Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 48, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 April 1898 — Page 6

Story of the Sunday Evening Submergence of the Pretty Illinois Town.

EXTENT OF THE CALAMITY NOT KNOWN. Hundreds of Lives, However. Must Have Been Lost. Owing to the Suddenness of the Onrush of Water, Which Carried Off Houses and Their Occupants Like Plaything* -Some of the Incidents. Chicago, April 4.—A special to the Chronicle from Carmi, 111., says: Sunday night's disaster at Shavrneetown, 111., came when the great majority of the people were in their homes mating supper. The break in the levee occurred a mile above the town and was, within ten minutes, more than half a mile wide. A stream of water 12 to 23 feet deep, carrying half of the current of the Hood-raised Ohio, descended on the unsuspecting people. It came down in a great rush like a tidal wave. There was no slow rising of the waters to give warning. The houses on the outI nkirts were lifted up and rolled over / and over. Most of them were torn into apiinters. Their inhabitants were browned in them. Nearer the center of the town some brick structures stopped the on-rush of the water for a lew minutes, but about t\vp-thirds of the dwellings were lifted from their . foundations, and floated careening out into the current of the river. , After a few minutes the horror of the situation was added to by the catching fire of a large house that had started u stream with the others. ‘The people on the n>4>fs were already in danger of beiug thrown off by collisions with other floating houses, hut the appearance of thisr floating fire,.brand added horror. As it struck one' liouse after another in its zig-zag course some caught fire, and the unfortunate people were compelled to intrust themselves to the mercy of the nwirling water on pieces of wood to avoid a more terrible death by lire. The break in the levee flooded four miles of the valley laud and out off communication ou two railroads, the Baltimore Jc Ohio Southwestern and the Louisville <& Nashville. The first rush of the eurrent did not 'do all the damage. When the water ihad slackened somewhat many houses were still standing, but it was quickly «een that some of the frame ones would not last in the crush of the flood. Uy menus of rafts and swimming in the cold water 70 or SO people were transferred from their garret windows and roofs -to tiie flat tbps of the lialletiu county bank, a brick and stone building, and the courthouse, which is of brick. It was hoped that these would withstand the pressure and undermining, but when the single courier, who rode . for help to Cypress Junction left Sh iwneetown only those .two buildinga ah owed above the broad sheet of iihe Hood in the lower part of the town, ami its fii.il force was being thrown Against them. It was doubtful is they would not eollapse and throw the refugees into the riv^r. Beside the hundred or more who were on the roofs of the sound buildings, it is known that nearly a thousand of the inhabitants managed, in one way or another, to make their way to the high hills behind the town or to the houses in the high section of the village itself. A .. few of these survived the sudden burst of the water, but taeir lirst aud sometimes their second floors were under water. Those who made their way to them w£nt only in. the clothes they were wearing when the water came. None had time to secure either treassure or clothing. The property loss is -very heavy. The scene in the street at the upper •end of the town, where men ami women "Were struggling against the'iuuhdy waiters to higher ground. some carrying babies ou their heads, where water was up to their necks, others half swimming, half floating on odds and ; ends of lumber from homes that had gone floating down the river, many •trhifgding in vain and sinking in the roaring waters, was one that will i.ve in the memory of every beholder. Atone place a mother had reached a .safe spot aud turned to help her hu>- j band who had followed with their v child. A* she reached down from a window for his hand he was thrown from his footing and he and the child vwerc swept away in the swift eurrent. * Another family pad .lieu ualf-way to i safety on a plans which half held mem out of the water. A side curreut caught them aud swept them out toward the aniddle of the stream where, iu the rougher water, they were seen to capmze and tank. ♦ |

An o!u mr.ii or therntrac of Unma. i living on hit'll grouuic'5t*pped in the j upper story of bis trembling house to I I sseeure m board of money hidden under ^hc bed. His son, a young man of -1, had to climb upon the porch to rescue j him, soquflk was the r;»e ol the vva- j ter, and when the two attempted to ^swim for safety, the .younger nun supporting the other, a floating house that came rolling and tumbling on the current overw helmed them. A school-teacher, whose name is supposed to be Josephson. was warned of j the danger in time to get to the high jrroond, but in turning back to help her ‘ mother was caught with the eider woman in an eddy and they were drowned. One woman made an effort to save hex lover by throwing a clothes line to him from the roof of her house. 11 is house was swept away at the moment and he was thrown into the water, tic swam to aid the girl, but she was standing on the side of a gable roof and was pulled from her insecure footing. Both were drowned, their bodies floating off in the flood.

COMMODORE SCHLEY READY. ■m Notified the Authorities at Warilaf too that He Gu.Ml aft aa Boor's Notice. Vobt Monroe, Va., April 4.—Com mod ore W. 8. Schley will to-day notify the authorities at Washington that, with the arrival Of the Texas, he will be ready to move at an hour's notice. The mpst formidable squadron of fast fighters ever gotten together is complete with the exception of the Texas. The cruiser Minneapolis began at noon yesterday to change her coat,and i the painting will be finished to-day at j noon. Her bunkers are filling with j coal and, like the other vessels cf the fleet, she is fully ammunitioned. Commodore Schley expects the battleship Texas within the next twenty- j four hours. Despite the enforcement j of the Sunday observance law in New- I port News, which has had the effect of ; stopping Sunday work on the battle- j ships Kearsarge and Kentucky, the divers, three in number, continued work j on the bottom of the battleship Massa- , chusetts yesterday, and made such | | progress that Capt. Higginson believes ; j they will be able to finish by nightfall j to-day. The week on the Brooklyn hits been l fully completed, and her eight-inch i turret guns will notv throw a much ; greater distance. The Columbia has 1 finished painting and coaling, and is in | splendid condition. Commodore Scblev understands the Texas is thoroughly i completed in improvement, is painted the prevailing lead color and is all ready i for sea as soon as she arrives here. Varying as are the opinions as to this i assemblage of fighting boats, it is generally admitted by naval and army men here that it is imposing. In addition Co the active naval preparation here. Fort Monroe is being improved rapidly. The dynamos, for the j big electric searchlight were adapted Saturday night, and the light is now in operation. The emplacements for the rapid-fire and disappearing guns | will be finished this week, and this im ! portant point will then be in some 1 what modern condition from a wSi ; standpoint. Commodore Schley will probably take . the Brooklyn out to sea to-day to try her turret guns.

WILL BE READY IN AMPLE TIME | Important Aunoancemeaf of the Chief Architect of the tna»mlMlwippl Ef position at Omaha.' Neb. Omaha. Xeb., April 4.—The announcement was made yesterday upon authority of the chief architects of the Transmissi&sippi exposition that all construction work will be finished iu ample time for the installation of exi hi bits and the perfection of concessions by the opeuing day, June 1. The large buildings are nearly ready ‘. for the artistie decorations save the ; fine arts building and the immense structure which the United States government is building. On the latter the : staff work is nearly done, and the domt ; is receiving the finishing touches. The i concessionaires are pushing construction work rapidly, as are the various states. 15 of which are erecting buildings. * A telegram from Albany says the Empire state has made an ample appropriation which will enable the state commission, of which Chauneey Mi Dope and Dr. Seward Webb are the [ leading spirits, to make a large state exhibit. The governor of Indiana has Sppointed a state commission, which will prepare a state exhibit. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhoie island and other eastern states arc arranging for state exhibits. NOT ALL BEER AND SKITTLES. ' M.tilrUt Xew»;>aper« Itegard War at Inevitable, as Nothing WUl Satisfy th« I nllrd State*. Madiup. April 4.—The majority o» the newspapers here regard war as inevitable. They think Gen. Stewart L. Woodford has communicated a final ati^w er to the government. El Liberal >ays: " it i* clear that no concession* will satisfy the Uniteil States exeept the independence of Cuba, and we had better immediately end the uncertainty.” i'iie whole article of the Liberal on the subject is betlic***? in to>ne. rhe l‘»k asserts that “great uneasiness prevails at Washington coneeraiug the attitude of Guv southern states iu ease of war with Spain: and also because the Spaniards are organizing is Mexico to invade the state*, from the Mexican republic.” In conclusion the Pais asserts that **lt will n >t be all beer and skittles” for the United States. Much excitement was caused during the day by the receipt of a dispatch Maying it is expected that the passports of the Spanish minister at Washington will be handed to him on Yues day.

UUtory of Our New I'raUtr. London. April i—The cruiser which aeuteuant-CocnmanderColwell. United states naval attache here, purchasedSaturday from the Thames iron works, ami over which he hoisted the Star* and Stripes, was built by the Thames iron works for Peru. It was tinished during the war between Peru and Chili, aiul the British government would not permit it to leave on aaoonnt of the neutrality law. k Kxprrt Marrhloc Urdus. CuTKi-A^iO. O.. April A—Leeuten-anl-Commander George B. ’McKay, of the naval reserves, was in communication with Adji.-Gcn. Aline yesterday, 1 and received orders to recruit the Cleveland div siou up to ita war strength. The Ohio brigade will be organised at once by recruiting four additional divisions, one at Toledo, j another at Sandusky, a third at Ashta- j bula and a fourth here. Commander j McKay was ordered to rush the work j of uniforming .the men. Commander j McKay told some of hi* men that be j •vpected order* to move at oaoe.

SPIRIT OF HAZARD. Rev. Dr. Talmage v Gambling Habit. Arraigns the Om of the 3CM* Stupendous of Krtls— Whether In Church or UsobU>| HeU Its Influence Is Squally Pernicious.

In the following sermon the spirit of hazard is severely arraigned by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, and the path to perditionof the gamester clearly pointed oat. 'The test is: Aceldama, that is to say, the field of blood.— Acts L. 18. The money that Tudas gave for surrendering Christ was used to purchase ; a graveyard. As tne money was blood- j mo ney, the ground bought by it was j called in the Syriac tongue, “Aceldama,” meaning “The field of blood.-’ Well, there is one word l want to write to-day over every raee-course where wagers are staked, and every pool- | room, and every gambling saloon, and every table, public or private, where j men and women bet for sums of money, , large or small, and that is a word incarnadined with the life of innumer- j able victims—Aceldama. The gambling spirit, which is at all times a stupendous evil, ever and anon sweeps over the country like an epi- ] demie, prostrating uncounted thousands. There has never been a worse attack than that from which all the i villages, towns and cities are now suf- j fering. While among my hearers and readers are those who have passed on into the afternoon of life, and the shadows arc lengthening, and the sky crimsons with the glow of the setting sun, a large number of them are in early life, and the morning is coming down out of the clear sky upon them, and the bright air is redolent with spring blossoms. and the stream of life, gleaming and glancing, rushes on between tlowery banks, making music as it goes. Some of you are engaged in mercantile 1 concerns, as elerks and book ke pars, and your whole life is to be passed in the exciting world of traffic. The sound of busy life stirs you as the | drum stirs the fiery war horse. Oth- | ers are in the mechanical arts. to ham- ; mer and chishel your way through life, \ and success awaits you. Some are pre- ! paring for professional life, and grand ; opportunities are before you; nay, I some of you already have buckled on i the armor, liut. whatever your age ; aad calling, the subject of gambling, about which I speak to-day, is perti- ; neat. | Some years ago, when an association for the suppre don of gambling was organized, an agent of the association came to a prominent citizen and asked him to patronize the society, lie said: “No. 1 can have no interest in such an organization. I am in no wise affected by the evil.” At that very time his son. who was his partner in business, was one of the heaviest players in a famous gambling establishment. Another refused his patronage on the 1 same ground, not knowing that his first bookkeeper, though receiving a salary of only 54.000. was losing from fb J to $100 per night. The president’ of ; a railroad company refused to patronize the institution, saying: “That sock ty is good for the defense of merchants, but we railroad people are not * injured by this evil;" not knowing that * at that very time two of his conductors | were spending three nights of each ) week at faro tables in New York. Di- ! reetiy or indirectly this evil strikes at I the whole world. ! Humbling is \he risking of something ; more or less valuable in the hope of j winning more than you hazard. The | instruments of gaming may differ, but j the principle is the same. The shuf- ’ fling and dealing cards, however full i of temptation, is not gambling unless stakes are put up; while, on the other | hand, gambling may be carried on i without cards, or dice, or billiards, or a ten-pin alley. The man who bets on i horses, or elections, on battles, the i man who deals in “fancy" stocks, or i conducts a business which _ hazards ! extra capital, or goes into transactions without foundation, but dependent upon what men eall “luck." is a gum- . bier. Whatever von expeet to get from your neighbor without offering an equivalent in money, or time, or skill, is either the product o? theft or gaming. Lottery tickets and lottery policies come into the same category, i bazaars for the founding of hospitals, schools and churches, conducted on the raffling system, come under the same denomination. Do not. therefore, associate gambling Necessarily with any instrument, or game, or time, or place, or think the principle depends upon whether you play for a glass of wine or 100shares of national stock. Whether you patronize “auction pools,” “French mutuals." or “bookmaking," whether you employ faroor billiards, rondo and

kenoy earns or bagatelle. the very idea of the thing is dishonest: for it professes. to bestow upon you a good for which you give no equivalent. This crime is no new born sprite, but a haggard transgression that comes staggering down under a mantle of eurses through many centuries. All nations, barbarous and civilised, have been addicted to it. But now the laws of the whole civilized world denounce the system. Enactments have been passed, but only {partially •••forced, and at times not enforced at »*L The men interested in gaining houses, and in jockey clubs, wield such induence by their numbers and affluence, that the judge, the jury and the police odicer must be bold indeed who would -array themselves against these infamous establishments. The house of commons of England actually adjourns on Derby day that members may attend the races; and in the best circles of society in this country to-day are many hundreds of professedly respectable men who are acknowledged gamblers. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in this land are every day won mad lost

through' sheer gambling. Says a traveler through the west: “I hare traveled 1,000 miles at a time upon the western waters, and seen gambling at every waking moment from the com- < mencement to the termination of the journey. ” The southwest of this country reeks with this sin. In some of those cities every third or fourth house in many of the streets is a gaming place, and it may be truthfully averred that each of our cities is cursed with this evil. .

-Men wisning to gamoie wui uuu places just suited to their capacity, not only in the underground ouster-cellar, or at the table back of the curtain covered with greasy cards, or in the steam boat smoking cabin, where the bloated wretch with rings in his ears deals out his pack, and winks on the unsuspecting traveler—providing free drinks all around—but in gilded parlors and amid georgeous surroundings. This sin works ruin,* first, by providing an unhealthful stimulant. Excitement is pleasurable. Under every sky and in every age men have bought it. We must at times have exeitement. A thousand voices in our nature demand it. It is right. It is healthful. It is inspiriting. It is a ijesire God-given, llut anything that first gratifies this appetite and hurls it back in a terrific reaction is deplorable and wicked- ( Look out for the agitation that, like a j rough musician, in bringing out the tune plays so hard he breaks down the instrument! God never made a man strong enough to endure the wear and tear of gambling excitements. A young man having suddenly inherited a large property, sits at the hazard tables, and takes up in a dice j box the estate won by a father's life- j time sweat, and shakes it and tosses it ' away. Intemperance soon stigmatizes j its victim, kicking him out. a slavering j fool, into the ditch, or sending him, j with the drunkard's hiccough, stagger- ; ing up the street where his family lives. But gambling does not in that I way expose its victims. The gambler j may be eaten up by the gambler's pas-; sion. yet you only discover it by the greed in his eyes, the hardness of his features, the threadbare coat, and his embarrassed business. Yet he is on the road to ruin, an.l no preacher's ' voice, or startling warning, or wife s entreaty, can make him stay for a moment his headlong career. The infernal spell is on him: a giant isaroused within; and though you bind him with cables, they would part like thread, and though you fasten him seven times around with chains, they would sn»p like rusted wire; and though you piled up in his path Heaven-high Bibles, tracts and sermons. and on the top sheuld set the cross of the Son of God, over them all the gambler would leap like a roe over the rocks, on his way to perdition. “Aceldama, the field of blood!" Again, this sin works ruin by killing industry. A man used to reaping scores or hundreds of dollars from the gam- > ing table will not be content with slow ! work. He will say: “What is the use j of trying to make these $30 in my store j when 1 can make five times that in half an hour by the dice?" You never j knew a continued gambler who was industrious. The men given to this vice spend their time not actively employed > in the game in idleness or intoxication, | or in or in new victims. This sin has duii.d the car-! perter's saw ami cut the band of the , 1 factory wheel, sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the farmer's harrow, and sent a strange lightning to shatter vhe I battery of the philosopher. The very 1 first idea of gaming is at war with ail 1 the industries of society. Any trade or occupation tha: is of use is ennobling. The street sweeper advances the interests of society by the cleanliness effected. The eat pays for j the fragments it eats by clearing the ; house of vermin. Tu ■ fly that takes i the sweetness from the dregs of the cup compensates by purifying the air and keeping back the pestilence. But the gambler gives not anything for that which he takes. 1 recall that sentence. He does make a return, but it is a disgrace to the man he fleeces, despair to his heart, ruin to his business, anguish to his wife, shame to his children and eternal wasting away to his soul, lie pays in tears and blood and agony and darkness and woe. What duh work is plowing to the farmer when in the %-illage saloon in one night he makes and loses the value of a summer harvest! Who Will want to sell tapes and measure nankeen and cut garments and weigh sugar, when in a night's game makes and loses and , loses and makes again and loses again J the profits of a season? John I Jo rack was sent as a mercantile agent from Bremen to Englaud and this country. After two years his employers mistrusted that all was not ; right. He was a defaulter for ; It was found that he had lost in Lombard street, London. S'gXOOO; in Fulton street. New York. $10,000. and in New Orleans, S3.000. He was imprisoned, but afterwards escaped and went into the gambling profession. He died in a 1 lunatic asylum. This crime is getting * its lever under many a mercantile j house in our cities, and before long j down will come the great establishment, crushing reputation, home comfort and immortal souls. How it diverts and sinks capital may be inferred from some authentic statement before us. The ten gaming houses that once were authorized in Paris passed through the banks yearly 123,000,0001

Furthermore, this sin is the source of dishonesty. The game of hazard itself is often a cheat- t?*ra many tricks and deceptions in the dealing of the cards! The opponent's hand is often found out by fraud. Curds are marked so that they may be designated from the back. Expert gamblers have their accomplices, and one wink may decide the game. The dice have been found loaded with piatina, so that doublets come up every time. -These dice are introduced by the gamblers unobserved by the honest men who have come into the piny, and this accounts for the fact that 90 out of Ito who gamble, however wealthy when 1

they begun, at the end are found to be poor, miserable, haggard wretches, that would not now be allowed to sit >n the doorstep of the house that they >nce owned. In a gaming-house in San Francisco, % young man having just come from the mines, deposited a large sum upon the nee and won $22,000. But the tide turns. Intense anxiety comes upon the countenances of all. Slowly the cards went forth. Every eye is fixed. Not a sound is heard until theace is revealed favorable to the bank. ^There are shouts of “Foui! Foul!” but the keepers at the tables produced their pistols, and the uproar is silenced, and the bank has won $05,000. Do you call this a game of chance? There is no chance about it.

\> hen things go wrong at a gaming table they shout: “Foul, foul!'’ Over all the gaming tables of the world I ery out: “Foul, foul! Infinitely foul!’ “Gift stores" are abundant throughout the eountrv. With a book, or knife, or sewing machine, or coat, or carriage, there goes a prize. At these stores people.get something thrown in with their purchase. It may be a gold watch or a set of silver, a ring or a farm. Sharp way to get off unsalable goods. . It has filled the land with fictitious articles, and covered up our population with brass finger rings, and despoiled the. moral sense of the community, and is fast making us a nation of gamblers. The gambling spirit has not stopped for auy indecency. There transpired in Maryland a lottery in which people drew for lots in a burying ground! The modern habit of betting about everything is productive of immense mischief. The most healthful and innocent amusement of yachting and baseball playing have been, the occasion of putting up excited and extravagant wagers. That which to many has been advantageous to body and mind has , been to others the means of financial and moral loss. The custom is pernicious iu the extreme, where scores of men in respectable life give themselves up to betting. now oh this boat, now on that; now on this ball club, now on i that. Betting, that once was chiefly i the.accompaniment of the race-course, ! is fast becoming a national habit, aud j in some circles any opinion advanced j 0$ finance or politics is accosted with ! the interrogation: “How much will you bet on that, sir?" This custom may make no appeal to slow, lethargic temperature^. but there are in the country tens of thousands of quick, nervous, sanguine, excitable temperaments, ready to be acted upon, and their feet will soon take hold on death. For some months, aud perhaps for years, they, will linger ift the more polite and elegant circle of gamesters, but after awhile their pathway will come to the fatal plunge. Shall 1 sketch the history of the gambler? Lured by bad company, he finds his way into a place where honest men ought never to go. lie sits down to his firs: game, but only for pastime, and the desire of being thought sociable. The players deal out the cards.. They unconsciously play into Satan's hands, who takes all thb trieks and both the players' souls for trumps— , he being a sharper Tat tile g&me. A , slight stake is put up. just {o ad<i interest to the play. Game after game is played. Larger stakes and still larger. They begin to move nervously on their chairs. Their brows lower, and eyes flash, until now they who win and they who lose, fired alike with passion, sit with set jaws, and compressed lips, and elinyhed fists, and eyes like fireballs that seem starting from their sockets, to see the final turn before it comes: if losing, pale with envy and tremulous with unuttered oaths east back red-hot upon the heart —or winning—with hysteric laugh— ■*lia. ha! 1 have it!" . j A few years have passed, and he is ; only the wreck of a man. Seating him- | seif at the game, ere he throws the first eard, he stakes the last relie of his wife—the marriage ring which 1 scaled the solemn vows between them. The game is lost, and staggering back in exhaustion he dreams. The bright hours of the past mock his agony, and in his dreams, fiends with eves of fire and tongues of flame eireie about him | with joined hands, to dance and sing ■ their orgies with hellish chorus, chanting: “llail brother!" kissing his clammy forehead until their loathsome locks, flowing with serpents, crawl into his bosom, and sink their sharp fangs and suck up his life's blood, and coiling around his heart, pinch it with chills and shudders unutterable.

Take warning-! You are no stronger than tens of thousands who have by this practice been overthrown. No young man in our cities can escape be* ing tempted. Beware of the first beginnings! This road is a down grade, and every instant increases the momentum. Launch not upon this treacherous sea. splint hulks strew the beach. Everlasting storms howl up and down, tossing unwary craft into the hellgatc.* 1 speak of what 1 have seen with my own eyes. To a gambler's death-bed there' comes no hope. He will probably die alone. His former associates come not nigh his dwelling. When his hour comes his miserable soul will go out of a miserable life into a miserable eternity. As his poor remains pass the house where he was ruined, old companions may look out for a moment and say: “There goes the old carcass—dead at last," bat they will not get op from .the tahle. Let him down now into his grave. Plant no tree to cast its shade there, for the Jong, deep, eternal gloom that settles there is shadowy enough. Plant no 4 ‘forge t-me nots" or eglantines around the spot, for dowers were not made to grow/on such a blasted heath. Visit it ia the sunshine, for thrt would be mockery, but ia thp dismal night, when no stars were out, and the spirit of darkness comes down, horsed on the wind, than visit the grave of the gambler. Philip Richards fell from a roof at St. Look and sustained fatal injuries. j

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