The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-08-26
[from tho Herald. August IS.
CANYON CITY BURNED.


[rrom tho Herald. August 1871 ss'
CANYON CITY BURNED.
A terrible calamity has befallen
Canyon City, mining town in Grant
county, Oregon. The town was To-
Gated in beautiful little canyon, and
is well known To old miners in Ore
gon and many citizens OF this city. :
Last Friday afternoon about one
o'clock flames were discovered issuing
from the roof of the International
Hotel, better known as Blossoms Res
taurant, on Washington street, An
alarm was at once given, aud all the
people in the town were soon at the
scene. Every effort was made to ex-
tinguish the fire but it had obtained
too much headway before it was dis
covered, and owing TO the dry condi-
ton of the building it was soon en-
veloped in flames.
From the building the flames COM
municated with those in the immedi-
ate vicinity, and in few moments it
became apparent to all that there was
no hope of arresting the progress of
the fire, and that the entire city prop
er, huddled together as it was, would
be destroyed. Citizens now rushed
wildly TO their houses 10 secure their
most valuable articles. Behind them
the flames shot high in the air and
bent over as if to lap mp the tinder-
box houses on every side. On, on
they came. driving people from their
houses and creating n scene that beg
gars description. Parents seized their
children and leaving their homes, fed
to the knoll known as Rebel Hill,
out of the reach of danger. Some of
the men stayed behind aud dragged a
portion Of their household goods into
the middle of the streets in the vain
7 hope that they would there be safe.
The scene as Witnessed from Rebel
Hill il said to have been magnificent
and awful. In less than half an hour
the entire town was one vast sheet OF
flame, from the surface of which dark
volumes of smoke rolled hea-enward
There was not a breath of mir stirring
at the time the fire broke out, but
now the heat caused by the immense
fire brought the air rushing to fill the
vacuum created. Light, half burned
boards were torn from the burning
buildings and hurled high in the air.
In about an hour all that remained
of Canyon City lay in smouldering
pile of cinders. About seventy five
houses were totally destroyed, and
about one hundred and fifty people
: left without homes. There are three
buildings, which stood apart from the
town proper, now standing. Several
: houses back of the town, on Rebe
Hill, were of course uninjured.
1t is estimated by parties who lived
:. : in the town that the loss is in the
: neighborhood of $3.50, 900; between
!, S25, 900 and $50, 900 of which is GOV
= cred by insurance. Following arr
: the principal losers and the estimated
amount of each loss: Grant county
/ both Court Houses. Jail, &c. so 900
'' Mccullough & Hillman, $50, 200 =
Messenger Il Kaufman, $15, 900; Sell
Il 'Stemme, 81 900; +. C. Sells, SS, 900
), E. J. w. Stemme, 81 600; Geo. B
~ Fearing & Co., $4,000; Gundlach 4
!, Bro, SS, 600; French Hotel, s12,0
). G.. A. Beison, 5000; Woods 4
- Churca, Sc, 900; Neal cNulty, So 900
Haguewood e. Mclean, So, 900; Johl
Stahl, So, 600; DIR. Horsley, $1,000 :
:. DIR. Tierney, $4,000; Rinehart
= Overholt, S. 900; Castle & Saltonstal
. 81 900; M. st. Clair, Sc, 900; D
. Metschan, $1,000; Hyatt. & Co., SO,
. 600; d. j. Beasley, $4,000; Tisdal
L & Co., $4,000; Bryer & Stemme, 50,
= 600; Odd Fellows Hall, S., 600 Ma
= sonic Hall, $4,000; Good Templar
. Hall, 81 600; M. M. Bradley, 81 200
!, L. w. Poindexter. 1000; Howard
= 81 800; Overholt & Pellet, So, 900. =
u : Cole & Cordel, $1,000; J. r. Ray
= 81 900 John Augley, 81 600; Trov
: bridge, 81 500; Judge Haguewood
y 'e 81 900; Sam Lee, $4,000; M. Lorcf
. estimated, 81 900.
We are informed by M. Lorch, VIII
arrived in this city yesterday, that th
. remains of two Cinnamon, who al
:. supposed to have been under the il
=. ~ fuence of opium at the time the fiji
- occurred. were found in the ruins lal