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AWFUL CYCLONE. Appalling Loss of Life In M v Around St. Louis. HUNDREDS DEAD OR DYING. A Whirling Oloud of Death and \ Ihitruotiou, v Girnl Torna^ooi Sweep Oat of tho Xorth V \vest, Cro.?lii} f.ower St. Laul?i and \ t'otlnire;! by Flood and Fire, I>?*troy I Much or Bitit St. liOuli---The Kmli I JJrlrtjjo PnrtUlly Wroohcrt? Hlonit Alter I ? lilopk of Houses Crushed by tho St?nn '???Huudredi of Families MaiJo Ilume ? leu ? School Children Killed ?? Tho / Statin Sweeps Over Sevorul State#. St.- Louis, Mo., Muy 23.? St. Louis gnspa in tliC elm low of u horror uus^eakitblw. From onil to end it is n elty of wrcoii c.ud ruin. From end to end it is u oily of tho la An hour, and ihrco alarms were sent In from tho poorhouso, which building has 1200 inmates. The roof of tho poorhouso was blown oft nnl tho fatalities are great Hiring the h>t rrtoo at tho Fair Grounds tho roof was blown off tho grand stand. Tho crowd had gone to tho or>on fields for safety, and only four men woro killed. Thonrinory at Kevcutevuth and IMuo streets was used aa a hospital. At 7.80 r>. m. tho rain, wldoh had caased for a time, began afresh, and fell In torrents. At 8 o'clock tho eastern sky'was aflame with' tho ll^ht of tiros In East 9t. Louis. The metal roof of too Merchants' Exohai.ge was rolled up Itko a scroll and foil Into tho utreets. v The Iioutavlllo and Nastivlllo oa^t -bound local passenger train had Just reached East HI. I, >uls when 'the storm Btruok tho oltv. Th? train was ovorturnHd. but mtratyiloudly only a few passengers were Injured. The Ohloago and Alton oast-bbund local passenger train which loft 8L Louis at 5 o'clock )vaa on tho vast span of tho bridge, whontne wind picked tho cars up and turned them over on their .aides, The Iron spans cud trusses h?ld tho oars from toppling Into . Iho river, 100 feet below. Tho passengers were thrown into a confused mass. The net work of wires made rescue difficult and dnu gorous. Tho east span of the oast bridge |h t-o badly wrooked that it will take threo days to allow trains to pass. Lighting struck tho Standard Oil Works nud flames woio soon pouring from a dozen building*. Tho East St. Louis Firo Depart ment was utterly poworles to couo wllu tho Urea, nud It was feared that nearly the entlro business and a great portion of tho reeidenoo eectiou would bo destroyed by flamea, if not already ruined by tho wind. Among the principal buildings already In ruins aro thu National Hotel, tho Standard Oil Works, Iinst St. Louis Wlro Nail Works, tho Cro?cen'. Elevator, llasel Elevator, all freight depots and stores and residences on 8*. Clair ave nue. T:io damage lo tho propetly in St. Louis is estimated at $1,000,000, nud ho loss in East ST. L0UI3 AUDITOKIUM. (Built for tho Republican National Convention which will bo hold Juop ML Gouul'.to:* I man Kortsus biijm tUo ilainu^o It his roooivod will not intorforj with atyi; iig . ) dead. A tornado, terrible la its fury, im measurable In Its de^trucUvoness, struck tho city at 5.15 p. ra. yiiterdtfy and tor luilf un hour it rookod nnd tromblod as it a giant c iflh " ? ? ? . tijq onrth beneath scourged it, vast . ju'jciont or (jouutry nnd It wrought unprecedented havoo ia this vlly. Two tornadoes, ono sweeping down from Moberly, Mo., towat.l tho southeast and tho otUtff sweepiug up from tho southeast, mot over tho Mississippi Itlver at 8t. LouIp. Tho i torms seemed to Join forces .and doalt death and destruction. East 8t. Louts, on tho Illi nois side of ti.o river, fared t ho worpe, a swath Hevoral blocks wldo buing cut through tho heart of that cliy. The lower part of 8t. I .<>ii Is, on the western bank of tho river, was swept through and gro.it buildings wero * levelled as though they wore bulit of KtrpW. In Eist St. Louis thero Is little doubr'fhat the number of dead was 300, in 8t. Jyonis it reached 1 CO; 1500 wore hurt in autlmear St. Louie. I f ; In East 8t, Louis It* -ftfs of life was greatest, it i? variously plaold at from t wo hundred to three hundred. In 8t. Louis it is known that many wero killed. Latest reports compiled from the scene of destruction in tho three States point to the loss of over 500 human lives. The disaster appears to be the grcatesftno ^country tiais known slnco tbo Johnstown flood. Thoro are roporta that eighty flohodTi*e1?Hw? * dren were kiilod at Drake. III., and that forty perished at Bush Hill, Mo. The properly loss runs into millions. It Is placed, from cyclone, lire nnd llood, in East St. Louis, III., at two millions and a half of dollars. In St. Louis it will bo four million more. The Liggett A Myers wreck buried twenty three workmen under its debris. Only three deaths resulted from tho City Hospital WrHck. ' ? The llepublieun Convention Hall is ; injured but little. A week's work will repair It. Seven steamers wero wreoked by the s.orm. The number of doad they carried down Is not known. Dmpito the flood of rnlp which followe<l ' tbo /gyration of tbp winds, fhe electric light ? winn ignited the ruins everywhere and the +3?raetion wan incn-asod. The streets were ?o ({tiered with debris that tho flromen were unable to render assistance in nnv direction, even If ths water works had not already baen destroyed by the cyclone*. . '? The great Ends Bridge, spanning tbo Mis it. soutb, whore it Mt. Louis f?9,000,000. Thero woro really two tornadoes. Ono camo from the nor|nwest and tlio other from tho direct cnflt. Both mot on tho Illinois shore of tho Mississippi lttvor and joinod In a whirling cloud of death and destruction. Tho list of dead In St. Louis is boyoud present com nutation. A largo section of tho city j-iil blew down. Tho two hundrod prisoners wero exercising at the tlrfio, but they wore too frightened to attempt to escape. Tho poorhouso, auroral miles from St. Louis, wa<? damaged by tiro aud many inmntcs burned. Tho East St. Louis Water \JTprks were destroyed. Tho levee paokrd with people whllo tho storm rag6d fiercest, groping through the darkne.w and eagerly imploring infor mation from lovod ones on tho river. Tho Annunciation Church at Sixth ah^ Lasalle atrootswas totally destroyed. Fathoi Head, tho pastor, whs fatally injured. Michael Dawes, a driver, was blown from his wagon in tho vicinity aud instantly killed. Tho middle Bpau of tho roadway abovo the rati?' road tracks on tho Eads Bridge was blown completely away. The Plant flour mills and tho works of the ?St. Louis Iron and Steel Company were do siroyed, and tho bigijttpples block of build* logs was partially demolished. The Waters-Pierce ill works were destroyed by fire, and building* in several parts of the city burned all uiglit. Tho total numberot families who are with out homes, aud whopoovery article of house* hold ofTects was swept away by tho storm, is variously estimated at from 500 to 80 It will bo several Uays boforo a complete and triist worthy list can be made. The Baltimore and Ohio and Ynndalta roundhouses, the Standard Oil Works, East St. Louis ami Crescent elevators, and a dozon freight houses woro caught in the vortex of tho cyclone aud reduced to dobri). Five hundred freight oars aro said to huvo been blown Into the river. * The great Eades bridge was twisted all out of shape and made an utter ruin. Freight * curs woro towed to and fro, tumbled into ditches, drivon sometimes into th?? Holds many rods from where they stood. | The graft Vandalfavfroiftht houso fell in a heap of utter^ntln, aud thlrty-flvo men who had takon fofugo in ,it woro buriod beneath the ruinA and their lives crushed out. Some of the bodies, havo beeu got out, torn .and mangled beyond tho nowors of description. Liggett and Moycr's Dig tobacoo manufac tory, tho largest In the West, according to tho latest ro|K>rt was wrecked totally and the 8T. LOUIS ' EXPOSITION BUILDING. mo famous utrpcturo, where many Notional Conventions hovo met, Udly damagoJ.) loss of II fo there was great. Twenty dead bodies and many wounded have boon recov ered from thin building. The Mega In the river opposite Sf. Louts tiu appal 11 ok. Uteamboata moored at their lauding* were torn away, tamed over and sank, drowning All on board. Kany people were teen clinging to floating wreckage and piUooily appealing for helpc ? - ' OTHER PLACES STRICKEN. k W Friendship (5'iuroh, north of totVn, was demolished, Tlio funnel-shaped cloud ww? seen by lmlf th?* people of Htur geou, Bridges and fences jiru torn up for mile* Kanh vh Citv, May' May 28. ? ttenlok, llan riolph CounJ>, M<?., was blown. away thls< aftornoouv<irnd several persons *vor?? killed. Labndie, Mo., wnt also destroyeo* Tun per sons were kiHod at the latter pit co. CHictdo, May 28. ? Tho torrfulo pgpsod through Southern Illinois ami sproad de struction over a ? llirge tfjtiiQt fcf tegritarv. Now linden is report ad to hwve pa?n nearly destroyed, and several lives wrr l<j?t. Be von persons are reported killed and thirty in jured at Now Madrid, southonst Of?* Centra 1 1 a. Tho Villains of lJObw and l>lx \r?*? ? partial ly destroyed, npd several perso'i* killed. It Is estimated that tlfty lives haw') t>eon lost In Clinton, Washington and Joffor k?i? Oountlow, and vast amonutof f?i -m nropejty de?troyo\ A dispatch from fimtralla ^lves uows or th? tornado's deadly work at l'lofcnoyTlllo, which is south of tho former < |ly, Tho com pany's station nud machb f> shops woro blown to pieces, and} several business build ings and houses torn* down. The oompauy's i chiof olerk there, >?Uo whs in The stntlon, ! was killed, nud tho cashier ?H>WflUsly in jured. . - Tlio Coroner'i Figures. ? , The thousands of men at work In the ruined dlstrlot at St. Louy, Mo., an* bringing or dor out of chaos and It' will bo but a fow days be fore nearly evory 14*00 of tho matorlal wreckage caused by tlm tornado of Wednes day has boon cleared a way. The following |i t ho figures in ronpi^il by the coroner: Known dead in St. Louis 194; unknown dend in St. Louis 8. Fatally Injured in St. LculslS; mlsslug iu St. Louis 50. Known deal in East St. Louis 132; tin known dead it. East St. Louiis 3. Fatally injured iu St. Louis 1. Total fatalities 418. ST. LOUIS FllMJHTKNKD. A Threatened Repetition of tho Ittccnt Hurricane ICndcil lu a Rainstorm. Shortly boforo 2 o'clock Hundnj morning tho two stricken cltiog, St. Louis and East St. Louis, received a tliorough scare. A storm camo upfrotn the southwest, accompa nied by low, rumbling thundor and almost continuous flashes of llgidning.' Then, a fow minutes Inter, big, blaojc clouds appeared on tho northern horizon and rolled up until they covered tho city. T(ioro was consider able wind, though nothing* at all approaching a hurricane or tornadc, Tho olemontal dls tu rbahoe lasted for nearly 1111 hour and then becamo \ a slow, drizzling rain, which in-, creasod to a downpour. Th*? worked cleaipv lug away tho ruins is being carried on iu a more systematic manner. ? . I Hard On Their Families. In Washington county, Fla., Snndoiy, Hon ry DAnloy and James I'owoll, who married sisters, fought iu tho. prcsonco of tlioir wives and children. Powell sunk nn nxe.'into Dan ley's left shoulder, nlmost splittlur ofT tho arm and part of the sido. Danlov then shot Powell through tho stomach, l'oyoll is re ported dend and Danloy will die, A family ipiarrol caused tho dUel. ? ClvOl/I> BURST IN MlSSOUltl. Several I?coplo Drowned nml Much 1'roperly Destroyed. Two cloudbursts ooeurrod k in NowtOn county, Kansas, nt an early hour Saturday moriftng, onoat Kansas City and theothor nt '?Seneca.; Ono ilfo was losrt at Kansas City and ^twenty-seven nt Heneon. At HylvoHto, two w?*ro drownod by tho ovortairnlng of a bont whllo being taken from th<? Hood. Tho con dition of Seneca is pitiable. It Is a town ol .1/200 inhabitants, sixteen iull?? west of hero, '?hd is situated in >n valley. The wator win from four to six feet deep In ovory business Jiouse. Many buildings wore washed away. At 8onooa nine bodies have been recovered, but tho namos could not bo ascertained: In dications now point to nnothor storm, In which evon tho damage to life and property will be greater. ThAdmnago to Seuoca prop erty will reach ?160,000. Tho ofTlce of tho Seneca Dispatch was washed away, together with tho Methodist church and naif of the buildings in Miin stroet. Tho property damage is o*tiin.V.ed at tOO, 000. TIIK I'KAUUDY SCHOLARSHIPS In tho Normal Coliego at Nashville? Kxumiimtlous Jn July. The general agent of tho Pcabody fund h*s mudo a new apportionment of scholarships allowed tho several States in tho Pea body Normal College at Nashville, Tonn., by 'which Booth Carolina is henceforth to bo allowed 13 instead of 11 scholarships, as hereto fore. A Peabody scholarship is worth SI 00 ft year and tho student's railroad faro from his homo to Nashville and return by the most direct route, and is good for two yoars. Tho collegoyear consists of eight months, beginning on tho first Wednesday in October, and closing on tho last Wodnesdhy in May, and tho scholarship students rocoivo from the president of the collego $25 on tho last days of October, December, February and .Aipri' . These scholar ships aro awarded When vacancies 'oc cur from any^fitate, by competitive examination. Tho examination of ap plioants will tako placo this yett on July 21 and 22. ./ CONDITION OF TIIK CROPS. Cotton and Corn Generally Good, Xlut Cereals are Ifelow the Average. Tho Woekly weather and crop bulletin of the department of agriculture at Washing ton contains the following reports of crop conditions throughout the 8 uth : Virginia? Richmond? Droughty conditions which havo been prevailing woro broken b^l the rain of last week; general Improvement'*' all crops noticeable; winter wheat beading short; rosebngs threaten destruction of grape erop la Rockingham county; potato bugs doing some damage. North Carolina? Raleigh? Temperatures above normal, and excess of precipitation in central portion very favorable; drought still continues in We*t and along Southeast cot st; minor damage hy hall 17 counties; wheat ripeolng, short but with good heads; oals a failure; cotton and corn in exoelient condition. Sooth Carolina? Colombia? Unevenly dis tributed showers except over southeastern portion, where drought continues; corn im Eroviojr, H healthy, clean and earliest ready > lav by; ootton within exception well culti vated, clean aad healthy, cboppln* nearly ?Dished, sqaareo forming plentifully; fruit aad minor held erop generally poor. Oeorgia?Aflant a-*- Another very hot week, it?:.*1 needs rata badly r fraK cqaUaoes to<t shed; VETOED BY CLEVELAND. The President Ro!usel to Sign t'ic \ River and Harbor Bill. \ _ #-l filE OBLIGNTIONS IT PORTENDS 8omo of It* limm. Ho Bay*, Arc* for the J Jioueflt of I.oruvt or Trlvute Interests and WuulilToixl toStlmututo u Ylclout 1'ate rnatlim ? AntUorliotlun of Con tracts for SO'). 000,000 u Vo.tture. i ? WAapixaTOK, Jane 1. * I'resident.Clovohuul eent to tho House of Representatives n mes sage votolng th? River nud Harbor bill, In whl^h ho says: y^Thero are 417 ltoms of appropriation ooa talnoJ In this hill, and every part of tbo country Is reproseu^od In tho distribution of its favors. . \ "It directly approWiftt03 or provides for tho Immediate exponultyro of nearly $14, 000,000 for rlvor and harbor work. This su-n Is In addition to appropriations oontalnod in nnolhor bill lor similar purposes amounting to a llttlo mora than #3,000,000, which havo already been favorably considered at tho prosent session of Congress. "Tho result Is that the contomnlate l imme diate expenditures for tho objeots mentioned amount to about $17,000,000. "A more sturtliug feature of this bill Is its authorization of oontraets for river and har bor work nmounting to more thau $ OJ, 000, 000. Though tho payments on those contracts nro in most cases so distributed that they are to be mot by future appropriations, more than $3,000,000 on their account ape Included in t he direct appropriations above montionod. Of the reranlndor nearly $20,000,000 will fall duo during tho fiscal year ending Juno 89, 1897, and amounts somewhat less In tho years Im mediately sucoeodlug, . A few oontraots of a liko character, autuorlxod under previous statutes, are still outstanding, and to moot payments on theso more thim $4,000,000 must be appropriated in thoimimtdlato future. "If, therefore) this bill becomes a law, tho obligations which will bo imposod on tho Government, togothor with the appropria tions tnude for luimedtato expenditure, on account of rivers and harbors, will amount to about $80,000,000. Nor is this all. The bill directs numerous surveys and examina tions whloh contomplato new work and furthor contracts, and whloh portond largely inoreasod expenditures and obligations. ?'There is no ground to hope that, in tho fnoo of porslstent and growlhg domands, tho aggregate of appropriations for tho smaller schemes not covered by contracts will be re duced or oven remain stationary. For tho fiscal yoar ending Juno 80, 1891, ?uoh appro priations, together with tho instalments pn contracts whioh will fall due in that yoar, can hardly bo Iohs than $30,000,000, and It may reasonably bo apprebendod that tbo provajont tendency toward inoroased ex penditures of this sort, and the concealment whioh postponed paytponts afford for extrav agance, will increase tho burdens ehargo ablo to this accouut io succeeding years. "In vlhw of tho obligation imposed upon jno by tho Constttutfou it seems to mo quite clear that I only disohargo a duty to our pooplo when I Intorposo my disapproval of tho legislation proposed. "Many of tho objects for whloh it appro priates public money nro not related to tha public welfare, and many of them are pal^ nably for tho benefit of limitod localltios, or in aid of indivlduaf interests. "I learn /rom official sources that thoro nro appropriations oontainod in tho bill to pay for work whioh private parties havo actually agreed with tho Oovorument to do, in consideration of their occupanoy of pub lio property. fl-Vl am convinced that thojblll now undor consideration opens tho way to insidious and increasing abuses, and lain1 itself so ex travagant as to bo especially uusuited to theso times o( depressed business and result ing dirappolntmcnt in Qovernmeut revenue. This consideration is emphasized by tho pro?pect that the publlo treasury will be con fronted with other appropriations made nt tho present settalon ?f Congress amounting to more than $600,000,009. "I believe no greater danger confronts u? as a Nation than the unhappy deoadenco among our people of genuine and trust worthy lovo ana affection for our Govern ment, as the embodimont of tbo highest and l>esi aspirations of humanity, and not as tho giv^r of gifts, and because its mission is tno enforcement of exact justice and equality, nod not tho .allowance of unfair favoritism. ??I hope f may be permitted l&IOMMR M~ a time when the issue of Govorffment bonds to maintain the credit and financial standing of the country Is a subject of criticism tbat the contracts providod for in this bill would oreato obligations of tho United States nmounting to $62,000,000, no less binding thpn its bonds for thnt sum. ( "Gnovr.a Clkvet.axd. "?JSyKOirtrivB Maxsiox, May 29, 1896." Tlia veto messago was read In the Houso and referred to tha Committee on Rivers and Harborj. * * I I Tornado In Mlssonrl. Twonty-flvo lives lost Is tho callmato oftho fatalities resulting from a tornado and cloud* burst which struok Bonooa, Mo. Tho samo number of buildingK were wrocke.!, and n number of others woro swept from their foundations by tlio doluge. Tho storm also viiiitod Neosho. Mo., where V. 8. Wood was killed. All the stronms In Houthwest?rn Missouri had boon filled to thuir capaoltv, and this sudden surplus will ruin thousands of acres of grain. Many farmers' housns am reported blown over, and tho water covers a vast urea of land. "Crick" Pomerojr Dead. Hark M. (''Brick") Fomeroy died, sudden ly at bis homo in Brook^-n, N. Y., of heart failure. For more than forty year* *'Brlok" l'ombroy was known as a newspaper man and a politician. Be waa born sixty-throw years ago at Lawrencevilie. Tioga County, Peon. He won success with the La Crosee (Wis.) Bomocrnt, which, under his manage ment, reached a circulation of 320.000 copies. Hp then moved to New York and was Inter cepted in various schemes that gate him no toriety. Ttentaeky Is for Free SjUvcr. The result of tho Democratic county eon vonilons makes it clear that Kentucky has swung into line for free silver. Only two Congressional districts In the State escaped the wave, tne Fifth and Hixtb. The first Is composed of Louisville a?d Jefferson Coun ty, which wore practically ntpnlmonsi the eeco-jd Is the district Which ffflretary Carl Isle so long represented^ aid In which be was sustained by * good mJftrity//tne gold standard men carrying fltty-obe of the nine ty-four delegates. - ^ little Olii M?r4?*4. Mamie OaamlngfcMh a bright -fsoel little CEOSHBD ST THE FEAST. Terrible Loss ol Life Atlo ids the Rus sian Czar's Coronation# MOSCOW'S FRIGHTFUL CALAMITY About 500, 00.1 l'enpte Wore <? ittiorH to Itocolvo Tlielr 11 titer'* Dm t.y-'?A Itc n' st Crowd Sw,<ji| I nrvtHnl to tho 1'Oi) ? Men, M'vmtii un t Cltllilreu Tramiilttl IJuder t'oot. f? Moscow. Russia, Juno 1. ? A terrible acci dent, resulting in tho loss of a largo number of livos, occurred hero Saturday, It was nt tho popular feto ot tho coronation ceromon ies, hold on tho Hodynsky Plains, opposlto (ho rotfovskl Palace, ouji whloh, It Is esti mated, fully 60.1,000 parsons attended. Mnny wiltl estimates woro nt llrat mado as to tho numbor of poraons who ha 1 lost their live*. It was Impossible for somo tlmo to ob tain nay oflloial Information ns to tho num bor, but nt last It was learnod that tho loss of lifo will exceed 113S. For days past tho city ha 1 boon full ,of peasants from many parts of tho oountry, nil awaiting tho fro3 toast. Many of tho urns ants had walkod long dlbtanoea in order to b;> present, whllo others, moro fortunate, ha<l arrlvnd lu tho city in vehicles of every description. Groat booths had boon constructed on tho plalu, and from thorn woro distributed froo food, froo boer and also mugs a* souvenirs of tho oooasiou. This froo feast, whloh Jias always boon tho popular foaturo of coronn tlouH, has hitherto boon tho occasion of a groat deal of crowding and good ivalurod fighting for plaoos on tho part of tho hun dreds of thousands ot guests of tho olty. From an early hour tho people had begun to move in thousands on to tho Hodynsky Plains. The crowd was greater than had boon anticipated, nud by 6 o'clock ugly rushes began to bo mode by bodies of work men coming lu from the inanufaotorlos. Tho pressure grew worse and worse. Pr ?sentty womon began to utter piercing shrloks and crlrs, and pome of thom foil. Hearing tho noise ftont, tho mob behind pushod forward all tjp more eagerly, think ing that those in front woro getting all tho good things, for by this tlmo tho peoplo had broken Into tho booths nud woro looting them. All nt once there waM a frantic rush, , and tho crowd surged forward llko an Irf resistible and glganllo wave of human bM Ings. A correspondent saw a man aod his wife fall soreaming together, but almost bo foro thoy hud uttered a sound tbtety othors wero piled upon them, whllo hunnrodsmoro wore ooiug hurlod upon these by the massivo force behind. Shrloks, yells m l curies ront the air. Higher and higher tho mass of dead and dying was piled, and it seemed Imposslblo to do anything to provout tho tragedy from growing ovorv moment more terrible and appalling. Tho few police present did nobb( work in trying to rescue tho people. All this happened at n point wtierothe booths formed a curve, apd Into this anifie tho seething mass was f>Hshod hopelecsly forward. Horo. within a Vllstunoe of ont? hundred yards, largo nuirfbers of unfortu. iiHtos porlshod. They formed a confused mass, struggling oonvulsivoly for ft fow moments in the death atonies, but every? where within a radius of nvo hundred yards peop'o woro falling and being crushed to death. Many more wuro livid with fear, apt a fow wero bleeding profu##tf and stlULwore ?' woro flghlng In wild nugorvffth OA* The vast orowd had beoofHe panic stricken. Thoy felt and acted <w? those who were bat tling for lifo. All along the line of the other booths, whloh extended out southward for three hundred yards, the victims of the Crush wero falling with despairing shrieks. While all this was going on those in front, regard lees or ignorant of the dead an tidying, pillaged and robbed. After> the diush the ground WM strewn with boots, broken stlcksand umbrellas. And large wagons were still being tilled with the dead. In som*cascs relatives wero pleadlqg to be allowed to accompany the corpses. One man aotually atlowed himself to be shot in with thom. The scene resembled ;? battle field. Many relatives of the victims sat among the dead walling lamentations or looking stoically into space, and m?uy sat tharthroughout tho night and until tho KlieSW^re removed this morning. ' InvvstigMUm shows that there have been about as many women as male vlotljns. Homo of the men were giants in status; some -were more youths.^ The seena at the burial-' ground was appalling. The dead were la |d in long rows and hundred ot peasants were working as thoagh for life, excavating hfige trenches, extending uoany the ehtlre length of tho churobynrd. Hundreds were burled] during tho night, but the hillside was still covored with rough coffins. Everywhere stood groups from which came the low walling chant which the Russian peasants sing over the dead. In one spot stood a big watering enrt. ? Blale and female dead wero being washed l>y their relatives there In tho opon field. Around a long table sat a scoro of clerk* writing ordors foreofflos. Hundreds ot bodlos. however, are unrecog nised nnd these wero placed fltdo by side In ttanches. Tho Czar nns boon groat ly mo vo.t by the disaster, tho full extent of which was broken to him gently by degrees. His Majesty ban ordered that tho sum of 1000 roubles bo paid to each family that has lost a member through the catastrophe. In addition, the Stato will pay tho expenses of burvlng tho deed, whllo the physicians at tho hospitals and elsewhere have boen In structed to spare nothing to alleviate tho sufferings of the Injured. Although the official roport places the numbor of thosn ktded In tho disaster st 113% it Is highly probable that tho c^act nnmber of victim# will never be known. Tho Vlee Mui-or rob Irons that 1338 persous were.hflled i?nd 286 seriously, perhaps fatally, injured. The official accounts, however, do not In clude many dead and Injured who wofe re moved by frlonds. _ *, v ? !> mm The Uitlsmlera lleleaaad* Tho releoae of nil the moinbern of thft Re form Committor, with tbo oxooption of MrMra. Rhode*, Hammond, Fnirrar nod Phillips, tbo four luadeni, who ?*re origin 'illy condom nod to dnatb, tuts caaeol wide spread ri'Jotolnp in the Tmturul nod eliie wbero infiputh Africa. Tbo liberated Pre toria ptnmber* called on Fresldea: Kroger to thank him for their relsaae. CtrfleM 8 tat no Vnralleil. Tho Garfield statue, tbe gift tbo Fair mount Park Art Association, -was unveiled in Philadelphia.. tfbe actual unveiling wa<] done by Hatty OarfMd, a eon of the lata President. Mayor Warwick made an ad df?ai aad former Untted State* Senator M mtadf delivered a eulogy. mmmm ? ? ii ?? i mmmmmrnJb b*ly One KeeapeA Deetfc. O. P. Hub, wife, aad family of twelve children moved from Ltjaeola, IfObw, to It Lotto, Mo., oa thelfth ot May. TU taMper. mother aad eleven children wen* UUel la flaiemdw Advleas te tin ifalilitm I iNMbem reoeiveJ by relatives irm Wf&M I K??at ifc* wrrlvar oM?o tmtor*. ^ 1 "WAR." I>lt, TAIi>lA(iK'S8i;M>AY TIIKMR. *1 ho Cluiroli Compared to all Army ? (?raves of Southern and North ern Driul Decorated, . ? ? j Tkxt: "Tlia towor of Davi 1 b:Uhled for on armory, whi^rAon there hung a thousand buckles, nil shlqhis o( mighty mon." ? Solo mon's Hong 'v.. 4 Tho church Is hero oompared to an arm cry, tho wn'ls hung with troplilivi of ilnul heroes, Wulk nil about this lower of I>:? vl?l aud see tho dented shleMs, and the twisted swords and tho rusted horn !??!>? of terrible battle. Bo nt thin season, a month earlier at thosenth, a month later nt 1ho north, tho American churches nro turned Into arnvirles adorned with momoripe of departed b\nvos. Blossom And bloom, O wnlls, wli^ stores of ?elf snorinoe nnd patriotism unit prowess! lly unanimous doorefcof tho peopm of 1 1??\ United States of America tho graves of all tho norf'iern and southern dead nro every yoor deooratod. All acerbity nnd bit torn ess have gone out of thonntlonnl solemnity, and it b the mon nn 1 womon of tho .south One month ago flonUir.ivl tho oomotorles and graveyards so "yesterday wo, tho man nnd womon of tho north, put upon tho tombs of (our dond tho kiss of pntrlotio affection. Ilravory always npproclnlos brnvory, though It flnrht on the othar side, nnd If n soldier of tho Fodornt army had boon a month ago ab Savannah ho would not havo boon ashanvi'd to march In tho floral processions to tho coinetery. Ami If yesterday a Confederate soldier was nt Arlington ho was gad to p?t a sprig of hoartaoaso on tho silent hoart of our dead. In a battle during our Inst wnrtho Confed erates wore driving back tho Federals, who worn In swift rotroat, whon a Fodoral ofllcor droppod woumlod. Oaa of his mon stopped nt tho risk of his life and put his arms around the ofllcor to carry hi in from tho flold. Fifty Confoilorato muskets were aimed wit tho young man who was picking up the ofllcor. But the Confodorate ointnin shout ed, "Hold! Don't lira! That fallow Is too brave to Hhoot." And nn tho Federal oftloor, hold up by his private soldier, wont limping Hlowly orf tho Hold tha Oonfedornto srthllors gave threa cheers for the brnvo private, nnd ust boforo the two disappeared bahlnd n >arn both tho wounded officer and tho brave private lifted their caps In gratitude to tho Confodornto captain. Shall tho gospel 1m less generous than tho world? We stac^t arms, the bayonot of our northern Run facing tlits way, the bayonet of the southern gun facing the othor way, and as tha gray o* tha morning malts into tho blue of noon, no tko typlo>il Krny and '"oluo of old war times have lilandad at last, and they quota In tho Inngungo of King Janice's translation without any revision, "Olory to God In tho highast, and on enrtli peace, good will to mon." Now, what do wo mean by this groat observance? First, wo menu Instruction to ono whole generation. Hiihstract 18C5, whon the war endod, from our 189(1, and you will roallao what a vast number of people were born slhoo tho war, or woro no young as to have no vivid appreciation. No one under forty-one years of ago hns any ndoquato memory of ttiat prolonged horror. Do you romombcr It? '/Well," you say, "I only remember tint motliorfcwoOnod away while she wns read ing the newspaper, nnd thut thoy brought my father homo wrapped In tho flntr, and that A good many people camo in tho house to pray, and irothor faded away nfter that until again therejwvo-fnany pooplo in "tho house nnd they told mo sho was donor' There are others who cannot remember the roll of a drum or the tramp of a regi ment or ? sigh or a tear of that tornado of woetbat swept the nation n rnin nnd Again until there wns one dead In each honso. N6w, ft is the religious duty of those who do re member It to toll those who do not. My young friends, there were stioh partings At rail oar windows an t steamboat wharfs, and at front doom of comfortable homos as I pray Ood you maynevor witness. Oh,, what a tlmo It was when fathers nod mothers gave up their sens, never expecting to hco them acrftln and never did see them again nnlll they came back mutilated and crushed nnd dieadl Four years of blood. Four years of hos tile experience. Four years of ghastilness. Four years of graveillgglng. Four years of funerals. coffins, shrouds, hearses, dirges. Mourning mourning! mournlugl It Was hell let loose. What a time of waiting for news! Morning paper and oyening paper Orutlnlsed for intelllKenoe from the boys it the front. First, announoementjthnt fne. itlle must occur the next day. Then tho u-iwsof the battle's going on. On the fol lowing day still going on*^ Then the news if 80,000 slain, and of tlie jlllmes of tho great ,W*n'eruls who bad fallen, but no news about the private soldiers. Waiting for newsl_: Aiir_ tef many days a load of woimdtSa goipg through the town or city, but^no news from our boy. Then along list at wounded an I a long list of thy dead, nnd along list of the missing, and ajnong the last fist our boy. When missJbgV How m If sing? Who saw ^tilm !iJ)l7 MI?Btug. missing! Was he In the woods or by tho stream? How was he hurt/ Missing, missing! Whnt burning prayers that he mny yet be heard from I In that aw ful waiting for news manyn lifo perished. The strain of anxiety was too groat. That wife's broin gave way thnt first week after the battle, nnd ever and anon she walks the floor of the a?y flm or looks out of tho win dow as thou gli/ihri expectod soma one to come along III/ path and up tho steps as she Bolltoqbfcuu.J'MlasIng, missing!" ] Whnt ma<.'? matters worse, nil this might hav? been avoided. There was r.o more need of thnt war than at this moment 1 should plunge a dagger through your heart! Thero were a fow Chrlctlnn philanthropists in those days, scoffed nt both by north nnd south, who had tho right of it. Jfth*?y had been heard on both sides, we should have had no war and no slavory. It was advised by those Christian phl'anthropists, "Let the north pay in money 'or the slaves as property and set ibom free." The uorth said. "W? cannot afford to pay." Tho south said, "We will cot soli tho slaves anyhow." Hut th? north did pay in war expenses enough to purchase the slaves, and the south was compelled to give up slavery apyhow. Might not the north better have paid the money and saved the lives of ftOO.OOO brave men, and might not the south better havusold out slavery and saved her 600,000 brave men? I swear you by the graves of your fathers and brotbers and sons to a now hatred for tho champion curse of the universe? war! O Lord (lod. with the hottest bolt of Thine omnipotent Indignation strike that monster down forever and ever t Imprison it in the deepest dungeon of tho eternal penitentiary. Bolt It in with ail the Iron ?-ver forged in eannon or moulded Into howitzers. Cleave ft with all the sabers that ever glittered. In battle nnd wring lis soul with all the paa#* which it ever caused. Let It reel all the con flagrations of tho homesteads it ever de stroyed. Deeper down let it fall and In fiercer flame let it burn, till It has gathered into fti Wart all the suffering of eternity 1u well as time. In the name of the millions ?"of (Craves of Its victims, I denounce It. The notions need more tho spirit of treaty and leas of the spirit of war. War Is more ghastly now than onoe, not only because of Um greater destrnotlveaess of Its weaponry, because now It taksn down the tent men, whereas once ft ohlefly took down the worst, Bruce, In 1717. laAls "In sHtutiebS of Military Iaw," sold a/the Ba ropean armisn of hw day, "If nil Infogoas tarnfrte and sneh an have committed capital hemtles. othetetn and nil float? ?? i wet* wended ont ef the i 7U WWd 10 41 Agulo, l?y I ) i i s national ceremony we mean > to ^oiior, courage. Many of those departed soldiers wore volunteers, not consorlpts. and I many >f (hose who wore droftw mignt nave provided a substitute or got off on furlough ) or have deserted. Tbo fact lhat thoy Ho in | tholr grave s is proof of t hoi r hravory. llrave I at tho front, br.ivo at tho cannon's mouth, btave on lonely picket duty, bravo In oavalry charge, bravo before tho sutgeon, bravo In tho dying message to tho hapic circle. ,Wu yesterday put a garland on tho hrow of cohtr ' a,*{o. Tho world wants more of it. Tho ohurch of God la In tvdeful nejbd of men who can stand under tiro. Tho lion of worldly derision roars and tho sheep trem bio. In groat reformatory movements at tho first shot how many fall book! Tho great obstacle to i1io ohurch's advancement la tha inanity, tho vaoulty, tha soft pretllnass, tho mamby pabylam of professod Ohrlatlaus. Great on a parade, cowards in battle. Afiald of gottiug tnolr plumes ruffled, they enrry a parasol ovor tholr helmot. They go Into battle not with warrior's gauntlet, but with kid gloves, not clutohing tho svyerd hilt too tight less tho gloves split at the back. In all our reformatory and Christian work tho gro^t want ia moro backbone, mora mottle, morn daring, more prowess, W? would In- all our ohurchos like Jo trado off a hundro I do nothings for one ay everything. "Quit yoursolvos like menj bo strong." ( Tho snlnta tn all this glorious war , v j Hhail eonquor, though they die. j.'J Thoy 800 tho triuuiph from afar . > j And soIjjo It with tholr oye. A^'aln, wo moan by this national obsorv anoo to honor self sacrlllco for others. To all those departed men homo and klndrod were an dear oh our hoino and kind rod are to us. l>o you know how thoy foil? Just as you and I would fool starting out to-morrow morn ing with nine chances out of ton against our returning allvo, for tho Intelligent soldier sees not only battle ahoa I, hut malarial slok mors and eximustlou. Had these men ohosen they oould have spoilt last night in tholr homes aud to-day tiiijro boon aeated wheru you are. Thoy ohosy' the camp not beoauso thoy liked it bettor than their ovvu house, and followed tho urumfand life not booauso thoy were bettor musiol ha ri tho voices of tho domestic circle. South Mountain and Mur freesboro and the swamps of Chtcknhom|oy were not playgrounds. - 1 These heroes rlsko I and lost all for others. There Is no higher sublimity than that. To keop three-quarters for ouraolvos and glvo one quarter to others is liouoraHe. To divide even with others ff rrenorouB. To keep nothing for ourselves and glvo all for others is magnanimity Christlike. Put a a girdle around your body and then measure the glrdlo aud soo if you are fifty or sixty inches round. And Is that thooirole of your sympathies?? tho slr.e of yourself? Or, to measure you around t.ho heart, would it tako a glrdlo largo enough to onclroletho land, and encircle tho world? You waut to know whnt we dry ihooloKlaus moan when we talk of vicarious suffering. Look at tho soldiers' graves and find out. Vicarious pangs for others, wounds for other*, home sickness for others, blood for others, seouleher for others. Those who visited tho national oometorios at Arlington Heights and nt Richmond and Gettysburg saw ono inscription on soldiers' tombs oftenur repeated thnn any qther ? "Un known." W hen ,ii bout tweniy-ofttfyeat-S ago, I was called to deliver tho oration at Arling ton Heights, Washington, I was not 80 much impressed with tho minute guns that shook tho earth or with th?attendanceof president and cabinet and foreign ministers and gen erals of tho army ail?l commodores of the navy as with tho pathotto-?ad overwhelming suggest! vonesa of that epitaph otf s> taaoy gravosat my fe?t, "Unknown!" "Unknown!" It seems to me thnt the time must come ffhett tho government of tho United States shall takeoff that epitaph. They aro no moro un known) Wo have found thorn out at last. Thoy Rro tho beloved sons of the republic. ? If forolgn foe should como, we want men like those of 1813 aud like thoso of 1862 to meet them. * We want them all up.and down I he coast, Pulaski and Fort Humter In tUa same chorus of thunder as Fort Lafayette and Fort Hamilton? meu who ivlll not >001/ know how to fight, but how to dlv Whoa such a time' comes, If It over does, come, tho generation on the atnge Of action 9HII says "My country will baro for my family a* they ?* did in the soldiers' asylum for the orphans in thoOivll War, and my country will honor my dust as it hotfored those who preeode I - me in patriotio sacrifice, and onooa rearat any rate, on Decoration Day, I shall bo res urrected iuto the remembrauce of those for whom I died. Here I go for Ood and n?y countryl Huual" If foreign foo nhould come, tho old sec tional QolmoeiUes would have no power. Here go our regiments lolo the battlefield? Fifteenth New York volunteers, Tenth Ala bama on v airy. Fourteenth Ponnsrlvunia rifle* men. Tenth Massachusetts artillery. Snventh South 0 ttroll mi shnrpshoopers. I do not know but It may require the attack of . Rime foreign foe to make us forget our absurd sec tional wrangling. 1 hare no faith In the ry^'iNo north. t?o south, no tmsi, no westt" ?t nil >qur sections keep their peculiarities arid (Mi "preferences, each doing- Its awn work and Mt Interfering with egoh otnel-, each of tfus four carrying Its part lathe great barmony/-lhe basd, tht> alto, tho tenor, tho soprano f-in the grand muron of Unlet}. Onoe more. this great national oertmpny means fflio bcautiflcatlon of the tombs^ rpli In battle or aocl p trod In their beds, or r 1 *32?, you inoe means whether dent, or i take >f those w So havo ,Norjyrf have noticed ffiat many of the faml.? this aeosen as the time for the adornment oC their family p'ots.- This national observance has scoured the arboriculture andflorieul tare of the oometorles, the straightening 'up of many a slab planted 80 or 40 years aio, and has swung tbu scythe through the loo/ grass and has hrought the stonecutter to call out t bo half obliterated epitaph.; This fky is tho benediction of the testing nlaco of father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sis* ter. * It fs nit that wo can do for them now. Make thoir resting pla es attractive, not ab? surd with costly outlay, but in quiet remem* brance. You know how. If you can afford only one flower, that will do. It. shows what you would do If you could. -One bl~~ from j'Atl may moan more than tho we som from Duko of Wol I Ifigt^^^^fj^uo. Oh, cannot afford to forget them. "They v so lovely to us. We' tnim thorn so much. We will, never get over It. Blessed Lord Josus, comfort our broken hearts. Pftxn' every bank of flowors breathes promise of resurrection. In olden times tho Hobtews, returning from tbelr burial plaoo, ufel to ptaok the grass from the Held three or four times, then, throw It brer their heads, suggestive of tho resurrect ion. We pick not the grass, bat the flower*, and Instead of throwing thorn over our bead*.#* place them before our eyas, rf| ht down over tho slieat heart that osa> beat with wavmsst love toward us, or over the still feet that ran to sendee, or. over the lip* from wMeh we took the kite at the an-' ? ? " ? i^i But Will t pf Wo i guish of the tot parttag te bod lei our epti spirits la the land of the models. OarbodMa m'jola the bodies' of our oepaned In | and oar spirils shall Jotathet* ? pin IS IB ?Ur l?uu vi ??. ? cannot long be separated. IastendoC o*y lag with Jacob or Joasph, Into the grave aato my ? * let us ery with David, "ft On one of the?(ate* of qaatnt inscription, **A a toe way to the eity df - Comfort one another with theea the hand of Him #tfosh*ll wtoa from all eyes wlnejfoyeheeh i tts&Bgsf ?ssarassaBi; 'T**""!!""?*?" r~" " " T". '*?*" 'n.kwil a? ii <