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' . - - . i ' - We call special attention to our Patent Roller Flour, EQUAIj to the best. Please give us a Call wlien in wan '-i ' -.1 ' ' ': " '- .-'-, s '.-'.. - of any tiling in our Line. i T VERT RESFECTFDLI.T, HENDRIX BROS.; . WHOLESALE AXD BETAIL . . i " . - ' ' ' - :' . : ; -. " GROCERS, East Market St., Opposite Planters' Hotel . ami 'I U. S. Court House. - - - 4 . - ; -: -. -' - j , GREEnSBORO. N. 0. ; DK. 1TALMAGE. THE BROOKIiYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY f 'SERMON. Subject: "Concerning the JSigets: Te jct:. lc Then - said they unto him,- say iow Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth; for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him at the pas sages of Jordan." J udges xii, 6. Do you notice the difference of pronuncia" tion between shibboleth and sibboleth? A very small and unimportant difference, you say. And yet that difference was .the differ ence between life and death for a great many people. The .Lord's paople, Gilead and Ephraim, got into a great fight, and Ephraim was worsted, iand on the retreat camd to the fords ? of the . rivef , JoMan . td cross. Order waBgivett that all Euphraim ites coming ihBrtj should be slain. But how tbiild lb .. be found out who , .were Kphraimites? They were detected by their pronunciation, t Shibboleth was a -word that stood for river. 'The Ephraimites had a brogue of their own, and when they tried to say shibboleth always left out the sound of the "h." When it was asked that they say shibboleth they said sibboleth, and were slain. 'Then said they unto him. Say now Shibbo leth ; and he said Sibboleth, for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him at the passage of Jordan.' Avery, small difference, you say, between Gilead and Ephraim, and vet how much jns tolerance about that small diflfer'ncA, Thd Lord's tribe in pur time by- which I mead the different denominations of Christians sometimes magnify a very small difference, and the only difference between scores of de nominations to day is the difference between shibboleth and sibboleth. The church of God is divided into a great number of denominationa Time would fail me to tell of the Calvinisti, aud the Armin ians, and the Sabbatarians, and the Baxter ians, and the DunTcers, and the Shakers, and the Quakers, and the Methodists, and the Baptists, and the Episcopalians, and the Lutherans, and the Congregaticnalists, and the Presbyterians, and the Spiritualists, and a score of other denominations of religionists, some of them founded by very good men, some of them founded by very egotistic men, and some of them founded by very bad men. But as I demand for : myself libertv of con science, I must give that Same liberty to every other man, remembering that he nd more differs from mo than I differ from him: I advocate the largest liberty in all religious belief and form of worship. In art, in politics, in moral, and in religion let there be no gag law, no moving of the previous question, no persecution, no intolerance. . You know that the aif and the water keep pure by constant circulation, and I think there is a tandency in religious discussion to purification and mornl h ja'tth. Between the Fourth and the Sixteenth centuries the church proposed to make people think aright by pro hibiting discussion and by strong censorship of the press, and by rack, and gibbet, and hot lead down the throat, tried to make peo ple ortho lox; but it was discovered that you cannot change a man's belief by twisting off his head, and that you cannot make a man see things different v by putting an awl through his eyes. There is something in a man's conscience which will hurl Off the mountain that you throw upon it, and, nn singed of the fire, out of the flame will make red wings on which the martyr will mount td glory. i - - - . In that time o'whi :h I sreakj betwe3p. th4 Fourth and Sixteenth, centuries, people went from the house of God . into tho mo.t appal ling iniquity, and right along by consecrated altars there were tides of drunkenness and licent:ou-ness su:h as the world never hard of, and the very sewers of perdition broke loose an 1 flooded the church. After a while the printing press was f ,ieed. and it broke the shackles of the hman mind. - Then there came a large number of bad books, but where there was one man hostile to the Christian religion there were twenty men ready to ad vocate it; S3 I have not any nervousness in regard to this battl going on between truth and error. ; i The truth will conquer just as certainly as that God is stronger ; than the deviL Let error run if you only let truth run along with it Urged; on by skeptic's shout and transcendentalist's tpur, let it run. God's angels of wrath ahi : ia hot pursuit, and quicker than eagle's beak catches out a hawk's heart God s vengeance will tear it to p'eces. '. i Ipropose this morning to speak to you of seer tananism its origin, its evils and its curses. There are those who would make us think that this monster, with horns and hoofs is religion. I shall chase it to its hiding placo, and drag it out of the caverns of darkness and rip off his hide. Fut I want to make a distinction between bigotry, and the lawful fonincs? for peculiar religious beliefs and forms of worship. ; I have no admiration for a nothingarian. i ; i : In a world of such tremendous vicissitude and temptation, and with a soul that must after a while stand before a throne of insuf ferable brightness in a day when the rock ing of the mount ins anl the flaming of the heavens and the upheaval of the-saa shall be among the least of the excitements, to give account for every thought, word, action, E reference and dislike that man is mad who as no religious preference. ; But our early education, our physical temperament; our mental constitution will very much decide our form of worship, t : ; A style of psalmod that may please me may displease youi Some would like to have a minister in gown, and bands, and surplice, and others prefer to have.-a minister in plain citizen's apparel. Some are most impresed when a little cMld is presented at the altar and sprinkled with the waters of a holy bene diction "in the name of the Father, and-of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost;" and others are more impressed when the penitent comes up out of the river, hi garments drippiag with the wafers of a baptism which signifies the washing away of sin. Let either have his own way. ; One man likes no noise in nraver. not a word, not a whisper. - Another I man just as good prefers by gesticulation and exclamation to exp ress nis aevotaonai aspira tions. - One is; just as good as the other.' "Every man fully persuaded in his own George "Whitefield was going over a Quaker ratner roughly for some or ms religious senti ments, and the Quaker said: "George, I am as thou art: I am for bringing all men to the hope of the Gospel ; therefore, if thou wilt not quarrel with me about my broad brim, I will not quarrel with thee about thy black gown. " George, give me thy haud. " L In tracing out the religion of sectarian ism, or bigotry, I find that a great deal of. it comes from wrong education in the home circle, i There are parents who do not think tj narifnnra nrtH ir tha neculiar forms o? religion in the world and denounce other sects and other "denominations. It is a ery often the case that that kind of educa tion acts justs opposite to what was. expected, and the chiidren grow up and, after a while go and see for themselves; ' and looking in those churches, and finding that the people are good there, and they love God ana keep his commandments, by natural reaction they -go and join those very churches. I could mention the names of prominent ministers of the gospel who spent their whole lives bom hard in ei- other denominations, and who lived to see their children preach the Gospel in those very denominations. "But it is often th case that bigotry starts in a household and "that the subject of it never recovers. Ther "are tens of thousands of bigots 10 years old. I think sectarianism and bigotry also rise from too great prominence of any one de nomination in a community. ; All the other denominations are wrong, and his denomina tion is right because his denomination is ths mo3t wealthy, or the most popular, or th most influential, and it is "our" church, and "our" reli2pous organization, and "our" choir, and "our" minister, and tha man tosses his head and wants other denominations to know their places. , It is a great deal better in any community when the great denominations oi Christians are about equal in power, march ing side by side for the world's conquest. Mere outside prosperity ,mere worldly power is no evidence that the church is acseptable to God. Bottera barn with Christ in the manger than a cathedral with magnificent harmonies rolling through the long drawn aisles and an angel from heaven in the pulpit if there is no Christ in the chancel and no Christ in the robetV Bigotry is ef ten the child tt ignorajace . ' r Ybd &eldoni find a man with iargS intellect Whd is q, bigdt. ; . It is the maris whb-hinks he knows a great deal but does not. That man is almost always a bigot. The whole tendency of education and civilization is to bring a man out of that kind of state of mind and heart. There was in the far east a great obe lisk, and one sido of the obelisk was white, another side of the obelisk was green, another aide of the obelisk was ,t-lue, and travelers went and looked at that ooelisk, but they did not walk around it One man looked at one side, another at another side, and they came home, each one looking at only one side. And they happened to meat, the story says, and they got into A rank quarrel about the Color of that obeliski . ,One m&n said ifc was White hnother map said it was green, another marl said it was blue, and when they were -in the very heat of the controversy a more intelli gent traveler came and said: "Gentlemen. I have seen that obelisk, and you are all right ami you are an wrong. Why didrrt walk all around the obelisk?" - you Look out for the man who se&3 only one side of a religicu3 truth. Look out for the man who never walks around about these great theories of God and eternity and the dead. He will be a bigot inevitably the man who only sees one side. There is no man more to be pitied than he who has in his head just one idea no more, no less. More light, less sectarianism. There is lioth ing that will, sd soon kill bigdtr as sunshine" ; God's sunshirid. .. -, .. t - II. So I have set before you what I con-, sider to be the causes of bigotry. ' fchave set before yon the origin of this great eviL What are some of the baleful effects? First of all it cripples investigation. You are wrong, and I am right, and that ends it. Ho tasta for exploration, no spirit of investiga tion. From the glorious realm of God's truth, over which an archangel might fly from eternity to eternity and not reach the limit, the man shuts himself out and dies, a blind mole under a corn shock. - It stops all investigation. While each denomination of Christians is to present all the truths of the Bible, it seems to me that God has given to each denomina- tion an a especial mission to give particular emphasis to some one doctrine; and so the Calvinistic churched must present the sOver eignty bf God, and the Arminiart churched must present man's free agency;, arid -the Episcopal churches must present the imports ance of order and solemn ceremony, and the Baptist churches must present the necessity of ordinances, and the Congregational church must present the responsibility of the indi vidual member, and the Methodist church must show what holy enthusiasm and hearty coDgregational singing can accomplish. While each denomination of Christians must set forth all the doctrines of the Bible. I feel it is especially incumbent upon each denomi nation to put particular emphasis upon some one doctrine. r , . Another great damage done by the secta rianism and bigotry of the church; i3 that it disgusts people with the Christian religion. Now, my friends, the Church of God was never intended for a war barrack. People are afraid of a riot. You go down the street and you see an excitement, and missiles fly ing through the air, and you hear the shock of firearms. Do you. the peaceful and in dustrious citizen, go through that street! "Oh, no!" you will say, 'III go around the block." Iow, men come and look upon this narrow path to heaven, and sometimes sea the ecclesiastical brickbats flying every whither, and they say: " Well, I guess Til take the broad road: If it is so rough, and there is st much sharp shooting on the narrow road, I guess I'll try the broad road." ? v . s Francis L so hated the Lutherans that he said if he thought there was . one drop of Lutheran blood in his veins he would punc- twre them and let that drop oujjnst as long a y XI P o V a ii strange church, minister against minister denomina tion against denomination, firing away into their own fort, or the fort which ought to be on the same side, instead of concentrat ing their energy and giving one mighty and everlasting volley against the navies of dark ness riding up through'the bay! I go out sometimes in the summer, and I find two beehives, and these two hives are in a quarrel. I .come near enough, not. to be stung, but I come just near enough to hear the controversy, and une beehive says : "That field of clover is the . sweetest," and an other behive says: "That field of clover is the sweetest." : I come in be tween them, and I say: "Stop this quarrel; if you like that field of clover best, go there; if you like that field of clover best, go there; but let mo tell you that that hive which gets the most honey is the best hive." : So I come out between the churches of the Lord Jesus Christ. - One denomination- of Christians says : "That field of Christian-doctrine -is best,t and another says This field of Chris tian doctrine is best." 'Well, I say i " Go where you get the most honey. " That is the best church which gets the most 'honey of Christian grace for the heart, and the most honey of Christian usefulness for the life. Besides that, if you want to build up any denomination, you wiil never build it' up by trying to pull some other down. Intolerance never put anything down. How much has intolerance' accomplished, for -instance, against the Methodist Church? For long years her ministry were forbidden the pul pits of Great Britain. Why was it that so many of them preached in the fields? 7 Sim ply i r because they - could not get .into the churches. And the name of the church was given in derision and as a sarcasm. The crlH ics of the church said: "They have no order, they have no method inj their worship;" and the critics, therefore, in irony called them "Methodists." . ; ; , s' I am told tbxitin Astor library.' iSovr York, kept as curiosities, there aro 707 booVs and pamphlets against Methodism. Did into'tsv ance stop that church? -No; it is either first or second amid the denominations of Chris tendom, her missionary stations in all parts of the world, her men not only important in religious trusts, but important : also : in secular, trusts. Church marching en, arid the more intolerance against it, the faster it marches. - - ' - ..- "" -. S- - - - v " What did intolerance accomplish against the Baptist Church? If laughing scorn ' and tirade could have destroyed the . churph it would not to-day have a disiiple lef t - . ,. 1 The Baptists were hurled out of Boston in the olden times. Those who sympathized with them were conflned,and when a petition was offered asking , leniency in their behalf all men who signed it were indicted. Has in tolerance stopped the Baptist Church? - The last statistics in regard -to it showed about 80,000 churches and about 2,500,000 communi cants. Intolerance never put down anything. In England a law was made against the Jew England thrust back" the Jew and thrust down the Jew, and declared that no Jew should hold an official position. - What came of it ? Were the Jews destroyed ? Was their religion overthrown ? No. Who be came prime minister of England years ago? Who was the next to the throne? Who was higher than the throne because he was counselor and adviser? ' The descendant or a Jew. What were we celebrating in all our churches as well as synagogues a few jears ago? The one nunareacn mrcaaay anniver- I sary of Montefiore, the great Jewish philan thropist. ; Intolerance never yet put down anything . .-. : - : . - HI. But now, my friends, having shown you the origin of bigotry or sectarianism, and having shown you the damage ft does, I want brief! V to show voil hrtW Wh &ra to war acrainst kthis. terrible 6vi!, and I think we ought to Degm, our war by realizing our weakness ana our. imperfections;; If wenfakefsc( many mistakes in the common affairs' of life, is it not possible that we may make mistakes ia regard to our religious affairs? - Shall we take a man by the throat, or by the collar, because ha cannot see religious truths just as -we do? In the light of eternity it will be found out, I , think, there -was something wrong in all our creeis, and something right in all our creeis. But since we may make mistakes in regard to things of the world, do not let us be egotistic, and so puffed up as to have an idea that we cannot make any mi take in regard to religious theories. -And then I think we will do a great deal to over throw the Sectarianism from our hearts, and she sectarianism from the Wortd4 by chieflv Enlarging jipoii those things iii whicu we agree rather than those ori which we differ: . Now, here is a great Gospel platform A man comes up on this side the platform and says: "I don't believe in baby sprinkling." Shall I shove him off? Here is a man comin up on this side tha platform, and he says: "I don't ' believe in the : persavorance of fio saints." Shall I shove him 'oif ? ; No. I will say; "Do you believe in the Lord Jsus as your Savior? Do you trust Him or time and for eternity?" He says: "Yes." "Do you take . Christ : for t'me and for-, eternity?" "Yes." I say: 4tC nne on, brothers; o.ie in time and one in eternity; brother now, brother forever." Blessed be God for a Gos pel platform s8 large .that all who receive Christ may stand on it! , . - : ..: I think we may overthrow tlri ssvere sm tarianism and bigotry in our -hearte. and ui the church alv, by realizing that all the de-' nominations of Christians have yie'd&inob.e' institutions and noble men. There is nothing -that, so stirs my soul as this thoughts Ono denomination yielded a Robert Hall and an Adoniram Judson; another yielded a Lati mer and a Melville; another yielded John Wesley and the blessed Snmmerfield, while our - own denomination yield xl Jonn Knox and the Alexanders men of whom the world was not worth v. Now, I say, if we are hon est and fair-minded men, when we come up in the presence of such churches and such de nominations, although they may bo different from our own. we ought to admire them and we ought to love and honor them. Churches which can produce such men, and such large hearted charity arid such magnificent mar tyrdom, ought to win our . affection at aiiy rate, our respect: . So coma on, ye 40d,00d Episcopalians in this country, and ye 803,000 Presbyterians, and ye 2,2";0,000 Baptists, and ye nearly 3,750,003 - Methodists some ori, shoulder to shoulder wewill march for the world's conquest; for all natrons are to be saved, and God demands that you and I help doit. Forward, the whole line. - Moreover, we may also overthrow the feel ing of severe sectarianism by joining other denominations in Christ'an work. I like when the springtime comes and the anniver sary occasions begin and all denominations come up on the same platform. That over throws sectarianism.- In the Young M.-c's Christian sssociation, in the Bible society, in the Tract society, in the Foreign Missionary society, shoulder to shoulder all denomina tions. . - Perhaps I might more forcibly illustrate this truth by calling your attention to an in cident which took place fourteen or fifteen years ago. One Monday morning at about 2 o'clock, while her 900 passengers were sound asleep in her berths dreaming of home, the steamer Atlantic crashed into Mars Head. Five hundred souls in ten minutes landed in eternity! Oh, what a scene! Agonized mon and women running up and down the gang ways and clutching for the rigging, and the j piunge oi rue noipies3 steamer, aua the clap ping oi tne nana-? oi tne mercues sea over -the-drowning and the dead, threw two conti nents into terror. BaS see this brave quar termaster trashing out with the life-Hue until e gets to tha rok; and see these fishermeit fathering , up the shipwrecked and tak jng them into the cabins .and wrapping hem in the flannels snug and warm;, and see hat minister of the Gospal with three other aen getting into a lifeboat and pushing out or the wreck, pulling away across the surf rnd pulling a way until they save one-more nan, and then getting back with him to the hore. Can those men ever forget that night? And can they ever forget their companion ship in peril, companionship in struggle, com banionshio in awful catastrophe and rescue? Never! Never j . In whatever part of the parth they meet they will be friends when they mention the story of that awful night Jwhen the Atlantic struck Mars Head, v Well, my friend. Our world has gone into a rworse shipwreck. Sin drove it on the rocks. The old ship has lurched and tossed m the Itempests of six thousand years. Out with the Ilife line! I do not care what denomination carries it. Out with the lifeboat! "I do not what denomination rows it. Side by side in the memory of common hardships,and common trials, ana common prayers, ana common tears, let us ba brothers forever. We mast be. We must be. One army of tho living God - 'J o whose command we bow : Tart of the host have cro sed the flood And part are croigin? now. And I expect to see the day when all de nominations of Christians shall join hands around the cross of Crrist and recite the creed: "I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth,, and ia Jesus Christ, and in the communion of s tints, and in the life everlasting." - May God i ispira us all with the largest hearted Christian charity THE WOMEN TAKE A HAND. Strikers in the Luzerne Coal Region Fatally Assail Non-Union Miners. - . A special from Wilkesbarre, Pa., says: The town of Alden, not far from Nanticoke, was the scene of a desperate riot, which will terminate in the death of two men. . ' The Alden coal company have a large col liery about a mile from the town and s me weeks ago the outside laborers, about thirty five in number, struck for an advance in wages. Their places wore promptly filled with polanders and Hungarians. This natu- rally aroused the most bi ter feelings among the strikers, ana every nignc tney gatnerea On the road 1 ading from the" colliery to the village and stoned and hooted the "black legs" as they came from their work. " S S One of the Polanders was struck by a large stone, and pulling out a pistol, he fired into the direction it came from. There was over a dozen of the "blacklegs" together and the instant the shot was fire i thy were assailed by at least double their number of strikers, ail carrying clubs and several armed with, revolvers. A desperate combat ensued, clubs and stones were used with terrible eff ect an I pistol s sols were freely exchanged. The "blacklegs" fought hard, but were-out-numbered, terribly beaten and finally fled to save their lives, leaving five or six of their number on the road, too badly injured to move. , ,- s' - Two of them are fatlly hurt. Michael Christ, in addition to beim; greatly battered about the ht a t and face has a bullet wound in the abdomen, and Jacob Horlow's skull was fractured by a blow .from a stone or. club; Several of the others are badly hurt,' but not so as to endanger life. Three of the assailants were arrested to-day and commit ted to Jail warrants are out for the arrest of others. - s . ' - A number of women, carrying a banner inscribed "Down with tho sc bs who took the bread out of our mouths," also participa ted in tbe fight,, and assaulted their husbands supplanters with fence rails and stones. The strife lasted over half an hour. n s - . ";';S c?" Jtji.ian' F. Mills of Saranac, Mich., was arrested and fined for drunkenness, and his sweetheart broke off her engagement with himi He claims that the arrest was unjust, and has brought suit against the town for $20,000 damages for the alienation of ; the girl's affections. - , .-.- AN APPALLING 0ALALHTT A CROWDED EXCURSION TRAIN . WRECKED IN ILLINOIS. foreral Hundred People Killed or Badly Injured A Niagara Falls excursion train on the T ledo, Peoria and Warsaw railway, -consisting of seventeen coaches - and sleepers, crowded with passengers from Peoria, UL, and points ajong the .line, was" wrecked at 1a. m., Thursday, two and one-half miles' east - of Chatsworth, by . running' into a ditch, ' the culvert over which had bean burned by a prairie fire. ' The train Was drawn by two engines, one of, which was wrecked with ten coaches and two baggage cars." As the tfalii heared Piper City; a small iowti iri Ford C&,- the bfidgS mentioned gave wa plungm'g the engine and several carf dewn a steep embankment into a dry gully.- Tho' cars caught fire from the -lamps and a fearful panic ensued. The cars were piled upon1 each other --at the foot of the steep" embankment. . They lay in a heap upon the engines, crushed together in a space of less than two car lengths. In one coach not a person escaped. In another only one person, a woman, was saved. The fire in the cars was put out by trainmen and pas sengers, who, having no water, piled earth on tha flameSi A relief train was sent at once to the place arid then it was found that ten eoacnes r had either gone through the bridge or were pi!od iri a promiscuous heap crosswise . and lenghwise - on thd track. One hundred and eighteen1 bodies were recovered from the wreck, while those more or less injured -numbered many more. Details of the frightful disaster are as follows: In the doomed train were seventeen cars, all but one containing passengers, arid the whole drawn by two engines. - The train had left Peoria about - five o'clock, carrying . 960 excursionists bound for Niagara Falls. Two miles east of Forest was a little trestle on fire, caught from the burning prairie.': The trestle was not longer than fifteen - feet, and r was not more than six feet above the ditch. This little culvert's . destruction well-nigh caused, tha destruction of the entire train. The cul vert safely bore the first engine, but the -wheels of its tender were caught in the sink ing rails and a frightful wreck enssed Car after car leaped the narrow chasm arkl telescoped the coaches preceding. The great weight and impetus of the half dozen Pullman sleepers drove their huge frames with terrible force against the' chair cars . and - day . coaches . ahead. f them. : Three cars were so telescoped to gether that it was . almost impossible td tell the ruins of one from those of another. One coach entered another, splitting it and shov ing all the seats and passengers into a mass" in the far end, leaving the floor as clean as if swept by a knife. l he disaster came absolutely without warn ing. Lven the engineer of the first locomo tive, Dave Sutherland, had no opportunity, to - apply the : brake before reaching the culvert . under which N: the . flames haa crept almost unobserved. The engineer of the feconi locomotive, Ed McClintock, was killed with his hand on the - throttle. His body was crushed and his head cut from Ins : body. Abner Applegreen, his fireman, says no fire . was seen . in the culvert. The first he knew of the disaster there was a sort of shock and roar which be could not understand, and he sud-" deuly found himself waist deep in the debris, his engineer lying headless by his side. Instantly the air was filled, with the cries of the wounded and the shrieks of the dying." The groans of men and the screams of women united to make an appaliing sound.and above all could be heard the agonizing cries of little children who lay pinned alongside their dead parents. . - - - . - - - . And there was another terrible danger yet to be met. : The" bridge was still on fire and the wrecked cars were - lying - on - and around . the fiercely - burning embers. Everywhere in the wreck were wounded and Unhurt men,. women and children, whose lives could be saved if they could begotten out, but whose death and death in a most hor-; rible form was certain if the twisted wood of the broken cars caught fire. To fight the fire there was not a drop of waterand only some fifty able-bodied men who still had presence of mind and nerve enough to do their duty. The only light was the S light of the burning bridge. And with so much of its aid the fifty men went to work the fight the flames, r. For four hours they fought desperately, and for four hours the victory hung in the balance. Earth"' was the only weapon with which tbe foe could be fought, and so the attempt was made to . smother it out. There was no pick or shovel to dig it up, no baskets or barrows to " carry it, and so desperate were they that they dug their fingers down into the earth, which a long drought h .d baked almost as hard as stone, and heaped the precious handfuls thus hardly won upon the encroaching flames, and with this earth-', work, built handful by handful, kept back the foe. While this was going on other brave men crept underneath the wrecked cars,- beneath the fire and the wooden bar which held as pris oners so many precious lives, and with pieces of board and sometimes their hands beat back the flames when they flashed up alongside some unfortunate wretcri who, pinned down by a heavy beam, looked oa helplessly -while it seemed as if his death by -fire was certain. While the fight against the creeping- flames was going on the-ears of the workers were filled with the groans of dying men, the an guished entreaties : of those whose death seemed certain, unless tbe terrible blaze could bo extinguished -and the cries of those too badly hurt to care in what manner the end were brought about, if only it would be qUICk. - r' .- - Finally the victory was won. The fire was put out after four hours of endeavor, and as its last sparks died away the light came up in the east and dawn came upon a scene of. horror. , - - . -'. --- ,.; .. , " - - :- -vDuring all the excitement of the terrible scene a band of miscreants went about rob bing the dead and dying. . When the dead iDOdies were laid out" in the corn fields these hyenas turned them over in their search for valuables; ana tnac tne plundering was aone by an organize! gang was proven "by the fact that out in the corn field sixteen purses, all empty, were found in one heap. - ' There was one incident of tae accident which stood out more horrible than all of those horrible scenes. In -the second coach was a - man, his - wife and " little child. His name ' could not be learned to-day. but it is said he cot on at Peoria. - When the accident occurred the entire family of Lthree was caught and held down by broken wood wort. .Finally, when relief came, the man turned to the friendly workers and feebly said: "Take out my wife first. I'm afraid the child is dead." So they carried out frlA wis4-Tia aw1 ao a hivlrari caaf vac falran S"flP VUD U11C1. OUU iH Of l'l A.CU Wvu-w VV 10 Vll. her crushed breast the blood which welled from her hps told how badly she was hurt. They carried the child, a fair-haired, blue-eyed girl of three, and laid her in the corn field, dead. bv the side of her dying: mother. Then they went back for the father and brought him out- Both his lees ywere broxen, but ne crawled through the corn , to the side of his wife, and feeling her loved features in the darkness, pressed some brandy to her lips and asked &er now sne ieic a. ieeoie groan was the only answer and the next instand she died. The man felt fche forms of his dead wife and child and cried out: "My God! there - is , nothing more . for me to live fpr," and taking a pistol out of his , pocket, pulled the trigger. The -bullet went surely through his brain, and the three dead bodies of that little family are now lying sido by, side in Chatsworth, waiting to be identified. . When the news of the disaster was first flashed over the wires prompt aid was at once sent. Ur. Steele, cniet Peoria and Western road train, and with him were two other surgeons and their assistants. From Peoria a: so came j Drs. Martin, Baker, Fluegler and Johnson, ana tueir BssiHtaaiB. - rruiu ruui ia tt:su uamo and from every city whence- the unfortunate excursionists had come their physi cians and friends hurried on t5 help them. From Peoria had also come del egations rof the Bed Men and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, numbers of both societies being on the ill-fated train, and so after eight o'clock in the morning there were plenty of people to do tho work that needed such prompt attention. : ., . J. O. Baker, Pres dent of the Illinois So" ciety of Engineers, and professor of civil engineering in the University of Illinois, returned Saturday night from a careful per sonal examination of the engineering prob lems of the Chatsworth disaster, and an examination of tbe other bridges and cul verts, and the protection from fire given; thr.se culverts by road officials and .track hands. He favored a cori espondent with the following: "The incendiary theory ha no foundation whatever. I am unable per sonally to find any citizens of Chatswortbi who have seen suspicious characters loitering; about, as required by that theory. Then, the ilam3S of the burning culvert were plain ly seen from Chatsworth, at intervals, for several hours before the accident. From the lay of the laud, they must have risen fiver or six feet above th i track to have been seen so far. It is plain that an attempt bad been made to protect the bridges of the road from fire, but a personal inspection of other eui- . verts in that vicin ty shows that it was not do .e sd as to afford complete protection. A personal inspection along the line of the ro d for several nrilessbo.vs that grass and weeds vfereuot burned off, but many patches were lef t-uuburnedr and in .the immediate vicinity it was more carelessly done than elsewhere. The culvert itself was of the u. u il built, and had abucdant strength to carry the train but for the fire that destroy ed the lower portion. - "' v- 'K ' tie added ne taougat ic prooaDie. tnat tn e left by the section men late in the af ter . j ... ... ........ noon who, by tneir own testimony, aamittea that there was burning grass only forty-rods away, was driven down in tne cuivers wueu they letc oy a sngnt cnange oi wino. Otherwise it is possible that sparks from the special train of tbe superintendent of bridges, the last train Deiore toe ratea excursion. kindle i iu the air near the culvert and burned slowly for a long time, and finally fired the culvert- GREAT FIRE IN PITTSBURG Some of the Costliest Buildings in tha City on Fire Saturday Morningv The most disastrous fire known for many" years occurred in the heart of Pittsburg, and the damage will certainly reach up in the millions. Shortly before 10 o'clock Friday night smoke was seen issuing from jthe rear of , Masonic Hall, on Fifth avenue. Th fir sppmed to be m tbe second story.. which was occupied by Campbell fc.Dick as a carpet wareroom. An alarm was quickly sounded and the fire department responded promptly, but before they arrived the rear portion of the building was burning. in a snort tune tne names spreau w uoiu ikon's magnificent nine story building, ad joining, and by II o'ciock toe names xuui reached such proportions that the entire fire department of the city was called out. - v 1 1 A ,t O ..1., 1 A- Jh- 17m1.vVi Vii t i 1H inn- nn other fine structure nine stories high, caught fir i from the intense heat, and in ten minutes more the Dispatch building,- adjoining, was in flames. ' . . The block on the' north side of larta. avenue, between Smithfieldand Wood streets is doomed. This property is among the most valuable in the c.ty. , Sparks flew in every direction. Ilesidonts and owners of prop erty for a half mile around were on the roofs extinguishing the sparks with buckets of water. .- "- " ' ' ' ' ' On Virgin alley, m the rear of the Mason ic Hall, a number or tne tenement-nouses have been destroyed and twelve f amlies ren dered homeless. - So far no casualties have been reported. - The streets for squares were black with men, women and children. The crowd was so great the firemen was unabled to do effective .work. 1 A rumor is afloat that the nre was tne work of incendiaries, and that it was started for the purpose of robbery. . The flames started in the rear of the Ma? sonic building, presu i ably in the basement of Campbell and jjick s carpet srore. ja three sides were solid brick buildings form ins a quadrangle, encompassing a quarter of an acre of their boxes. . ' ''' Alarm af ier alarm followed each otner, and within forty-five minutes five districts were on the grouac. .- uut ncse ana engines and trucks and axes were powerless to deal with the b;azing furnace that glowered in defiance of two score nozzles in tne nanas oi a hundred firemen. : - ' -- ' ' On the other side was the loftiest building in the citv the Hamilton which towered nine stories above flhe flames that licked its mass. - . The mnemen could not get witnm a iuu feet of the crater though at work at some elevation from the hottest of the fire. . There was not much wind, ana the spartcs and burning fire-brantis shot out from the pit of "flame and sored lazily over tne roois of the business blocks on both sides of fifth avenue. ' '. " On every roof of the two squares were men with buckets and extinguishers putting out the sparks and brands that dropped in a heavy shower over buildings for a solid square. " " ' '"' ' ' - CHEATING THE GALLOWS. A. Murdered Commits Suicid "When all Hope Was Gone. , , . Frederick Girard . Pagels, confined in jail at St. Louis ,has cheated the gallows." He was under sentence of death and would havo undoubtedly been i hanged on Friday, as all resources to save him had been . exhausted. He-was found deaid in his cell, having severed the arteries in his left arm with a pocket knife. t. - -s..'-S ' .- - ... - After cutting his arm he wrapped a towel around , it, allowing one endto rest in a buck et in his sell, that the dr ppinof th blood mightrnot attract attention. When- his cell was visited at five o'clock this morning he was dead. - ' " - Jerry Pagels killed Samuel Kohn Novem ber 10, 1885, because the latter who was a salesman for a rival tannery, secured some-, of Pagels' trade. The case, after passing through all the State courts, was appealed to Justice Harlan and again to Justice Miller for a writ of Error. 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