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r THOUSAND PEOPLE FALL WITH BRIDGE Bad Accident Result of a Fire in Chicago. AMOUR PACKING PLANT BURNS Oreat Crowd Were ou Viaduct Waching Flames When Collapse Occurcd. DEED OE CRAZY FIEND. DR CHAPMAN’S SERMON Love-Mad Brute Slays Whole . Family Bt cause. He Could Not Wed a Mere Child. Six living corpses, scarcely yet cold, and but one living witness', >a helpless Infant, to the awful tragedy, is what met the horrified eyes of Mr. A SUNDAY DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED PASTOR.cVANGEUSr. I Subject! TIio Bow In the eland—A Oospol Itennsa Filled With Swretneie mid noli>—In Title World nt Uo.t We Oct Only the Half of Tiling*. [The Rev. .T. Wilbur Chapman, D. D, i* now the most distinguished and bcit John Kellar, as he stepped Into tuo known evangelist in the country. He was house of Wllilam Wilkinson Monday During the progress of a fire Friday night which destroyed the lard refinery of Armour & Co., in the union stock yards, at Chicago, twenty-nine people were injured, five of them In a man ner which will probably cause death In a short time. The loss of the com pany is estimated by its officers at be tween 9750,000 and 1900.000,' with all chances In favor of the latter. There were a number of accidents, but by far the larger number of those who were hurt received their Injuries by the falling of a hog runway, or viaduct, upon which they were stand ing to obtain a better view of the fire. The lard refinery had Just been com pleted and was considered by its own ers the most complete establishment of its kind In the United States. It was five stories high and 250 by 300 feet It was filled with new and costly machinery, and during the day 2,000 people worked within Its walls. The night shift numbered 700 and all of them were in the building when the fire broke out. It Is thought that all escaped In safety. The fire originated with an explosion of three lard tanks on the fifth floor of the building. The cause of the explo sion is unknown, but the three tanks, which were filled with boiling lard, went up with a roar almost iu .the same second. There were a score .‘of workmen in the immediate vicinity of the tanks, and a number of them were burned by the scalding lard. It was not a minute after the explosion until the entire fifth floor was a mass of flames. Within an hour the building was totally destroyed. The fire was one of the most spectac ular that hag been seen la Chicago In recent-years and the display attracted an enormous crowd of people, who swarmed by thousands ppon the via ducts which pass through the yards at a height of twenty feet from the ground. Suddenly about 200 feet of a hog runway extending from the via duct north to the plant of Armour & Co. gave way, precipitating fully 1,000 persona to the ground. The firemen Instantly ceased their work on the building and devoted their energies to saving the people. All were taken from the wreckage within a few minutes and placed in an Improvised hospital. Michael Maloy, oriver of engine company No. 49, sustained injuries which will cause death while carrying his engine to the fire. The horses plunged toward the crowd of people on the Bide of the street.- Maloy, seeing that somebody would be badly Injured unless his team was checked, sprang from his seat to the back of one of the horses and grasping the team by the bits, turned them against a brick build ing. The horses struck the wall with terrific force and Maloy was caaght be tween the wall and one of the horses. He was fearfully crashed. morning near Hastings, Fla., a thriv ing settlement IS miles from St. Au gustine. The dead are William Wilkinson, aged'52; Mrs. Wilkinson, his wife; Miss Abltha McCullough, aged 13; Miss Wilkinson, a sister of William Wilkinson, one child and WUllam Aus tin, murderer and suicide, aged 25. Crazed by this Infatuation for little 1 Abltha McCullough, a lovely girl of a trifle over 13, but well developed for her age, Austin killed the entire fam ily because his advances were refused and hts desire to wed the girl was op posed. The tragedy occurred at a lonely farmhouse at 3 o'clock Monday morn ing. Austin went to the house on Friday night and proposed marriage. He was rejected and vowing he would yet marry her, hurried to St. Augustine and procured on Saturday a marriage license. He went to church on Sunday night and told every one he met that he was to be married that night About 3 o’clock in the morning sev eral pistol shots were heard, but no one went to Investigate until next morning, when Wilkinson failed to second only "to Dr. Tabu age, but since the of that famous preacher Dr. Chap man has the undisputed possession of the Pulpit as the preacher to influence the pi&ra people. His services as an evangel ist are in constant demand. His sermons have'stirred the hearts of men and women to a degree uuapproached by any latter- day divine. J. Wilbur Chapman was borft in Richmond, Ind., June 17, 1859. He was educated at Oberlin College and Lake For est University, and graduated for the min istry from the Dane Theological Semin ary, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1882. His ser mons are simple and direct, so that their influence is not so much due to exciting the emotions as to winning the hearts and convincing the minds of those who hear him. Dr. Chapman is now in charge of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, New York City.] New Your City.—The following sermon is ene prepared for publication by tho Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman, America’s best- known evangelist, who is now preaching to overflowing congregations in this city. It is entitled "The Bow in the Cloud,” and is founded on the text, Genesis 9; 13. “I do set My bow in the cloud, and it shaii be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.” It may seem at first thought as if this were a queer text to choose from which to give a gospel message, and yet all the works'of God are so wonderful that one has but to get the key to unlock the door leading into them to find them filled with sweetness and with help. The rainbow is no exception to this rule. It is hardly possible for one to look upon the bow that spans the clouds after a stonn without an 1 exclamation of delight. One would think that it would grow mo notonous, for we have seen it so many times, but quite the opposite is true. Sun sets differ; they are os unlike as two things with the cloud of ain across a man’s mind ho can have no real conception of the Bible; ho must certainly be prejudiced | against the church. Scatter the darkness that hpvera over your mind, and the Bible will become to you the very thought of God, while the church will compel your ad miration. II.—ACROSS THE CLOUD GOD CAST HIS BOW. To see a bow three things are necessary. First, there mutt be a cloud; we certainly have that in the world’s sin. Second, the sun must be shining; we have this condi tion met in the fact that God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. Third, the rain must be falling. We have this in Isaiah 53: 10,11—"For as the rain comcth down, and the enow from heaven, and re- turneth not thither, but waieretn the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud. that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater; ao shall My Word be that goeth forth out of My mouth; it shall not return unto Me void, hut it shall ac complish that which I please, and it shall prospeT in the thing whereto I sent it.” Or, we might put it—first, in order that we may bo saved, we must acknowledge ourselves to be sinners. This is the cloud. Second, we must have some conception of God’ii hatred of sin. This is the light. SOUTHERN & FLORIDA RAILWAY. 1JOWM JW Sciieuujtf in Effect May 4, 190— SOUTHBOUND. IQutckl Dixie] ShoolValdo I Step! Flyer] Fly|Exps. Jasper White Bpr... Lake City ... Lake Butler Snmp. City . Hampton ... Flora home . Ar. Palatka .... Station?. turn up at a neighbor’s house, where ; cou i d p0 ss’ibly be. Indeed, it must he true V. _ .4 I_ L. -.Lt . . ...... • iU.l ... ..... U»t he was engaged in harvesting a crop of potatoes. Mr. Ketlar, a farm hand, was sent to Wilkinson’s house and he found the whole family murdered and Austin with a bullet hole In his breast and a revolver clutched In his hand. that one is never like the other. But rain bows are always the same. And yet in spite of this we are charmed as we look, and inspired as we study. The first mention of a bow is in the text. It is not said that this is tho first time the raliibow has appeared, for from the very nature of the case it has always been in existence since the worlds began to be, hut thie is said to bo the first use Word of the tragedy was transmit- j % £ °Th e list menSon of a rainbow is ted to St. Augustine on the morning Revelation 4: 3: .“And He that oat woe to train and Sheriff Perry and the coro* j look upon like a jasper and a sardine atone; Lv. Me con . Kathleen Qrovanta , Unadllla Vienna . Cordete Arabl . Askburn Ar. Tlfton Lv. Tilton Sparks Adel . ... Third, we must be. persuaded ' that ‘He I Ar Valdosta loved us and gave Himself for us. This is | Lv. Valdosta the rain. With these conditions met. the how of promise spans the cloud of a sinful life. III.—THE SEVEN COLORS If I should hold a prism in my hand and the light of day should touch it, there would be refracted nt once seven colors, ns follows: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Thero never has been a rainbow in this world but these hare been seen in more or less prominence. In my message now, the prism is tho cross, and the light is God’s truth. As it strikes this long prism it breaks up into seven colors. The seven together give us the I rainbow. First, forgiveness. Psalm 32: 1.—“Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.” Tho word forgiven means taken off. What a wonderful thought it is! Oh, what a load of ain we had to carry! How it did weigh ub down! How day and night we went crying aloud, saying, "Oh, wretched man that I am, who ahall deliver me?" Resolution never lifted it a particle. Reformation only seemed to make it heav ier. Then He came, and stooped down, or whispered to us just one sweet word, "Forgiven!" and when we realised it the I burden was taken off. To receive all of this we have but to yield to God. Trying to make ourselves better only adds to tbe | cloud and deepens our despair. The second color is cleansing. Psalm 51: , -"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall he whiter than | snow.” The little hunch of hyssop carries us I hack to the Passover night, when the lamb was slain and its blood collected. It Was not said that one should take a brush, AM 11 25 12 19 12 38 12 55 1 19 1 65 2 13 238 3 20 3 25 1 02 407 4 13 455 500 6 25 5 39 6 01 6 32 655 7 35 800 3 26 4 00 .4 00 4 33 4 38 4 44 5 25 5 So 5 59 6 13 635 7 06 7 30 8 20 8 46 9 01 9 45 10 25 PM 4 20 6 31 6 67 620 6 61 715 738 811 900 9 05 9 49 '966 10 03 1100 PM PM 845 9 41 10 02 10 20 10 43 1103 1125 11 48 1186 18 80 106 110 1 16 2 00 PM NORTHBOUND. IQutckl DtxlelShoo IValila I Step! Flyer! Fly|Exps. and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." You notice that the expression used is "round about the throne, and here for the first time we find a rainbow in a complete circle. We have only seen the half of it here, which is surely an illustration of the fact that in this world at best we only get the half of things. Wo only get the half of t truth. Take the great doctrine of the Atonement; who is able to understand it? Qaynor and Greene Go as Result, But it i» very helpful to know that we are not obliged to understand it, but only to ner hastened to the scene of the trag edy. A wailing infant, who had been un harmed, was found In. bed beside Its dead mother. A M PM G 23 Flnrahome . . 6 57 6 43 Hampton . .. 7 46 7 25 Samp. City .. 7 a 7 40 9 CG 8 55 Whito spr. ... 9 28 9 21 Jasper 10 00 956 10 22 10 18 Ar. Valdosta .... 11 60 1100 AM P M Lv. Valdosta .... 11 05 11 15 4 45 1 45 Heartplne . . 11 45 11 56 5 37 2 31 Adel 11 51 12 02 643 2 37 Sparks 11 57 12 08 5 49 2 43 Ar. Tlfton 12 30 12 45 0 35 3 25 Lv. Tlfton 12 30 12 45 6 40 3 26 Aakburn . ... 1 OS 1 22 7 27 4 07 Arabl 1 29 7 53 4 31 Cordele 2 08 1 58 8 20 4 63 Vienna 223 2 13 8 41 6 13 Unadllla . ... 2 48 2 35 9 12 6 37 Grcvnnla . ... 3 61 9 36 6 57 Kathleen . ... 3 21 10 00 6 16 Ar. Macon ../... 4 ID 365 11 06 7 15 PM AM AM PM BACK TO QUEBEC Dixie Flyer” has through coach and Pullman sleeper between Macon and Jacksonville via Valdosta, and through coach and local sleeper between Macon and Palatka. Local sleeper open In Ma- brt n bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the I con Union Depot 9:00 p. in., and remains blood and sprinkle the posts of the door. Union Depot on return until 7:36 a. The commonest thing that grew in. the hit-sinMn. East wu hyssop.■ represents faith. One CO n Q and piutka. ' b had but to Step to the door of the cottage vVM. CHECKLEY SHAW. Vice-President, C. B. RHODES. General Passenger Agt., Macon. Ga. DAVE O. HALL. T. P. A, Room HI Equitable Bldg., Atlanta. Ga. HARRY BURNS. F. P. A.. an W. Bay St. L of Hearing In Habeas Corpus | Proceedings. A special from Montreal, Quebec, says: Colonel Gaynor and Captain Greene have won the first skirmish In receive it. God is’ satisfied with it, and He fully comprehends it, and when we ■tend with Him in glory we ehall ace the other half of the bow, qnd our hearts shall rejoice. We only see the half of life here. At its best it is a mystery. Over and over again, when we wanted to go to the right we were compelled to turn to the left, and tho fight against extradition to the » thousand times because, of our perplexi- . .. . ties nnd trials we have cried aloud: United States, and the two men are “How can these things be?" NEW LISE FOR SEABOARD. Fast and West Railroad of Alabama Fnrohaaed From Kelly Patate. A Baltimore dispatch says: A era dicate, of which Ladcnburg, Thalman & Co., of New York, are the managers, has bought the East and West Rail road of Alabama from the Kelly estate of New York. The purchase Is in the Interest of the Seaboard Air Line, to take that aystem to Birmingham, Ala. The terminals at Birmingham are to be secured by purchase of tbe Bir mingham Belt railroad. Short connecting lines are to be built to unite the Seaboard with tbe East and West railroad, which,'with the reconstruction of the latter, will bring the total cost up to $4,000,000. now In the old city of Quebec, where they believe proceedings to force them to return to the United States to an* swer the charge of defrauding the United States government can be suc cessfully fought. At 10 o’clock Monday a special train on the Canadian Pacific arrived from Quebec with High Constable Gale and assistants on board, armed with a writ of habeas corpus. They got Into a cab and drove to the Montreal jail, to THIRTY-StYEX TEARS ENOUGH. Kx-Dois of Tammany Does Pome Talk* lag In London- Richard Croker begafi an Interview at London Friday concerning the af faire of Tammany society with an em phatic declaration that he had ceased to meddle In New York politics. “Thlr. ty-seven yean of political fighting la enough for one life,” he said, “and I am done with It, I tell yon once and for all.” He expressed regret that thero shoald be trouble In Tammany and ex pressed the hope that Mr. Nixon would return to office. But wc must learn the lesson that we mutt trust Him where we cannot under* stand Him. The day ayill come, when seated at His feet we shall aee the other half of the bow of our life, and wo ahall know indeed that all things havo worked together for good. The last mention of the how in Revels* tlon tells us that it is to ba like an emer ald. This is certainly very strange, for one has never beheld a green rainbow here. Six other colon must oe added to it to make it complete. The cotor, however, i* not without its suggestiveness. Green is the color that always rests the eye. It is for thie reason that the hillsides, the waving branches of the tree, and the gross _ beneath our feet, ere so restful on a sum- which Institution Gaynor and Greene mer day. Ia not this a hint that heaven had been committed by Judge La Fon- is a place of rest as well as beauty? ialne during the afternoon. The stay JJSJ, ‘nd. yXvTnd b?l°e" If you of tho high constable was of very drop the red and put the yellow and blue short duration. Evidently Governor together you have green os a result. Red Vallee and his guests awaited their fc n \ h VTto ths‘thoudhl tha'Twhen one coming, for In a short time Gale ap- passes through tbe gates of pearl he leaves peared, accompanied by Governor suffering behind him. There is to be no v„n„„ a red mark in heaven. Christ finished His Vallee and Gaynor and Greene. A m(tarings u P on Calvary, and never a pang quick drive was made ' to the Place shall meet Him again. We finish our suf- Vlger station and an hour after the ar- feringt, too, when wc say good-bye to this i, weary road we have traveled, and the gate rival of the special train It departed heaven that shuts us in shuts suffering with the much sought fugitives from out. tho American courts on board. j I.—THE CLOUD. Half an hour later tho rezulnr train 1 Wo know what the cloud was for Nnaa Hair an nour later the regular tram , {or thu ttxt whlcll j have quoted lla , t „ for Quebec departed, having on board J® with him), and a cloud in Noah’a day Donald MacMaster and Chief Carpen- was not unlike the cloud of yesterday; ter. They went to answer the writ of but in the thought of the sermon tin-, cloud habeas corpus served on Carpenter. t *f? n ^ ou , d rattke one heartsick to read the Incidentally Mr. MacMaster will use history of sin. First, in the world, begin- nil his efforts to see that Governor nlng with Adam, going to Noah, reaching v.iia- mihim, i.i. „ the howling mob about the cross ou Ca.- Vallee returns his prisoners to the vary, coming down to the present flay,. Montreal jail. Tbe question as to when the whole world seems to be touched whether he shall do so or not depends TT ith its.power, the most terrible thing iu entirely upon the legality of the ar rest. The case will be heard In Que bec. STEEL TRUST DOOMING. Gigantic Combine Retires Preferred Stock and Ilsurs More Bonds. A special meeting of the stockhold ers of tbe United States Steel Corpora tion was held Monday at the New Jer sey office of the corporation, in Ho boken, to consider resolntions adopted by the directors, providing for the re tirement of $200,000,000 of preferred stock and the Issuing of $250,000,000 of new bonds. Resolntions antborlxlng the chsnges proposed by the directors were adopted. the world ,ia ain. Second, in the home, blighting and blasting that which is a tyje of ueaven, anil wrecking that whwn God meant to be a safe vessel to carrv in through the turmoils and strife ever round about us. Third, in our own hesrt, giving us wrong conceptions of God, and drag* (ring us toward nell, even against our wifi. The blackest thing m all the world is sin. The cloud does two things: (1) It ob- •cum the.sun. The cloud of sin does the same thing.. No one ever yet has had a true vision of Jesus Christ with the leest particle of ain iu hi* heart or life. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." A poor fellow converted in one of the mlaaions in Chicago, who was thought be fore his conversion to be hardly worth the saving, was so wonderfully transformed that a committee waited noon him to find the secret of bis changed life. He answered their question in just one sentence: “I have aetn Jesus.” This vision ever changes tbe lift and transforms character. (2) The cloud compels us to see things in a falsa light. Goa mad* the works of Hit hand* to be teen in the sunlight. W- mutt not judge them un Ur the cloud. And 201 W. Bay St., Jackieqville, Fla. and stoop down to pluck, a hunch of hyt-1 sop. The commonest thing in all this world Is faith, 'We have faith in each | other, whether we express It in this word or not; and the faith that one hat in his mother, in his father, in wife or husband, f turned toward Jesus Christ would save lit soul. It is one thing to be forgiven, hut the color deepens, and the truth sweetens when we know that because of the shed offences, and was raised again for our jus-. & S2^«rsf’®£S i, ’SaB fiKTVlJi S i w! SHnr’VISSta,.ST cleansing. buMhere is the memory of tho -Wherefore, unto tin children of old life of faihira which Is ever to him 1 ke I(|rM , j tho and j wj „ brin _ yoll a .hackle when he would run to God. Jus- rut from tmd , r the burden , oi the Egypt- tificntion it sweeter by far than anything j j Bn4 ond j w ju P | d you ou t „f their bond- we have, yet learned. When Christ rose Bge ’ and j w , u redcera ym) witb a stretched for our justification He stood before God 0 5,.’ BnJ)> and ^jth greit judgments; ond I «s a kind of receipt (at John Robertson wl „ uke you to Me fnr „ pe0D> and i wfil has said), and when God looks upon that ba to yo ,/ a God . and ve shall know that I receipt He knows the hill is paid. am tb ' e Jj0rd y J, ur , vb i e n brlngcth "Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe. | v 0 u out from under the burdens of the Sin had left a bitter stain, Ho washed it Egyptians. And I will bring you in unto white as snow.” J the lnnd, concerning the which I did ewear But justification ia oven better to mo I to give it to Abraham, to Isaac and to than this, for when one is justified before Jacob; and I will give you it lor on herit- God he actually standi at if he never had oge: I am the Lord. .... tinned. I He ever waits to fill the covenant which The fourth color is—sins covered by .the Ho has made with Christ concerning us.’ ia. Micah 7: 19—"Ho will turn again, He If we would have tho joy of salvation, wo will have compassion upon "us; Ho will sub* I need hilt two things; first, wo must be- due our iniquities; and Thou wilt cast all Have God; whatever our feelings may be, their alna Into the depths of the sea.". wo must believe: second, believing God, It is very comforting to know that there I wo must act. sa if we beitcvcd Him. The are some depths in the ocean so deep that one gives us life. Tho other gives us joy in they can pever be sounded. Our sins must life’s possession. have gone at deep. ... 1 There is alto another thought of com-1 gome men ore barn to command, and fort; if a body ia cast into the ocean where 0 i btrg get married, the waters are not very deep, when the storms come and the ocean is in a fury, the storm, as if with giant hands, takes tho dead body and casts it upon tbe shore. But there are depths in the sea so great WILL OF HAMPMOX FILED. that no storm that hasever yet swept across Property of Road Admiral Goes lo the face of the deep his stirred the waters. “ Thank* be unto God, our sins may be sunk so deep in the sea that they will never he east up against us again. The color deep ens and the truth grows sweater still. The fifth color is—sins removed. Psalm 103: 12—“As far as tbe east it from ths west, so far hath He removed our trans gressions from us.” It has been proved that the distance from east to west could never be meat Widow With Exception of $4,(100. The will of the late Admiral William T. Sampson was filed at Washington Saturday. It leaves everything to the widow, save $4,000 life lnsuranco, which Is left equally among the four daughters. In tbe petition asking for admission of the will to probate, Mrs. ured. This is certainly inspiring. But I Sampson, who Is named as sole exe- there is something better for me than this c „tor, says the admiral died possessed ■n the filth color, for when I am told that [ „, ho . my sins are as far from me as the put :s from the west I know that the east and the west can never be brought together; nor can the saved sinner and his pardoned tins ever meet again. The sixth-color U Isaiah 44: 22—“I have blotted out, ai a thick cloud, thy transgres sions, and, as a cloud, thy sins; return un to Me, for I have redeemed thee." A man cannot blot out his own tins. Rome have tried it with their tears, and have lost their reason. Rome have at tempted it by worfca of mercy, ond have R iven up in despair. But God can easily o it. For sins to be blotted out may of stocks and other securities valued at $8,500 and a tract cf land at Man chester, N. Y„ known as the Marmon Hill farm, veined at $10,000. Tho will Is dated Key West, Fla.. April-16,1S93. BIGGEST BANC SOUTH. Several Large Institutions In Now Or leans *r« Consolidated. The newly organised Southern Trust mean the same as for man’a account to be I and Banking Company, with a capita! Wetted out. I may have n bill charged lt f2,000,000, organised only a few against me on the books, but if on the op- M v . . . posite -tide is credited a sufficient sum of months ago In New York, has ab- money to meet the indebtedness, it it | sorbed the Union National bank of biottedout. But the expression must mean New Orleans and has perfected a r- more than this. It means that when one a I - , . ... . . . tint are blotted out by God they are as il rangements for consolidation with the they never bad been. „ I Hibernia National bank. The new The »*»«'th co’or «eipt thc clitnas of concern will be known as the Hibernia S-ha^iSiMm^tird^ Ustlonal Bank and Trust Company, to him; he hath done that which is lawful I and will star), but with $2,500,000 of Z' r lh£,h on- sin. “4 $10,000,000 Of deposits, have Wn targiren indVe miy'havc'been making It the largest bank ing concern justified, when the mat day of judgment I ia the southern states, comes wc tzxy he oj^g:a to meet them ah 1