Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-10-27
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SAN Francisco, O-tobcr 70.
\ great iilo is now raging in Virginia City. Ne
yada. Ii broke out carry this morning a six Or
seven O'Clock. Many buildings iIclGuius the tel
egraph Office and railroad depot are already
burned.
A later Il. patch from Virs1ia Civ Saw VIZ
GINA City north Of Taylor street j, all burned.
The mills and works Of the Virginia Mining Co.
are al! gone. The ire is stu II 1inr. Fi.c en-
ines ule useless, there being water.
ll.50 y. NJ. The Virginia tily hrc is now I'M
d.. control. The fire has appalenily banned itself
o.. all the city north of South ST. is aestro! ed.
/ a bulnt district includes the principal businss ;
part If the place.
owing to the destruction Of the telegraph office
aad the press OF private dispatches over the wires,
it has been difficult to Obtain any connected inior-
n alton concerning the NNsi mia City fire. The
following, however is undoubtedly correct a. far
Tho Inc broke out at daylight in a dwelling on
street near Taylor street GA the southwestern
.i;l.it OF III. business and thcAy settled portion
OF the city. 1t spread rapidly, extending east
works and mills and several prominent mines, and
reaching as Tar as slfet, nJrthwatd. The
dame, crossed Union aud Sutton streets, GOVERN :
a space of ten blocks, comprising IA the words OF
one despatch, "a most every uecfnt building IN
the town.
A, tie fire worked up Street, the Office of
The Territorial Enterprise ami Chronicle was dc
stroved Papors opera house was next IN flames
and it became evident that the railroad depot and
the hosting works Of the Consolidated Virginia
were in danger The water supply was made
auate and the engines OF little use; so resource
was had to blowing up buildings. IL was too Ia t
however, and III few minutes the depot and the
hosting works were in flames. The latter was
recently completed at an expense of several hum
bred thou sand dollars, and were the finest on the
Comstock lode. Continuing to the north and east,
the partially completed mill of the California
Mine and the Consolidated Virginia mill We're
soon in flames, which spread still further north
to the Ophir hosting works. destroying them
also which is about the limit of the destruction in
this direcli N, the fire dying out for want Of
fuel.
From Taylor Street, near where the fire orisi-
mated, it spread southwark against the wind, de-
stroying the branch office of the Bank of Calitor
MIA, Wells, Fargo Co.'S express office and every
thing else in its line AT this point the Could x
Curry works were in imminent danger, but fortu
uately were saved. In short, nearly the entire
business portion is in ashes.
The hotels, churches, county buildings, news
paper, telegraph and express offices, are all swept
away. over 10000 persons are made homeless.
The wind is piercing, and much suffering is ex-
perienced before temporary shelter can be pre-
Iared. 1t is impossible at present 10 conjecture
the amount of loss The destruction OF the
mills and hosting works above referred to, will
probably entail loss of million Of dollars with
in radius of few hundred feet. Fortunately
the shafts of both the Ophir and consolidated NW-