Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-03
Tho Burnins Of tho State Prison.

We coudense from the Appeal the fol-
lowing statements in regard to the de-
.truc,ion BY ERE Of tho State Prison, on
Wednesday night:
The prisoners were all locked up, and
all the 6res, in the kitchen and else
where about the prison and its premises
were eItinguished, simultaneously, that
10 to say, at the usual hour for combining
tho prisoners in their cells, at half past
six o'clock P. Y. Two hours and a half
subsequent to this time-about O'Clock,
Tom Haiues, one Of the guards, discov.
cred FIRE inside the kitchen fence and
contiguous to 8 large pile Of stove wood
which was against the stone wall OF the
building and reaching about tothe roof.
Haines Immediately gave the alarm,
and he and the rest of the guards exert
ed themselves to their utmostin attempt
ing the eItinguishment Of the flames.
Finding the FIRE getting beyond their
mastery, Mr.. Deputy Warden Mason dis
patched "Mose" q colored man en-
ployed about the Warm Springs Hotel,
on Lance Nightingale horse "Blue
Dick" to town, to inform Lieut.-GoV-
ernor Slingerland, who, in company
with his wife and Mrs. Mason, was at
tho Theatre.
So soon as the light Of the fro was
discovered from our streets the Carson
engines were started for the scene. 1t
il we'll nigh on to two miles hence to
the prison, yet those two engines were
dragged along At such . rate - to get
there in time to save the new part OF
the prison from being burned, aud to
rescue tho Warm Springs Hotel, adjoin-
ing, entire. Too much praise cannot
DO awarded to our 6remen and the citi-
zens who assisted them for their we'll
directed efforts to I'VE
The loss to the State from this disas-
ter 10 variously estimated, all the way
from $l0,0 900 to $4,000. (Doggett in
,roducsd . s~windling bill into the Ter
.itorial Legislature, by which the State
became liable in tho sun Of $50, 900 for
the concern A close calculator upon
such matters thinks the prison might be
restored in o better condition than ever
for ten thousand dollars.
Among the incidents Of this occur
renee may be mentioned the fact that
Nose rode Blue Dick so hard a. to cause
that hot-urged beast to fall, PROSTATE,
after he had got back to his stable at
tho Springs. Messrs. Nightingale and
Miller, proprietors Of the Warm Springs
Hotel, kept "open house" during the
entire night and supplied tho 6remen
and the public at large with refresh
ments, freely and for nothing; Sheriff
Smith WAS very promptly on the ground
and made himself particularly useful in
directing movements and keeping things
in order generally. The FIRE was burning
q late ~ yesterday noon, and Governor
Slingerlsnd took three Of the prisoners
with him to keep il within bounds.
Lieut. Governor ~Slingerland states
that some weeks since he discovered q
plot whereby the prisoners were to be
supplied, by . discharged convict, with
arms from the outside. He got wind OF
this plan in time to prevent it; but, tax
ing It in connection with the circum-
stances Of the breaking out Of the FIRE,
the time and place Of its occurrence, and
he entertains NO doubt that N inceu.
diary confederate of the prisoners did
the work Of destruction.
MORAL, By TIE APPEAL.
State Prisons should always be pro-
vided with q vigilant night guard and
an efficient FIRE apparatus.