People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — A TEMPLE BURNED. [ARTICLE]

A TEMPLE BURNED.

Flames Once More Destroy l>r. Talmage’s Tabernacle in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, May 15. —Just after services at noon Sunday and while Dr. Talmage was shaking hands with members of his congregation fire burst out between the pipes of the organ and within ten minutes the big taberuacle was doomed to total destruction. Adjoining the church was the Hotel Regent, eight stories in height, with a frotage of 90 feet on Clinton avenue and extending back 200 feet to Waverly avenue. The fire spread from the tabernacle to this hotel and then to the dwelling houses on Greene and Waverly avenues, opposite the tabernacle. The wind carried the blazing cinders in such quantities in a southeasterly direction that dwelling houses in Washington avenue, two squares away, and also the Summerfield Methodist church were set on fire by them; but the greatest loss on any one of these structures did not exceed $15,000. The total loss, however, reaches over $1,400,000. Dr. Talmage said that he thought electric lights caused the fire, as it did that which destroyed the last tabernacle on Schermerhorn street.