Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-10-23
SPARKS FROM TaE F1RE.
scenes, incidents and Iseins from the
ChieaKo Collaboration.

SPARKS FROM TIE FIRE.
Scenes, Incidents ..s ISens frsm the
Chicago CsnAaEratisn.
Numberless incidents attending the
great fire in Chicago, some tragic,
Others ludlcrous, are being furnished
BY various reporters and correspond
ents, some Of which we give below:
HOW THE NEWSPAPER OFFICES PER-
IsHED.
Every newspaper in the city Of any
note Is gone. The times establish
ment was among the first to fall.
Nothing was saved from the doomed
structure except the bound files. The
reporters were ct work until driven
from their tables by the heat Of the
burning buildings in the rea alley.
The pressmen stood ready to work off
the edition had It been possible. The
printers worked ut the case until the
foreman drove them down the spiral
staircase, which was already enveloped
In binding smoke and advancing
flame. Then the night editor, and the
night reporter, and the city editor and
the other reporters who had been
working up the fire, burst In the doors
of the counting.room, forced the vault
and carried off the files of the paper
since its birth. The other offices were
gone, too. The Post and the
MaiI and the Zsitung, over on Madison
street ; the Republican, on Washington
street the Journal, down on Dear
born street, soon disappeared. For
awhile 1t seemed as If the fre-proof
building of the Tribune Company
would withstand the onslaught of the
fire-f1end. Up to 4 O'Clock the re-
porters had sent In detailed accounts
Of the fire. At s O'Clock the forms
were sent down. In ten minutes and
the two eight-cylinders In the press
room would have BEEN throwing off
the morning paper. Then the front
basement was discovered to be on fire.
The plug on the corner was tapped,
but there was no water. The confla-
grafton which had for some time been
raging on the north side had destroyed
the water works. There was not q
drop of water in the city. The press
men were driven from their presses.
The attaches of the office said good-by
to the handsomest newspaper Office In
the Western country, and tearfully
withdrew to a place Of safety. In q
very short time the office was envel-
oped In fire, and that was the last Of
journalism In Chicago for the time
being. a ss., ~ .-a
LOSS OF MRS. LANDER's WARDROBE.
Tonight, Theodore Thomas Orches-
ira was to have opened the Opera
House. Crosby had just refitted 1t at
a cost of $780, 600. Every seat in the
house was sold for the opening night.
The members of Thomas Orchestra
arrived In the city on Sunday, and
were stopping at the Sherman. They
lose all their baggage, instruments and
valuable music. Thomas himself had
a narrow escape from losing his life.
While endeavorlng to save some valu-
able papers from his room his retreat
by the southern. stairway'was cut oil,
and not knowing which direction to
20, he was wandering abou: the halls
in the heat aud smoke until rescued by
n fireman who had been on the roof OF
the hotel. This evening was also to
witness Mrs. General Lauder's first
performance at Hooley's Opera House.
The poor woman lost all her baggage,
including her valuable wardrobe and
diamonds. Mr.. Hooley, who boarded,
with his family, at the Briggs, also lost
everything, with, the exception Of a
change Of wearing apparel for the
children.
Il HAPPY FAMILY.
In the following circumstance there
was something like the awakening
from a horrid dream "to find 1t all q
dream ~ Mr.. Ferd. S. Winslow, the
well.known banker, owns beautiful
residence and grounds nearly opposite
to Wright's grove-a little paradise, in
which ne had taken peculiar pride. At
the near approach of the fire M of the
neighbors urged Mr.. Winslow's family
to betake themselves to their carriage
and flee. They fled for their lives,
and, along with thousands Of Others,
sought the bleak prairies, where they
camped out tor the night. Yesterday
morning Mr.. w. wandered back to
gaze upon the ruins Of his happy home,
when, 10! there burst upon his aston
ished vision a green oasis In the desert.
It was his own home, unscratched.
The fire had swept clean around 1t,
missing it miraculously. The happy
returned, taking many sufferers
with them. And their friends
have rejoiced exceedingly.
A GENUINE CURIOSITY.
The little one-story frame shanty, in
the rear of which was the barn In which
the fire originated, on De Koven street,
stands to-day alone and unlnjured.
The flames swept around it on every
side, igniting everything else, while
that miserable structure stands "A
monument of the place where the fire
commenced. VIII some enterprislng
museum please purchase 1t at q ficti-