The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-17
TALMAGE'S CHURCH, GONE
THE THIRD TABERNACL BUILT
FOR HIM BURNED.
Big Tab rnacle Organ-The Tab
ernacle Will be Rebuilt.

NEW YORK, May 15.-The Rev. DR..
I. De Witt Talmage's church. the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, and the Hotel
Regent, which was the finest hotel in
the East outside of New York city,
were completely destroyed by fire Sun
day, and the Summerfield Methodist
church and no less than twenty resi-
dences were damaged to greater or
less extent. It was one of the great
est fires that Brooklyn has ever seen,
entailing as it did, loss estimated at
about million and a quarter dollars.
1t extended over the two blocks. The
Fire department was incompetent to
handle it.
Guests of the hotel had to flee for
their lives. Some of them came down
the fire escapes, and one woman was
carried down. DIR. Talmage himself
death, and so did several officers of
the church. Less than ten minutes
before the fire was discovered there
had been 5000 persons in the church.
dad the discovery been made while
they were there, there would in all
probability have been stampede and
fearful loss of life.
So far as is known no one was killed,
though it is impossible that there may
be bodies found when the ruins Of the
hotel are looked over. There were
the majority of them being firemen.
While the fiemen were called incom-
potent, they did not lack in bravery
and energy.
The woman who was carried down
the fire escape is in the Brooklyn Hos
pital, and her condition, the result OF
the shock to her nervous system, is Sc
riouS. Her three-weeks-old baby, it
is feared, will die. Prof. Brown, the
organist of the Tabernacle, who was
still playing on the organ while the
home in very dangerous way, the re-
suit of fright and shock.
DR.. Talmage is going abroad this
week, and Sunday he preached his
farewell sermon. 1t had been we'll
advertised, and the great audience
filed not only the church, but the
lecture room. The sermon was enti-
tied ga Cheerful Church." and in the
course of it the preacher took occasion
to describe his own church. The
preacher concluded in his usual style.
Christ, move on"
III BUILD A NEW ACLE.
An effort will be made to rebuild
the Tabernacle. 1t is hoped to raise
5000, 900 by popular subscription. Ii
the money cannot be raised, DR.. Tai
| mage will not return to the Taberna
Gle pastorate. He insists that the
new church must be free of debt On
the day it is opened. DR.. Talmage
did not postpone his contemplated
trip around the world, but started
| last night with Mrs. Talmage for Sar
Francisco by way of Philadelphia and
Washington.
"The Tabernacle was insured fol
S13O, OOO," said Leonard Moody, "ant
| the land is worth $4,000. Russell
Sage's mortgage is for 1925, 900, will
accrued interest in addition. The
property is now worth 100000. w,
Twill collect the insurance and pay Mr.
| Sage, and the sale of the land will pa.
the rest of the debts, so that we will
| just clear ourselves. We shall be lief
| without a cent.
| eve shall want $780, 900 to rebuild
We shall have to pay $40, 600 for sit
and 100000 for building, which will
| be larger than the church destroyed
| though less expensive.
| s'The Trustees have pledged
round sum, to begin with, but l an
| not at liberty to state the amount
We hope the public will subscribe tn
rest"