The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-11-03

Consolidated Virginia and California
mine, known as the c. & q. works.
were unharmed. Inquiry also gives
out the fact that the insurance COM
panies, though many Of them suffer
heavily, will come up msniully. pay
ing all demands. A large portion OF
TIE insurance is with foreign compa-
nies. which will be able TO bear II,
aud the local companies also claim
that none will go the wall IL was
given out By those known to be in
sidersr that Consolidated Virginia
would pas dividends as usual, though
probably at reduced figures. All
these considerations soon had the ei-
feet to turn The tide Of feeling, and
now the general impression IS that
while the eonfagration is unquestion-
ably seriously disastrous, It's effect on
the financial interests of California
will be but limited and temporary
On the street afterward stocks raj
lied, and the feeling in business cir
eles was greatly improved.
The agent of Wells, Fargo & Co.
at Virginia City has telegraphed for
aid for the people rendered homeless
and destitute by the eondagration.-
A circular has been telegrsphed by
Wells, Fargo & Co, of the city, %
their gents in the principal towns ON
the eoast. directing them to send
contributions of food, clothing and
other accessories TO the Virginia
agent free of charge. The agent
here has telegrapbed $1,000 to Nir-
ginia. on ccount of Wells, Fargo d
Co, San Francisco. The Board OF
Brokers. at the close of the afternoon
session, held a business meeting and
$4,000 was subscribed in a few mo-
ments, which will be at once trans
ferred by telegraph. The Pacific
Stock Exchange will take action IN
the matter tomorrow.
But few details have been received
ia addition to what has already been
reported. 1t was rumoIed tonight
that the Ophir shaft was on ire, but
I..ter advices report that the lire only
extended down the shaft a short dis
lance, being stopped by the bulk
head. The amount of insurance
written in the burnt district is not as
certained, but is supposed TO aggre-
gate in the neigbborhood of $1,000,
900. No report of losses is yet re-
ceived from agents, and it is impossi-
bic to state the proportion of losses
to risks. A rough estimate places
the total loss at two millions. No
loss of life is yet reported.
The great number Of people repor-
ted turned out of doors by the fire,
stated at ten thousand, is accounted
for by the fact that owing to the Pc
culiar mode of life led by the great
population engaged in mines, who
work by shift day and night, III many
instances the same lodings are occu-
pied at different hours by numerous
tenants, and at no time are house
hold accommodations equal to the
demand of the population. Nearly
all lodging houses and dwellings &C.
by miners were in the track
of the conhagration, its northeaste,ly
being 10 the immediate neigh
borhood of the mining works. The
FIRE. has now burnt out, and all dan
ger is at an end.
SAN Francisco, October, 27.-A
dispatch to the Cal, from
Virginia says that the destruction of
the city was owing to the bad man.
agement of the engineer of the fire
department. At the beginning o. the
conaagration, which started in an
undertaking establishment on b ST.,
spreading to an adjoining livery
the streams were turned on
the stable, allowing the flames to
communicate to the county buildings
the fireedepartment lost IFS
hold, and the wind blowing briskly
the west carried the flames
through the town. The water sup
ply gave out, the engines aud hose
were burned in the street, panic
the citizens and the fire swept
on unimpeded, destroying everything
in its course
Approximate figures from the in
surance companies place the losses
by them in the neighbor-
hood of $1,000, 600. Among the
heaviest losers are the Etna, Imperial
and Queen and Commercial Union,
about 500, 600 each; North British
and Mercantile, 100000 London
Assurance and Underwriters agency,
$50, 600 each; Hartford and Phoenix,
&c, some S35, 600 each; other Eas-
tern and foreign companies for small
Ter amounts. Among local compa-
MES the Commercial loses 500, 600;
Mutuol, $4,000 or more;
Fund, $4,000. None of
tie companies admit that they are at
all embarrassed by their losses. A
dispatchfrom Los Angelica promises :.
liberal subscriptions Of money aud
supplies.
SAN Francisco, October 27.-
Additional Cal special from Virginia.
good fortune the wind shifted
and the south end of the town was
saved but the fire still swept on
1VrthwardlY. The town presented t
1 scene of the widest confusion and
panic. The streets were blocked l
with goods and household furniture. I
The recent scourge of typhoid fever i
caused the presence of many helpless I
nvalids, who were being carried to I
places OF safety by friends. The ex-
ortionate demands OF the owners of i
7ehicles. in one ease at least, caused {
. murder. A mar on b street en- c
leavored to engage a teamster, and
Unable to comply with his demands, !
n desperation dreva pistol and shot
he driver dead.
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