The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, June 05, 1896, Image 1
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;
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