Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1871-10-27

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ALL WE'RE UNREADY.
Spite of the warnings through the
two hours from s o'clock, none really
believed the village could DO destroyed,
or even seriously put In dangers hence
all were unready. As soon Us the out
skirts of the town began to blaze,
there was u pouring into the streets,
and q rushing towards the water ; but
the fire was fleeter than tho
a swIRrEsT RUNNERS.
The blasts of wind caught strong
men oil their feet and tossed them all
most like feathers ; the hot air Inhaled
made scores drop helpless, and two or
three seconds of flame turned them
into black and crisp corpses. Many If
those that made out to reach the water,
reached 1t only to be drowned BY the
crowding OF other men, and pushing
and trampling Of horses and cattle.
AN HEROIC GIRL.
Ono family became separated as
soon rs they were outside the door.
A daughter, IL years old, catching
hold Of little sister Of three or four,
took it by a fortunate path to n place
outside the fire, then started back to
lind. and help the rest. From this
undertaking Of certain death she was
held back BY main force. When the
fire had nearly burnt out size worked
her way through embers and burning
Goals to her home, only to find father,
mother, sisters and brothers all lying
dead, within the compass of o few
square rods. These corpses she dragged.
ono by one to an open and rather So
cure place not far of, laid them side
By side, and watched them all through
that dreadful night and through the
greatest part Of the next day, until
help came. What she suffseeoo Turing
those bitter hours, alone with her
dead, withou. food, without shelter,
almost naked In the frosty mir after all
was burnt, she herself is too young to
tell. But that even this one little
child was capable Of such devotion and
such courage and such endurance,
gives me an infinitely higher estimate
Of human nature than l ever had be-
fore. Iwish that some family OF large
heart and ample purse would adopt
the girl and give her such maintenance
and education as she deserves. lft!
MEN WE'RE DRIVEN MAD.
In another district called Sugar Bush
three settlements were utterly de-
stroyed.- houses, barns, crops-all.
After a hard struggle to stop the march
of the fire, some OF the men seeing that
all was lost, went mad and took their
own lives with such weapons rs they
could lay their hands to. as knives or
scythes. A day or two later the best
estimate made tho loss of life Mt eight
out Of every ten inhabitants Of this
neighborhood, seven or eight miles
long by four or five wide. The NUM-
Der Of families was about three hun
dred. I might give You the names Of
a good many of these dead II 1t were a
matter Of any interest to you.
FOUR LoAvRs OF BREAD TO BREAKFAST
TWO HUNDRED.
Over In Door county, on the east
side of the bay, fully one-fourth Of the
country people are thought to have
persisted in some largo nelghborhoods.
At one place, on the Monday morning,
200 persons made their breakfast OH
four loaves Of bread which had some
how been saved; their starved ana
shivered for thirty-six hours till help
from here by steamer. S
A BELGIAN VILLAGE DESTROYED IN FIVE
MINUTES.
At one Belgian village In that coun-
ty, Of a sudden in the Sunday night,
tho bell of their little chapel rang out
few alarm strokes, and within i've
minutes, or less, the world was NIL on
fire about them-the sky seeming to
then fall down upon their heads in one
horrible expanse of flame. Few came
out alive.
ADEsoLNTE COUNTRY. i|
For miles in any road we chose to
90 We found strewn along the high
ways and In the fields the carcases OF
cattle and horses and the corpses Of
men, women and children\ s2
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