Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-05-14
HIS DIRE PREDICTION.
DISASTER TO COME UPON THE
WHITE CITY.
Rev Robert pIuuteu, Texas Prophet, Warns
The Wicked chIcauOans Of
Ihelr Fate. t..

Chicago. May 13.--Ihe handwriting Is
GU the SKY. A prophet from the steppcs
OF TEXAS Is 10 town. lie alone Of all
the wise men has deciphcred tue hero
glyplhcs from on high, Tho worlds
fair buildings are 10 be utterly dc
molished. They are to be RACED TO the
earth 10y storm which will come out
OF the sast The Rev Robert ID. Plum
kett, fium Charlottesville IN the Lone star
stale, who is stopping at The Bilggs, says
40, and us he alone pOsseses the key 10
the shorthand remarks On the horizon no
Que can sily him nay. When he regis
bered late Tuesday night he LETT word
with the clerk that he would be at hoine
To All newspaper men; that they need
not 10 through the forinality Of sending
w their cards; all they had TO do was to
walk up and say, ~ Npr'sent 40 aud 40,
and he would do she rest.
He Is u TALL, slight man, dressed In
clerical costume, with supernhundancs
OF Gne whiskirs and curling hair. lie
fears that the Worlds fair VIII b. open
ed ON Sunday, and he hits felt called 10
Chicago To lille his protest and avert
financial loss TO the Columbian EXPOSE
ton management
The destruction Of the Worlds fair
buildings will not be done In wantonness,
but win be traceable " direct cause
Tint cause Is the culossilly SPECIFIC desc
Cfu4lOn OF fflt CubUAluf UNI " RhN 49,
Of the exposition company In throwing
the gates open 10 the people and then
the nyidity with which the public nvails
itself of the privileges conferred herv-
by.
He said that the destruction would not
come unless the gates We're opened on
Sunday, but that be- felt IN his bones
thnt Il would be done. Then look 'nut.
lie said many people wouldn't believe
him, but that Il had been the portion Of
all prophets who had the good OF the
pcople al heart 20 be reviled and disbe-
licyed CrlIs was the only part OF his
discourse that bad familiar ringJ HE
time set for the storm Is the afternoon
OF Sunday. July ~.
mer viii be- unusually hot and II VIII be
n season Of violent thunder storms aud
great winds As II 10 efiuce n greater
number 90 the fair grounds the forenoon
OF Sunday, July l6, will BE- beautiful.
There will not be Q cloud " the kky,
The sun will be shining brightly aud
there will be just wind enough 10 ruiile
the bosom OF the lake into small white.
cans. In the midst Of the heat Of sum
Iner the day will appear 10 be an OASIS,
for the gentle zeplyrr VIII make the
mntin hours exceptionally dehaons.
The cars gu tiie various lines Of trnlhc
will be crowded; the tallyhos and the
along the boulevard. Tho boats on the
luke crowded TOO. ~ u feeling the eK..
hiiaration Of the foainlng waselets, VIII
be bounding joyonsly along. As noon
approaches the breeze VIII die down. tie
| lake, without a touch ~ white 70 relieve
IT, swelling aud sinking, viii roll up and
back again upon the beach, The storm
will come upoa Us from lle east anu
black clouds will begin rushing along the
eoutheasterr horizon 20 n central point
As the clouds rapidly approach the light
ming flashes will he almost incessfnt,
and The reyerbcrations OF the thufaler,
| constantly increasing IN sound, VIII be
continual. The darkness OF total
eclipse viii Immediately precede the fate
| hl burst. Then Il will come, straight
on. a mighty hurricane, no cyclone, no
| switchinga. no curves. 10 DEFINITIONS, but
| q direct blow from the shoulder q
| Oninipofence Many will be killed. more
/ injured, hut the beautiful white city will
/ be no more.
but 4 xr-at lesson win be tanghi
| ti,ersl,y. ~ the Words fair l. u micro
| cosin " all The world. 10 Will this b.
| typical u the final obstruction ~ our
| pianet beranse Of The SIMS OF rs people
| The white CITY u beautiful, and is NJ
| eridence Of tnnu's genius but Il alse
| zhawa his IinItafiona. IL 10 beautiful