Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-02-09

Terrific Tersado-The "waahee Zephyr
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About daylight this morning a heavy
clustering gale set in from the south
west, which soon ripened into a goo
square hurricane, and about 0 or 10 A
NJ. IL blew harder than the coolest in
habitant" recollects knowing Of in thi
section. By reason of its superior el
ovation and peculiar locality, on
neighboring city, Virginia, receive,
the greatest force Of the gale, ant
pretty much all the damage don,
thereby. We were there. and there
fore speak from our own observation
TO say that the wind blew furi
ously conveys but a faint idea o
the thing. The dust in the beginning
blew in thick, binding clouds, sweep
ing down the streets and driving int
houses through every crack and Granny
to the huge disgust of everybody
Soon, however, the loose dust was al
blown off, and the streets left clear
and smooth. As the hurricane fresh
ened in furious gusts and whirlwindS
chips, tin cans. boards, signs and sim.
liar articles flew high In air, and II
IA really dangerous to pass along the
street, just from those flying missiles,
Gravel stones also flew with great
force, cutting the c%ountenances OF
those who ventured to face the storm,
and rattling against the houses like
buck-shot.
LLLUsrRATIvE.
AS an illustration of tho force OF
those flying gravel stones, we saw the
side lights Of n watchmaker's show
window on Il street. riddled with
about a dozen holes made by them
round holes, just rs though made by
pistol. bullets.
EARTHQUAKES NOWHERE.
The earthquakes visiting this section
lately, although some Of them were
considered strong and dangerous, were
mere trifling transitory affairs, COM
pared with the effects of this bit of 4
"washoe Zephyr" Houses in Nir-
Sinia shook ter~riflcally, and far worse
than any earthquake ever thought Of
shaking them. Earthquakes have sinh
ply succeeded in tumbling down 4 few
bricks and frightening people with i
characteristic jerk of a few seconds thu
ration at n time, but this big wind did
far more damage, and kept ut it, until
people not only got much frightened,
but several got hurt.
FRI ALARMS.
As n matter Of course, where CHM
news were tumbling down and stoye-
pipes blowing about like rye straws,
fires might be expected therefore
everybody wa OH the alert, especially
the Fire Department. At . O'Clock the
alarm bells were sounded. induced by
a little fire on the top of Piper's Opera
House, caused by flying sparks. 1t
was, however, eNtinguiShed without
the aid of the engines. At 10 o'clock
another alarm induced the machines to
roll. caused by the burning out Of a
chimney on Masonic Block. Had any
fire got a fair start. the gallant fire
laddieS would have had a rough time
of IL indeed. In order, however, to
guard against any emergency Of the
kind as far rs possible, Chief Fox took
the wise precaution to order the fires
in Chinese wash-hOuses and all dam
gerous positions to be extinguished,
and Chief Downey, with his police
force, ably seconded the order.
DAMAGES DONE.
About 9% O'Clock. during the great
est force of the gale, the fire wall OF
the International Hotel, fronting on b
street. suddenly fell with a loud crash,
carrying with 1t the entire porch be-
low, and also the sidewalk beneath.
The tin roof of tho Courthouse also
rolled up and blew of, throwing down
the south fire wall. smashing through
the roof of the building adjoining.
The tin roof of Black Il Bros brick
building, corner of e. and Taylor
streets, was blown OF. and before the
iron shutters of the south side windows
OF the upper story could be closed, con-
siderable damage was done to the glass
windows and to Hedger & Noes pho
toSraph gallery, inside. 4 partition
was thrown down, destroying 1000 or
5000 valuable negatives. Much more OF
the gallery arrangements were injured
and Hedger Il Noe are quite heavy
losers by this i'll wind, which certainly
blew them no good. The tin roof OF
the Russell & Williams brick building
on South c street, opposite the Savage
works, the upper story Of which Is oc-
cupied by Hurd's Photographic gal
lery. was also blown entirely of, and
other similar roofs about the city were
damaged more or less. Indeed We saw
some Single roofs cleaned OF their
covering "a though n shovel had been
used. leaving nothing but the bare
boards. On + street, north OF Union,
one Good sized wooden building was
blown completely over on its side, ana
the two-story II next north o. IL Was
also blown nearly down. In the nrSt
house was Mrs. Pryor and two emil
dren. aud, strange TO say, all three
r.caned without u scratch-or by q
scratch. The second house was oecu.
pied by a family. but, being alarmed
by the terrible shaking Of their haD-
itation, they had taken refuge across
the street. Steele's big barn on Taylor
street, a house on North Is street,
another ON A street, and several more
In other parts of the city we're oiown
entirely down. and many were cor
siderably damaged BY having the ir9h.s
blown out, being thrown from their
foundations, etc.
ON. THE DIvIDE.
Ono building had the front piown
out, another was blown entireiy ~
pieces, and several Others were badiy
rackei and damaged. The two south
chimneys of the Chollar-Potosi once
We're blown down. and the telegraph
poles on the south side Of the DiVioe
were Frustrated.
PERSONS INJURED;
A man who does not wish DIS nanls
mentioned, working near the S,e SER,
Nevada mill, had his right shou'd Rr
badly broken by a flying timber: nS
the falling Of the intern s a
Hotel fire Wall, II. S, Beck reSeiyeO
severe injuries, and his iel 0ar sess
was thought to be Drohen,
Mr., Preston was also struck Dy soins
Of the flying debris, and received I : rev
severe scratches and bruises; Sheril
Cummings, who was beneath the porch
4Sad'the rim torn from his hat oya fall
ino timber, which BACKED his right eys
IT. the same time, and passed through
"r.o,t beneath his feet. III