Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — Page 2

fl)e | tmotrolitSf nlittf I RENSSELAER, INDIANA. j. W. McEWEN, Ppblisheb.

POISONED BY SCORES.

jpEADLY WORK OF CHEESE AT MANSFIELD, OHIO. jin discriminate Work In Seed Distribution *■ —Negroes Born for Revenge—New Brunswick Town Again Swept by Fire—Kansas • Family Wholly Wiped Out. What Was in the Cheese? The wholesale case of poisoning by the eating of cheese In Mansfield, Ohio, is much worse than was at first supposed. Nearly every person In twenty-five families who purchased and ate of the cheese la now afflicted and for twelve persons there Is slight hope of recovery. It seems 110 persons sampled the cheese, which was manufactured near the city. Nine doctors, together with the coroner, are In charge of the afflicted, and although no deaths are yet reported several persons are expected to die hourly. Health Officer Reed procured two pounds of the cheese and sent it to the health department at Columbus for analysis. WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY. jkw-rctary Morton on Seed Distribution and Experiment Stations. - According to a Washington correspondent Secretary Morton, in his forthcoming geport, will make two Important recom-

SECRETARY MORTON.

that, too, largely at Government expense,” •aid Secretary Morton. “Garden seeds 'are distributed indiscriminately without regard to locality or any knowledge as to whether they are adapted to the country to which they go or even whether the people who receive them have any use for or ■want them. It should be the object of experiment stations to test the needs of the •oil, and if there is any public demand for seeds that thrive and produce well to supthem from the fund which the Government pays them. True, this would prevent Congressmen from flooding their districts with such packages, but it would be is long step in the direction of economy, *nd at the same time subserve all public needs.” • Whole Family Drowned. Word has been received from Englewood, Stark County, Kansas, of the drowning of William Waddell, his wife and four chilBren, while In camp on the border awaiting the opening of the Cherokee strip. Waddell, wife and family were camped in a valley, and It Is supposed the heavy rains of last Thursday and Friday flooded their dogont, and the occppahts were wasHfcd, •way in the darknefl The body oi one pt the children has been recovered. Refused to Tell of the Murder. At Jenny Lind, a mining town Fort Smith; Ark., Saturday evaarlng, J. D. Rainey murdered James Craig, both'coal miners. They had been drinking together. Rainey went to a house on the roadside and told a woman that he had killed a man. Se then left and has not since been seen. Craig was found lying In a pool with his •hull fractured by stones He regained consciousness hut stubbornly refused to give any explanation and died.

Cause of India's Action. In response to Inquiries in the House of Commons Q. £ Russell, Parliamentary Secretary of the India office, stated that the object of the recent silver legislation py the Government of India was not to fix the value of the rupee at 16 pence or any Other amount, but to prevent a future fall In the price of rupees. He added that there was not a fixed ratio of value between the rupee and the sovereign, Big Shock at Denver. A magazine containing two tons of dynamite and belonging to the Home Powder Company, located seven miles from Denver.exploded with terrible force. The shock was felt all over the city. Pieces of brick were blown over several hundred acres of ground and a hole forty feet deep was torn In the earth. A hat and the torn shreds of clothtng were found near by, and it is thought two tramps were blown to atoms. Bighty Families Homeless. For the third time within a few years the village of Falrvllle, a 9uburb of 6t John, K. R, was almost destroyed by fire Tuesday. The burned district covers a large part of the section that was burned a year ago, which had been rebuilt, together with that part of the village which escaped deatructlon at that time. Eighty families are homeless. Many handsome new residences were destroyed and the loss will reach well into the thousands of dollars

To Avenge Miller’s Death. Mayor Yeiser, of Paducah, Ky., received a telegram from Slaughter Llnthicum, the Mayor of Bardwell, asking for the loan of 100 Winchester rifles and 240 rounds of ammunition. He said that the city was threatened with serious trouble, the negro population having risen up in Indignation over the hanging and burning of S. J. Miller there. Texas Cattle Bring Disease. Texas cattle brought into Kansas by the Mfinfield Pasturage Company and unloaded at Grand Summit have caused an outbreak of Texas fever. Many head of cattie have died. Warship Needed. United States authorities will probably •end the Philadelphia to Eamoa, deeming the presence of a warship advisable. And She Still Fives. Meeting accident in a Windsor, Conn., •wamp, Mrs. Mary Media remained withont Hood for forty-one days. Would-be Lynchers Are Baffled. At Grand Forks, N. D., fifteen hundred determined men sought Tuesday night to lynch William Baumberger, the murderer of the six members of the Krelder family »t Cando, but the mob was without a leader and Sheriff Fadden by a show of force was able to protect his prisoner.

Gotham Isn’t In It. New York’s population is 400,000 less than that of Chicago The new city directory of Gotham, compiled this year with unusual care to accurately estimate the population of the principal seaport of the tJalted States, shows it j Beat the World’s Record. • The Crosby Hose running team lowered the world’s record for 200 yards at BradPa, by making the distance 1n0:22%. |The former record of 0:23 1-5 was held by pbe Everett Hose Company, of Boulder, May Succeed Blatchford. 1 Secretary Gresham, Don M. Dickinson •■d Wayne MacVeagb are among the name* mentioned for a successor to Justice i j Killed by a Runaway, li A. Outright, of Great Falla Mont, was fbrown under a mowing maohlne by his ' h”— 6 * >nd fotaiiy injured, I

mendations, coqtemplating radical changes in the method of doing some of the work of the Department of Agriculture. “There is a considerable sum of money expended annually by this department in doing work that is but a duplication of that done elsewhere, and

PARIS UNDERGUARD. Streets Patrolled by Troops Under Orders to Shoot to Kill. Paris advices,say that rioting still continues It has gone so far that It la Impossible to say where It will end. Marshal Saussier, the military governor of Paris, has warned all the garrisons to be in readiness at a moment’s notice. M. Loze’s resignation, which he tenderod, as prefect of police has been refused by the Government, The Latin quarter is wrecked in all directions. From latest returns It is estimated that one policeman was killed, forty policemen Injured, and 150 rioters severely wounded. A mob of students surrounds the Hospital de la Charlte to watch that the body of Nurger, the clerk who was killed by the police by mistake, shall not he removed. They are determined to make a demonstration. which the authorities are anxious to prevent. Barricades have been thrown up in various parts of the city and defended by students when the police charged. Traffic Is suspended on the Boulevard St. Germain. Quai Voltaire, and Rue St Peres. All the public buildings are guarded by military. The startling suddenness with which the scuffle between the students and the police has developed Into bloody rioting causes the government anxiety. The original cause of the trouble has been quite lost sight of in the general rioting in which all the scum of southern Paris, re-enforced by the lawless vagabonds from Montmartre. Belleville, and other thieves’ rookeries north of the Seine, are taking the yart of the students. The agitation was solely caused by the manager of the students’ ball being fined for allowing girls to appear in a state little removed from nudity. The students, however, have generally withdrawn from the disorder, and the issue is now between the Paris canaille and the police.

CARAVELS IN CHICAGO. Models of the Colnmbug Ships Now at the World’s Fair. The Santa Marla, tho Plnta. and the Nina, tho long-looked-for Spanish caravels, are now in Chicago waters, having arrived Friday morning, and, anchored off the shore of the white city, they may he seen by all visitors. The vessels are exact reproductions of thoso used by Columbus, and the journey of 6,000 miles has been made that they might he exhibited at the World's Fair. They arrived at Jackson in tow, with sails furled, and were surrounded by the steam and sailing craft which acted as an escort. The revenue cutter Michigan, on board of which were the Spanish Commissioners, Signors Tocques and Vera, in brilliant uniform, was in the lead, and behind and at either side of the caravels were the other craft bearing the Mayor and City Council, distinguished citizens and yachtsmen, who went out to meet the commander of the little fleet whose voyage from the old world has been watched with such keen interest by the people of this country. At the grounds a splendid greeting awaited them. * JUDGE It LATCH FORD IS DEAD. The United States Supreme Court I.oses One of Its Members. ~ Justice “Samuel E. BJatcffTord, of the United States Supwlfie Court, died at his cottage in GUeetfougfc place, Newport, R 1., at 7:20 Friday evening. Death had seemed prjjbafSle for three days, hjjt It was not until three o’clock Friday afternoon that the family roalized that it was at hand. From that hour Judge Blatchford sank rapidly, passing away as if asleep. Mra Blatchford and Appleton Blatchford, the only son; also Dr. F. H. Rankin, his physician, were with him when ho died. Justice Blatchford arrived at his cottage about June 12, and three woeks ago Friday suffered two slight paralytic strokes, which bis physician described as partial loss of motion. The effect was general in character, and not upon any part of ihe body in particular, leaving the patient weak hut in full possession of all his faculties. For a time he transacted some husi - ness, hut about a week before his death this became impossible.

NATIONAL BANKS COLLAPSE. Five More Placed in Charge of Examiners —Other Business Troubles. Five national banks failed Thursday, as reported to Comptroller Eckels They were; The American National Bank of Pueblo. Col. ; the Central National Bank of Pueblo, Col.; the Puget Sound National Bank of Everett, Wash.; the National Bank of Ashland, Ashland, Neb.; and the First National Bank of Winston, N. Y. Comptroller Eckels has directed Examiner Brown to ussumo charge of the two failed banks at Pueblo, Examiner Hovlne of the failed Ashland bank. Examiner Cleary of the failed Everett Bank, and Examiner Carskadon of the failed Winston Bank. At Omaha, the American Savings Rank suspended, wltli deposits of $153,000 and assets of $259,000. It was involved by the embarrassment of the American Loan and Trust Company, through the latter’s enterprise, the Omaha and South Texas Land Company. L C. Lock & Co., merchantsof Alma. Ark., have been closed up on attachments aggregating $20,000, Receivers were appointed for the Northwestern Hardware Company, an Illinois corporation, with offices in Philadelphia.

WILL BE NO CABINET REPORTS. President Cleveland’s Message the Only Communication to the Extra Session. When Congress meets on Aug. 7 it will have no message other than that of President Cleveland’s to consider. The several Cabinet members will not prepare their reports on the transactions of their departments under the usual time at the beginning of September. A member of tbe Cabinet said to a Washington correspondent Wednesday morning that neither he nor any of his colleagues had called upon their subordinates to prepare any statements with regard to the work of their respective divisions for presentation at the extra session, and that unless there was some special matter to communicate the Cabinet officers would not be heard from by Congress except as they might be called upon to furnish information.

Ohio Prohibition Ticket. Ohio Prohibitionists have nominated the following State ticket: Governor. Rev. Gideon P. Machlin, of Germantown; Lieutenant Governor. S. H. Ellis, of Warren County; Treasurer, Abraham Ludlow, of Springfield; Attorney General, S. E. Young, of Portage; Supreme Court Judge. J. A. Gallaher, of Bellalre; Food and Dairy Commissioner, S. H. Todd, of Wakeman; member of the Board of Public Works, E. H. Brosius, of Clark County. Burned at the Stake. A most horrible drama was enacted Friday at Bardwell, Ky. Shortly after noon Charles Miller, the negro who murdered the Ray girls, was burnt to death at tbe stake. The deliberate execution of tbe brutal murderer was witnessed by crowds who came in all night long from various points. It was an orderly multitude, and the frightful fate of the man was looked upon as coolly as if it had been a decree of the court. Regulating Italy's Banks. Debate on tbe bank bill in the Rome Chamber of Deputies was tumultuous, but. the bin was passed. Boy Killed. Ralph Hunter, aged 13 years, was killed at Norwalk, Ohio, by the accidental discharge of a gun. Short Crop of Cotton. Reports which cover thoroughly the whole cotton-raising section of the United States make a very discouraging showing

for thl* year's crop, It is already certain that tho crop has beon badly damaged by unfavorable weather during tho past six weeks, that It has got a poor start, It being Injured by Insects and disease, and cunnot amount to an average yield. More serious still Is the prospect that further adverse weather, which may fairly be expected at this season, catching the belated crop in its present condition, will reduce the yield' still further. A few sections In Florida and Louisiana seem to be excepted from the fate that has overtaken the cotton territory generally, hut they are not extensive enough to make any material difference In the crop as a whole. SEIZES A WHARF. Oakland's Mayor Tears Up the Southern Pacific Tracks and Starts a Fight. The action of the Mayor and Street Superintendent of Oakland, Cal, In tearing up the Southern Pacific tracks and removing the fence built across the lower end of Broadway Is precisely similar to that of the Mayor of Long Island City, who tore up the track of an offending railroad. Broadway Is Oakland’s main thoroughfare, and Mayor Pardoe recently came to the conclusion that the street should be open to the water front, so that If any opposition ferry company wanted to land passengers there they could do so. The Mayor counts on the Chicago water front decision to sustain his action, hut the railroad attorneys declare that the United States Circuit Court has decided that the Southern Pacific has a title to this bit of water front. Meanwhile the opposition ferry between Oakland and ’Frisco is doing a land-office business, as it has cut rates from 15 cents to 5 cents.

IMPROVEMENT SHOWN. Influences Which Contribute to a Better Feeling in Business Circles. R. G. Dun & Co’s Weekly Review of Trade says: The tone in business circles has perceptibly Improved. This Is partly because banks have been made more hopeful of an early financial settlement by the calling of an extra session of Congress, partly because of some recovery In prices from the sudden depression which fallowed tho decision to close tbo India mints, and partly because crop prospects have clearly Improved, in spite of dismal reports from some sections. On the whole, there has been a little better distribution of goods to consumers, and perhaps the countermanding of orders given some months agp is not quite as frequent as it was last week. The more hopeful symptoms aro gladly noted, but while tho causes of depression remain it would be rash to calculate that difficulties will not reappear. Soon large sums of money will be required to move the crops and in the present stale of money markets some stringency is not improbable. Midwinter Fair la Assured. The executive committee of the California Midwinter Exposition organized at San Francisco by election of the following office/s: President and General Manager, M. H. de Young; Vice President, Irwin C. Stump; Treasurer, P. M. Lillenthal, of the Anglo-Callfornia Bunk A. Alexander: Contributions are flowing in, und the Mayor will increase the finance committee to fifty in order to help ihe work. A site will be selected In the Gulden Gate Park. The fair Is now rqgarded as a success, as the ls£dln.goppbnents G s the scheme have become Its warm adherents.

-Stirring Times at Montreal, y** On Saturday trouble,grew out of aspeech before the Christian Endeavor Convention at Montreal, hut the police prevented a riot Sunday hostile demonstrations were renewed, and it appearing that the police would be powerless to prevent trouble, 1,000 members of the Royal Scots, Victoria Rlflos, Prince of Wales Rifles, Garrison Artillery, and the Fusileers, were summoned to escort the Christian Endeavors through a mob of thousands of FrenchCanadians, who yelled, hooted, and sang the “Marseillaise.” Will Pension the Duke. From all accounts the Duke of Veragua Is speeding home only to find his house In Madrid in the hands of his creditors. r lhe Duke never was very rich. He owned only Ihe Colon mansion when be married a lady who brought him $500,000. He took to bull raising and wa9 successful, but not being satisfied sent $250,000 to the Paris bourse, where he has lost it all. It Is proposed to start a subscription, and a fund will he raised and presented to the Duke in the name of his children. Boom in Gold Mines. Tbo low price of silvor seems to have started a boom in Arizona gold properties. Several gold mines have been sold in the last mvnth, and a group of promising claims were sold Tuesday to Eastern men for SIOO.OOO. Negotiations for tho purchase of other claims are in progress

Chance for Life. Tbe death sentence of William Hartley, of llielby County, Tenn.. who was convicted of murder, has been commuted to life Imprisonment. Tbe Interior Department has ordered a stay In the sentence of the seven Choctaws at Wllberlon until an Investigation can be made. Robbed of Her Diamonds. Mme. Demorest, the publisher of the fashion magazine, was robbod of her diamonds, valued at $3,000, In Chicago tbe other night, the jewels being taken from her room In a Michigan avenue boardinghouse. European Fodder Scarce. Drought In many sections of Europe bids fair to ruin tbe agriculturists. Fodder is a total failure. Buckeye Jeweler In Trouble. George H. Luce, jeweler, was arrested at Columbus, Ohio, on a charge of operating a fence.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... s.l 25 @ 5 75 HOOS—Shipping Grades 300 ® 6 50 Sheep—Fair to Choice 4 00 ® 5 00 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 64?$@ 653$ COBN—No. 2 41 ® 42 Oats—No. 2 283$® 29 Rye—No. 2 49 @ 51 Butteb—Choice Creamery 19 ® 20 Eoos—Fresh 13>$@ 143$ Potatoes—New, per brl 200 ® 2 75 ' INDIANAPOLIS Cattle—Shipping 325 ®soo Hogs—Choice Light 350 ® 6 25 Sheep—Common to Prime 8 00 ® 4 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red... 69 ® 60 Cobn—No. 2 White 40 @ 403$ Oats—No. 2 White 34 ® 34'$ ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3no @ 5 oo Hogs 3 00 @6 25 Wheat—No 2 Red 62 @ 63 Cobn—No. 2 '37 ® 38 Oats—No. 2 30 @ 31 Rye-No. 2 45 ® 46 CINCINNATI. Cattle 300 @6OO Hoas 3 oo & 6 25 Sheep 3 00 & 500 Wheat—No. 2 Red 60 ® 603$ Cobn—No. 2 40'<.@ 4i's Oats—No. 2 Mixed Rye—No. 2. 53 ® 55 DETROIT. Cattle 3 00 @ 4 75 Hogs 3 co t« 7 25 Sheep 3 00 @ 4 2t Wheat—No. 2 Red 6535i9 66$j Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 30 & . 10 Oa.s—No. 2 White 34 ® 35 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 65 @ 66 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 4OH2® 413$ Oats—No. 2 White 31 @ 32 Rie 51 @ 53 BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... 3 50 @ 5 50 Hogs—Best Grades 400 ® 6 25 Wheat—No. 1 White... 69 ® 71 No. 2 Bed 67 @ 69 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 6335® 643$ COBN-No. 3 383$® 393$ Oats—No. 2 White 823$@ 333$ Rye—No. 1 60 @ 62 BaBLEY—No. 2 64 @ 56 POBK—Mess 18 75 @l9 25 NEW YORK. Cattle 3 60 @ 5 50 Hogs 3 00 ® 700 Sheep.. .. 800 ffl 4 50 Wheat—No. 2 Red 72 ® 73 Cobn—No. 2 49 @ so Oat*—Mixed Western 85 @ 33 Butteb—Creamery 17 <8 *1 POM-New ifofis.... ... 19 25 @l9 T*

HORROR AT THE FAIR

COLD-STORAGE BUILDING WAS A DEATH-TRAP. Seventeen Firemen Cremated in the Burning Uuilding They Leap from One Death to Another Below—A Sickening Sight. In Graves of Flame. The World’s Fair has received a baptism of fire and blood. Seventeen firemen were killed outright, others will die, and still others are seriously, injured including a number of spectators, while property inside tho grounds to the value of $250,000 has gone up in smoke. Shqrtly before two o’clock on Monday afternoon flames of fire were discovered darting out from the cupola of the cold storage building, 200 feet above the earth. The entire brigado of the World’s Fair fire department answered an alarm. The grounds were thronged with visitors, the heavens were blue above, a brisk north wind swept over the park, and the gaudy engines and carts seemed but to add to the holiday appearance of the scene. It was as if the fire department was out on dress

GENERAL VIEW OF THE FIRE IN THE DEADLY CUPOLA.

parade, and none of the thousands saw any menace in the little blaze away up at the crown of the big white building: Fire Marshal Murphy, who was among the first at the blaze, ordered his men to the row of long windows near the top of the tower and went up himself. But there was great difficulty in getting up hose or getting a stream to bear on the flames, which all the while were spreading swiftly down the tower. One big gust of wind after another awept down great sheets of flame, until the fire finally caught at the windows where the men were standing on a foothold not more than two feet wide. It was then that the most awful catastrophe met the eyes of the thousands of moaning, horrified spectators who, now aware of impending danger, stood in the avenues below watching the flames eating their way down to the men. The poor fellows on the window ledge were helpless. Their hands were full of hose and they had not noticed the flames so close. Suddenly there was an explosion—tho ammonia pipes had burst and flames belched everywhere from the windows of the tower between the unfortunate firemen and the ground. Chief Murphy himself had led his men on their perilous climb to the balcony, and when the fire broke out below he ordered them to save themselves. They could not go down as they had come up, for the interior of the tower was a roaring crater. They were completely surrounded and burning timbers began to fall from above. The poor fellows huddled together as close as possible at one corner

JUMPING TO DEATH.

hoping that their comrades below could reach the flames with streams of water or afford some other relief. But it was no use. They were surrounded by fire, with the roof one hnndred feet or more below them and the tower ablaze nearly all the way down. Futile Efforts to Escape* Some of the men tried to slide down the hose which had been drawn up. The first man who tried descended half way to the roof, where the flames flew out and caught him, and he dropped, doubtless dead before he struck the roof. Another and another tried it. The dark bodies were seen whirling through the air. The arms were outstretched and the garments were blazing. A rope dangled down from the high ledge. Men with flames biting their very faces fought to reach the rope. Some had fallen over to the roof, eighty feet below. One had leaped away out, his body lurching forward as he shot downward A man was seen to start downward on the rope through the boiling red mass. The rope snapped. His body turned over and over as it fell. From thousands of watching sufferers went up a groan, thousands of groans joined into one, and then there came shrieks as women fainted. For the building which had started to burn stood at the south of the grounds, just west from the central court of honor, and the multitude saw it all. They saw the firemen leap out through the circling flames to sure death below. They saw the higfc tower, wrapped flames,

tremble with doomed men still clinging to that crumbling ledge under the dome. They saw the bodies tumble into the great vat of flame. The crowd sickened at the hor-< rid sight. Women screamed, wept and fainted, children cried and strong men turned away and cursed in a helpless rage. Sixteen men jumped from the burning balcony, and, as the last oneeprang out, the tower, completely enveloped in flames, tottered and fell with a crash. The burning mass smashed through the roof, carrying with it the dead and wounded who had not been dragged to a place of safety. | But the horror did not end here. Three minutes after the fall of the tower the entire roof was ablaze. One hundred men were on it. So quickly did the fire spread that the ladders on the east and south sides were cut off. The only way of escape for the gallant hundred was down a single ladder at the north end of the building. Deeds of Heroism. The deeds of heroism and courage performed in the few minutes that it took to clear the roof will never all be told. Half a dozen brave fellows with the burning roof sinking beneath their feet rushed to the aid and rescue of Captain Fitzpatrick, who lay moaning, mangled and dying right in the seething mass of flame. Many others rushed to save their helpless fellows, who lay about with cruelly broken bodies, the result of the leap from the tower. Ev-

eryone who was not buried in the burning debris was lowered to the ground by ropes or in strong arms. Then the blistered heroes sought the north ladder. About them surged the fire. Flames curled around their legs, stabbed at their faces and licked off their mus'tacher, and eyebrows. But. here, as in the tower, there was no outcry, no struggle for precedence, no cowardice. Down the ladder they swarmed, by twos and

CAPT. FITZPATRICK.

threes and on both sides. The last man had scarcely left the roof then it fell with a roar. Ambulances came. Bodies, the smell of which made the nostrils sick, were hurried away. All the stretchers were smeared" with blood. The firemen, maddened by the fate of their comrades, fought in a reckless spirit of revenge. Soldiers and guards of a half-dozen nations held back the insane crowds. As the hospital filled up the building burned. It may never be known how many victims lay in it* fiery depths. With the aid of a detachment of infantry a fire line was formed and a passageway through the crowd was made for the ambulances. With this arrangement a large space east of the (i4th street gate became practically dear. On the north side stood the line of infantrymen resting on their rifles. On the east there were infantrymen and some French and Russian marines. On the south the fire engines chugged and pounded. Every few minutes an ambulance would dash across the space and there would be a flutter of excitement as guides in gray uniforms and guards in blue lifted something into it. At intervals down the front of the line of soldiers men in the hospital service stood grouped around the little red banners which showed their calling. The banners looked like the guidons and added to the strangeness of the scene, which* was half military in appearance. Back of the military line the great crowd massed itself and stared with stony faces over at the ghastly happenings across the way. Witnessed by Thousands.

Twenty thousand people saw the horror. When the tower fell on the unfortunates on the roof the groan that went up seemed to shake the skies. Army officers, whose faces never blanched in the face of death, covered their eyes, turned away and shuddered. Bearded men cried out and beat the air with impotent fists. Women swooned, and children stood transfixed with horror. When the terrible tragedy was at its height some one in the crowd shouted: “Run for your lives: the ammonia tanks are going to explode." A stampede ensued. Those nearest the building turned and dashed at the living walls behind them. Like a torrent the people swept back. Men, women, and children were thrown down and trampled on. For ten minutes the mass struggled to get away. Scores were hurt. Aside from the awful loss of life the fight with the flames was the most serious the World's Fair Department has had. The fire was an intensely hot one. Firemen, guards and workmen about the building were prostrated by the heat. If the wind had been from the west, instead of the northeast, the big Exposition buildings would have had the scare which struck along Stony Island avenue. Some of these buildings just across the street had a narrow escape. The oold-storage building was built up almost against the fence. More than 100 yards of fence were burned to the ground, and the hotel buildings opposite caught fire re.jfceatedly, but were saved by the earnest work of the firemen. Basil, Lockwood, the colored hero of the Ford Theater disaster at Washington, has been presented with a gold watch.

WIND’S AWFUL WORK.

OVER SEVENTY DEAD FROM lOWA’S STORM. Utter Desolation in the Devastated District— Homes Demolished and Crops Ruined—Gov. Boles Appeals for Aid— Death List Not Yet Complete. Ruin in Its Wake. More complete details from the cy-clone-swept section of Northwestern lowa do not diminish its horrors. The latest reports give the number of dead at seventy-four, and it is said at least five more will die, while the injured number considerably over one hundred. A conservative estimate places the whole number that were either killed or injured by the tornado at 250. At Pomeroy alone over fifty are dead. Five blocks of residences were completely swept • away, not more than kindling wood being left of them. The disaster is the most*dire one that has occurred in lowa since the Grinnell cyclone. The loss of life at Pomeroy is not so great as at Grinnell, but the destruction of property will tq more complete. At G o’clock Thursday evening a thousand happy people sat down to their tea-tables chatting cheerily, unconscious of impending danger. Friday morning more than half of them were wandering about homeless and half crazed, depending on charity for food and drink, while strangers were winding the grave-clothes around their dead. Every house left standing was a

hospital. Every citizen of Pomeroy mourns the loss of a relative or friend. Two hufldred families are homeless, many having lost all they owned. Hundreds of people poured in on every train to view the ruins, and to every'one of them the completeness of the havoc Wrought by the tornado was painfully apparent. Sixty-five acres of debris is what is left of Pomeroy now. Imagine a gigantic pile of lumber scattered in every direction over a broad prairie and you have a good picture of this wrecked lowa city. Nothing but the occasional shattered remains of a wall or the halfdestroyed gable of a dwelling rise above the level of the ground. The numerous trees that surrounded the town have been swept away so completely that it would be difficult to believe that one ever grew there. One hundred and twenty-five residences, most a story-and-a-half or two-story frame; seven churches, all frame; one brick and a

CHIEF MURPHY.

half-dozen frame business buildings constitute the total of buildings that were wrecked. Of course, the loss on these is total. All the other business houses, probably fifty, were more or less damaged. Those who are competent to judge aav the loss in the city will not be less than a quarter of a million. All In a Minute. The storm did its terrible work in one minute’s time. Just before dark great banks of black clouds massed in the southwest and another in the west. About 7 o’clock the two threatening piles moved toward one another and then joined. The clouds took on a green tint, which was pierced with the sun’s rays for a moment. Then darkness set in •rapidly. The elements seemed to form about the combined clouds, though scarcely a breeze stirred the tree-tops in the streets of Pomeroy. Those who were watching the phenomena say that a column of smoke like a cloud, dropped to the ground and gath-

ered in strength as it ■ advanced toward the • town. They recognized it as a cyclone and" gave the alarm. Many sought shelter in cellars and others mounted horses to flee from the path of the coming destruction. There was a dash of hail, a blinding flash of lightning and deafening peal of thunder. Men and women ran wildly about the streets shouting and gesticulating. The cyclone struck the town at the southwest among the scattering houses in the outskirts. Roofs and shingles and sides of buildings were wrenched loose and were thrown to one side. On to the more densely populated district the monster of destruction swept, leveling all before it and leaving in its wake a cloud of splinters and wrecked homes, death and demoralization. The people were panic stricken and fled here and there amid the flying timbers until stricken down to the earth, mangled, torn, and dead. While the tornado lasted it was pitch dark, except for the vivid flashes of lightning which lit the weird and awful scene. The rain came down in torrents,

SOLE SURVIVORS OF AN ENTIRE FAMILY.

THE SAELSON CAVE. WHERE TWENTY-TWO LIVES WERE SAVED.

the roar of the thunder and tho storm was deafening. The air was full of sticks, stcnes, mud, horses, cattle, pigs, chickens, houses, machinery, bricks, human beings, and everything that was unable to resist the force of the terrible tempest. It was all over in a few seconds. Oh, what a piteous spectacle greeted the eyes of the agonized survivors'. Dead people were on every side. Husband and wife lay on the ground, their glassy eyes turned heavenward and the bodies' rent and torn in the most cruel manner. and their, littlo babies were found stark dead, with their bisains o: zing out of their crushed skulls and their life blood soaking the sod beneath them. Rescuing parties at once set out, and the dead and wounded were brought in as fast as men could work. Tne telegraph and telephone lines were blown "down, and Ed Mastcrson set out on a horse to Manson for help. He succeeded in flagging Vice President Harahan’s special train, which flew back to Manson, and help from all the towns along the lino was soon on hand. Fifteen surgeons were soon caring for the wounded. The Good Templars’ Hall was turned into a hospital, and the old postolfice building did duty as a morgue. The shrieks of the wounded and the groans of the dying were mingled with the agonizing moans of those so suddenly bereft of their dear ones. It was a sight that beggars description. Sweep of the Storm. As shown by the accompanying map, the tornado started a short distance west of Cherokee and followed closely the Illinois Central Railroad, cutting a swath from one-quarter to one-half mile wide and completely demolishing

COURSE OF THE STORM.

everything in its path for a distance of sixtv miles. All along this striiJf in addition to the devastation wrought at Pomeroy, Fonda, Storm Lake, and other towns in its path, are wrecked homes and ruined farms. The actual loss of life in the path of the storm through the country cannot yet be accurately stated, but it is known to be great, and the damage to property is tremendous. Thousands of acres of corn alone have been destroyed. In many huge fields of corn nothing is left but the roots, and in some instances they have been torn out. It is difficult to estimate the loss, but it will reach far up in the thousands. Not a barn, or a house, or shed, or fence, or tree in the path of the storm stands. A swath was mowed through the biggest part of the woods. Huge trees were torn oflt by their roots and others equally as large were broken off at the place where their circumference was largest. Ten farmhouses and all their barns and outhouses between Pomeroy and Fonda have been wrecked. Only splinters of the largest buildings remain. GOV. BOII*. APPEALS FOR HELP. % _____ He Issues a Proclamation Describing: the Scope of the Disaster. Gov. Boies was telegraphed as to the scope of the disaster and appealed to for aid. Whereupon the Governor immediately took the train for Pomeroy. On arriving there and looking over the dbsolate waste, he issued the following proclamation: To the People of Iowa: From a personal examination of the ruin wrought by the storm of last evenintr I find that forty-two are already dead and upward ol 100 are seriously injured in this town, which had a population of 1,000 souls. The great bulk of the residence portion of the town is completely destroyed and hundreds of families are homeless and destitute, In at least one town west of here eight or ten are said to have been killed and many injured. The necessity for aid is imperative. The good people in towns adjacent to Pomeroy have supplied immediate wants for board and clothing, but it is impossible for them to supply all that will be needed in the future. Money, however, is the great necessity of the hour. We must not only help these people to live, but we must aid them to rebuild their destroyed homes. Permit me to recommend that in every city and towh of the State Immediate steps be instituted by the Mayors and municipal officers to organize relief committees and promptly proceed to collect and forward aid. Thiß may be directed to the “Relief Committee of Pomeroy, lowa," which will be organized during the day, and will consist of thoroughly responsible persons of this and other towns; so that aid will be fairly and equitably distributed to all who are in want. Citizens of lowa, it is no exageration for me to say that no more deserving appeal was ever made ta yon for aid. Be sure that yon are both prompt and liberal. Horace Boies, Governor of lowa. Gov. Boies’ appeal met with quick response from all parts of the State, and in a short while over $2,000 had been received by telegraph and mail. The Illinois Central sent relief trains from Fort Dodge, Manson, and Cherokee, with physicians and citizens to assist in taking care of the people, and

they did noble work. Unde -takers and coffins were also sent from various points. Carl ads of provisions have since been arriving by every train, and enough clothing to supply all the survivors is stacked up in the building used as the headquarters of the committee. What is needed now is rncney. The victims have plenty to eat and wear, but they are in most cases penniless. What little they had was their homes and what there was in them, but these have been blown away. Money to rebuild them is what the relief committee is calling now, and their needs are -likely to be. promptly met. Abundant evidence of' this was received in a telegram from the Mayor of Sioux City saying SI,OOO had been raised there. Another from Des Moines announced that a like amount had been contributed at the capital. Emmetsburg sent SIOO, and many towns are coming to the front in good shape. In 1890 5,735 new books and reprints were issued in Great Britain.