The New York herald., 1875-10-29
THE BURNED CITY.
The Mines Inspected and Found
Almost Uninjured.
HELP FOR THE HOMELESS.
Partial Lifting Of the Gloom of
the Disaster.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 2s. 1s1S

SAN FRANCISCO Oct 2s, 1876
The latest report from Virginia City, says the miners
have been through all the mines from Gould Currys
to the ophr and have found the slightest damage
in any of them by fire. excepting in the ophir which
is damaged by Are the extent Of thirty feet only
There is no damage either the shaft the drifts OF
the Consolidated Virginia. A permanent relief COM
mtee organized here, this forenoon, with Senator
Jones' Chairman. An executive committee was
set and Senators Jones and Sharon headed the
list with 81 900 each, and the mining companies and
stock brokers contributing freely and largely
There is general rush to the rescue The 'Bonanza"
kings have ordered the restoration of the great hoist
ing works, but 1t will take months to put them in
working order. The heavy gloom that hung over this
city is passing away.
CONTRIBUTIONS SUFFERERS.
The Pacific Stock Exchange has started subscription
for the Virginia City sufferers 1t expects raise 600
or 1000 meeting held tonight at the Palace
Hotel Among those present were Senators Sharon and
JONES' Mayor Otis, E. J. Baldwin, James r. Keene j.
c. Flood, W. T. Coleman, W. F. Babcock, and other
prominent citizens committee was appointed which
will meet tomor morning TO concert measures of
relief
1t is stated that the insurance the Virginia
City property has been greatly underestimated and
that the total losses of the companies fall much
short of two millions. 1t is feared that two
local companies may go under.
special despatch to a journal here this evening
from Virginia City, says the best business estimate
the loss ST. ooO one-third of the in
foreign companies and tho rest in local large
Der of and children have been sent to Gold Hill
Reno and California To-day there light wind
and showery weather threatened.
Hundreds OF people are in the ruins searching tor
articles of value. Safes are being pulled out of the
ruins. The vaults of the Bank of California all
right-only few papers we're lost.
HELP.
Carson City sent car load OF provisions for 2 500
persons and they being dealt out at the First ward
school house. Reno, Gold Hill and other towns are
sending food and clothing There fully 5000 peo
pile without food, BEDS roofs money. fthese fully
500 are without necessary clothes. Should harsh
weather set in much suffering must ensre.
The injured mines cannot, it is said,
get buildings and machinery up under sixty days.
Rebuilding will go all the city, and this will
give labor to hundreds in clearing the ruins &c Tho
people in good spirits. and while terribly afflicted
brave. Hundreds are too proud to say they need
help, and ladies go out and find women and children re-
quring food but ashamed to beg it. This feeling is
laxing however under the kind Offices of the relief
committee which is already partly organized. Some
shanties being put up, and workmen busy shut
ting Off broken water and, gas pipes and getting the
worst debris out OF the Some of the
utterly impossible, being choked with the ruins
FERocIrY THE
is seen in the twisted and warped work and heavy
walls drawn out OF shape. Dangerous walls being
blown up every few minutes and others are being
pushed The streets and open lots present a
of ndescribable confusion numbered with broken
furniture, damaged goods and broken machinery. The
machinery of the hosting works burned is believed to
be badly damaged but not utterly ruined The water
in the Consolidated Virginia Mine is being pumped of
through the Gould and Curry and other Mines but the
pumping facilities far inadequate. Last night
the shaft of the Andes Mine FIRE and sent up
column of flame $50 feet high. 1t is
believed it will burn out the shaft and 90
no further communication being pretty well cut or
below This mine is in the southern region of tho fire
and above it, and took fire from flying cinders. Its
buildings not burned. All the men got out with
out injury Some of the burning timbers of the ophr
shaft fell down and sent gases Of burning wood up
the Gould and Curry shaft. The water lifted up
and then dropped back forcing the gases back 1t IS
believed there Is fire in the ophir mine at all.
Water, however, is kept on the shaft
Another despatch from Virginia City this evening
says the Gould and Curry mine is full of gas from the
injured mines, and the men cannot go down. Work
has been stopped in the mine Mr.. Mackay, of the
firm of Flood o'Brien, says no ore will be hoisted
the damaged mines before next spring; that this
throws $500 miners out OF employment; that many
thousand people will leave here, and all that is
needed is money to transport them.
THE MINES REPORTED NEARLY FREE PROM
DAMAGE-sToCKs RECOVERING.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 2S, 1875.
Private dispatches convey the gratifying information
that the mines are all right Men have been through
from the Gould and Curry mine to the ophir. There is
no fire in the works and damage has been done.
The water is decreasing. Tho damage to the ophr
shaft IS limited few feet the top The Consoli-
dated Virginia evidently feels the effect of the news,
having just gone up 245 and $50 in the Board against
232k in the open session.
AID FOR THE VIRGINIA CITY SUFFERERS.
Messrs Laidlaw 4 Co. make the following acknowl-
edgments Of donations received to date:-
j. h W. Seligman Co. Co......................... 500
S W. Boocock q Co. Co.......... >............. IuO
@ K Garrison 100
Theodore Braine & Co. Observation-Disclosures. %
j. >. ..........................
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