one foot
vithin a few days. This iueans that
lie entire country from here to New
rleans will be flooded, as the levees
vill not be able to stand so great a boly
>f water.
ALEXANDRiA, IA., FLOODEID.
Kl{u0K:i, la., May 19.-The Egyptian
evee at Alexandria, on the Missouri
iide of the river, broke early this inorn
lg and the town and thousands of
xcres of tertile land are covered with
wvater.
Canti,atign Mtuetings'.
COLUMIA, S. C., May I8.-The Stat
Democratic Executive Committee helt!
a meeting last night at Carolina N
tioiial Bank. Over half of the mnem
bers were pre.sent. Chairmaii I rby lire
sided.
The following prograinme for mcani
paign speeches was adoptt-d:
.larnwell, ,lune 14.
Ilaipton. .J1une 15.
Bvaufort, ,Juno Wi.
Colleton, Jime 17.
Charleston, .1 te 21.
Ierkeley,,lune 22.
\'.'%iamuYsburg,.J,iine 23.
Georgetown, , une 21.
Ilorry, ,June 27.
Marimn, ,tine 29.
Florence, Juno :10.
)arlington,.ily 1.
Rtichland, .uy.1.
Oranigouirg, .uly 5.
Ai ke n, J uly 1).
Edgefield, July 7.
Lexington, ,iuly 8.
Clarcuilon, .)lily 19.
Sumter, Jl uly 211.
Marlboro, ,uly 21.
Cliesterfield. .1uly 23.
Kershaw, ,lily 2i.
Lancaster, .lily 2S.
('hester, ,1July 30).
l"airlield, August 2.
Un ion. Auiguist. -1
G reenville, August 9.
P ickens, AuguIst 10,)
Oconee. A ugust 11.
Anderson, A tigust, 12.
AX bbleville, August 1.
Newberry, August 18.
Laurenrs, August 20.
'Thils programnte of meetings was re
ferred to l)r. P'ope, New berrv, (Gen..J.
WV. Gray, G reenille, and Mir.'V. ('. W i
loughby, Wiliatuisburg. 'i'te dlate for
Miarlboro is not satisfactory as a big
L,on federate ritiIohn will be hieldl in
llennettaville ont the dlay ainited for
the campaign meeting. Th'le conummit.
Lee wvill change this dat e andI will make
muchu other changes as may be n(ces
tary.
Th'ie Execuitivye Cominilttee has ar
ranged so that the candlida~tes may have
1breathing spell. There will be an ini
Lermission of eleven (lays betweeni the
meetings at L4exinigton anid Clarendon.
I'his resting spueli will refresh and rein
vigorate the candidates.
WVeli batid, D)r. MUyt.y.
(IMAJIAW, NEn , Mav 18.--In the
Slethiodist Episcopal GIeneral Confer
mnco yesterday the committee on the
utate of the Chiurch brouught in a report
:alli[ng upjoni thim G overnmzient, State
>tlicials, the Methodist Elpiscopatl
Jhurchm and :all good citizens "'to arise
n their miighit arnd abol01ish the indigni.
,ie's andl outrages that are put upon01
~olored p)eopleC andl all white people
vho Jove to work for tihe elevation of
hie colored race ini the Southern
tates."
Tihe resolution dlechtired that the
~oloredl ple(il were treated shamefully
>n railway trains andl at hotels, and in
every way. They were shot (town, it
wvas said , like dogs, anid the law of the
and( was t rampied upo b)iiiy the people
whio diespised the colored race. 'The
resolution was the signal fot tremnen
louis cheering. D)r. O)neal, D)r. P'ayne
mnd others meade' vehemtent speeches
2alling upon thle Methodist Church tc
stanid iirmily for the rights of the col
ared race.
D)r. Myley advised the Conference t<
be moderate in the language employed
"We are not p)erfect ourselves, breth
ren, except in wvords," saidl Dr. Myley
The report was adopted by a rising
vote, every delegate ini the Conferenci
rising to his feet.
Great ital,iet Meeting.
PIIILADELPIIIA, Pa., May 19.-Ti
sesslins of the National lBaptist Con
gress opened lhere thIs e."ening in thi
First Baptist Church, and will con
tinue for eleven days. T[he conigress lI
one of the largest and most lmnportant
religious gatherings that hias been hek
in this city for a long time. In con
nection with the congress the anniver
sary and annual sessions of the differ
ent Baptist societies will also be beld.
TRUE TO THEIR TRUST.
TRAIN ROBBERS FOILED BY GALLANT
EXPRESSMEN.
A 'ip,erate IaFight. In& a% Car---Moshenger
sai Agent Unarnied Grappi e Two De
poratdoos With 2Mvolvora-- One Man
11lti mi Another Woundel.
.JAlStNV I L-:, Fl,A., MAy 21.
Tic north bound train, No. 14, on the
Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West rail
road, was held up at a lonely hammock
station live miles south of Sandford at
5 o'clock this m->rning by to ir masked
robbers, who, in n desperate attempt, to
secure the monies o. the Southern Ex
press coptany, killed Express Messen
ger Saunders and badly wounded Solicit
ing Auent .1. M. Cox. The train was
stopped by the wavin!g of a white sta
tion lantern. Two robbets jumped on
each side of the engine and compelled
the engineer and fireman at the muzzles
of revolvers to run down a trestle 200
yards distant. While this was being
done, two other robbers entered the ex
press car, and in an encounter with them
Sauinders was killed and Cox was badly
wounded in the face. The train hands
came to the rescue, and the robbers beat
a retreat, No money was sccured. A
posse is in pursuit of the gang. There
is no clue yet.
Soliciting Agent .1. M. Cox, of the
Southern E.-press company, reached
this city this morning, and went direct
to his home In Riverside, a suburb,
where he told a rejporter the following
story ok the murder and attempted rob
hery:
"1 was on t ain No. 1 I this morning,
and when we had reached the little sta
tion of' Monroe, just this side of Sand
lord, the train was waved town by a
man with a lantern who was supposed
to be the aent. The man got on and
we started ol' slowly, when I noticed a
man standing; on the platform of the ex
press car just outside of the door. Saun -
ders and mysell were sitting close to
gether on a trunk near the door, and on
seeing the man I asked Saunders who It
was. le threw open the door to see
who it was when two men jumped in,
cach with a revolvor, and ordered,
- Ilands up!' As the comimiiand was
4ttercd Saunders grappled with the first
.nan, and L with the other. Then a ter
ribil encoutiter took place. The men
bthll had pistols, an-I we were unarrued.
Saiiders endeavored to get his pistol,
but without.success. Firing commenced
at the outset and they put it to us hot
and Ieav v. We ield our own, however,
w ith siuch odds a:gaist us anl' I sti:cecded
ii throwm,- my man out and closing the
door. Meaniwhile, Saunders had re
ctive.I Iori:l wouldi and staggered
ttrough I te car to the end where he fell.
In the vxcitement I scarcely recognized
that I h..i hIen woun)!deI.''
J. S. GOIhert, tHie baggge master,
s that h ivald the shots and iinmmedl
aiwly went !orward to see whal. was up.
A t th froNt door StOod the fourth rob
,a medunm sized .man With a dark
m ustache, who hadl on a narrow brim
Iled elt hat pulled down over his eyes.
The robber grabbed Gilbert by the coat
with one lmnd, and thrust, a big pistol
mi 1his hwe witi tLe other, saying.
"Tlhere is one man hiymng deadi there
.ind another in the en and if' you know
what's hecal thy for yeu you will get in
thle exptress car in a hurry."' Of course
si ibert did its orderedct.
Tbc expiress oflicials state t,hat there
was probably si0,000 or* $20,000 in:the
compIIany's safe, but the robbers did not
get a penny of' it. The mall car was not
attatcd, although dfoubitless there wvere
registered letters in the mail containing
a large aggregate amount. Wit,hin an
hour fromi the attack, two posse's had
been organized by the sheriff', and start
edf to scour the woodhs in the neighblor
food. T1here are :of' course threats of
Ilynzchiing if' the murderers are caught.
There is as . et no clue as to who the rob
hers mare.
d1 A'iusoN vi LEi, LA, Mtay 23.--Seve:i
men in all are under arrest in Orange
County on suspjicion of being connected
with the miurdler of' Expressman Saund
ers. There are rumors that onc man
had such str'ounig suspicions arousedf
against him that, his captors resorte<d to
ph uysical tori ure in order to extort a con
fessioni from him, btit the expedient
fatiled . One of' the suspects at Orlando
is believed to be weakening and there
are mienictions that tie may turn State's
evidence soon andf give the names a-'Id
w hereab)outs of his accomplices. All
tfhe meni under arrecst are raihroadl em
ployee,.buit none of' them worked for the
.Jacksonv ille, T1ampa antd Key' West
Company, and all are qjm.at.
JA cKsoNviL LE, FLA, May 23.-An
Orlando special says: "'The &uthiorities
have in the city jail here a man snunpect
edt of' b)emg a train robber and murderer.
lie was arrested on Satuirday afternoon
in a bar ber shop, lIe came in on a train
fromn Cam'tont andf bought a newspaper
in which lie read a description of' himself.
lie thien went to the barber shop
l and ord(ered his beard shaved ceff.
itL is said tha. lhe made a confession Sumn
(lay implicating three others. A full
description of' these has not been pub
lished. Five suspects arrested at San..
ford were brought here this afternoon
and taken b)efore the s'tuspect here al
leged to have confessed.
No reporters were admitted, but it is
learned t.hat the suspect here declared
t,hat these five iromi Sanford were not
muilty men. Th'fe Orlando peole (10 not
believe the nman In jail hero has con -
fessed. TIheo autfioritics give no infor
mation, lbut at Sanford a Mircular is be
ing d'is!mibuted igiving a dlescription of
the other men. Tme descriptions wore
B securedh from the Orlando um1an Who us
- said to have confe2ssed.
..Bloody Riot it Atlanuta,,
AT LANTA, OA , May 23.--A drunk
I ed row atmong the laborers at the
I water.works last night resulted in the
shooting ot three men. Kid Sanford
was shot dead, Rob Taylor was fatal
ly wouinded and William Taylor died
of his wvounds to-day*