The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-10-18

A Flying Trains Jump-Bost0n's Pride
AGAIN Out of Money-The Government
Will Build Its Own Warships-News of
Other Sorts from O~therwheres.
Talmage's Mceting-Housc Burned.
The famous Brooklyn tabernacle, of
which Rev. 4. Dewitt, Ialmage, D. D., is
now pastor, has been for the second time
in its history totally destroyed by fire. At
2.l5 o'clock in the morning a policeman
discovered flames issuing from the small
windows over the main entrance and sent
in III alarm. Soon after the fremen ar
rived it became evident that the edifce
was doomed. 1t burned like a finder box;
and the fremen, despairing of saving it,
directed their efforts to the adjoining
property. Many of tie occupants of
n%eighboring dwellings were already awake,
and the police proceeded to arouse those
who were sleeping. In about an hour the
tabernacle was a complete wreck. The loss
on the church, including the organ and
furniture, is $3.50, 100, covered by insur-
ance. The loss on adjacent buildings is
about $40. 600. The origin Of the fire is a
mystery, but the theory is that during the
thunderstorm that night lightning entered
on the ele trio light wires and set fire to
the building.
While Going Sixty Miles an Hour.
The fast Philadelphia express train on
the Pennsylvania railroad passed the main
depot at Railway, N. j., the other morn
ing four minutes late, running at the rate
of sixty miles On hour. The engine, Just
as it reached the last end of the long
bridge east of Main street, jumped the
track and was followed by five cars. The
train ran along the ties for 200 feet, when
the couplings broke between the cars and
each car tool a shoot.in a differet direction,
tearing up the rails and ties and digging
into the stone ballast of the road bed.
The passengers were all badly frightened
and shaken up, but the only persons in
jured were two ladies who were cut by fly
ing glass.
The Big Boston sIugger is Broke Again.
y New York dispatch says that John L.
Sullivan has run through every cent of the
princeIy sum earned by him IN his battle
with kilrain, aud is actually nearly SIS, 900
in debt to hotel men, wine dealers, cloth
iers. etc. This comes from good author
ity. Most of his New York friends think
the slugger will die q pauper. His course
OF dissipation is kept up unfaggingly.
Sullivan has received in the past seven
years from his fights, over q quarter of q
million dollars, all of which is gone.
Uncle sam Can Build His Own Ships.
The secretary of the navy is very much
impressed with the plan of the government
in building as many of its new war vessels
at the navy as they can handle. He has
only just recently given out orders for the
building of the new 5000 ton cruisers to
be built respectively at the Brooklyn and
Norfolk navy yards. He has had several
long consultations with the different bu-
reau chiefs, and he is convinced that not
only can the vessels be built as we'll but
hat the work can be done cheaper by the
than by contract. 1t is be-
that the building of these two
vessels is in the nature of an experiment,
and if successful the government itself
will become the principal builder of the
new navy. For this purpose the navy yards
at Brooklyn, Portsmouth, Va, and League
Island are being rapidly put in condition
to build the new cruisers.
Collided at Full Speed.
At Rapid Run, near Cincinnati, on the
Big Four" railway, a freight collided with
a wrecking train, both going at full speed,
owing to a misinterpretation of orders.
Fireman Morris, of the w~recking train,
WAS instantly killed and Fireman Whet-
stein was probably fatally injured. The
injuries of the other tralnmen were slight.
The body tf J. Daniels, the head brake
man of the freight, was found dead and
badly mutilated in the wreck.