Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-10-29
THE VIRGINIA CITY CALAMITY

Austin. The ore assays 800 a ton.
THE VIRGINIA CITY CALAMITY.
The Gold Hill News of last Monday
comments e%ditorially on the great fire
at Virginia City as follows:
Virginia City has again been made
the victim of an almost insupportable
disaster. Early this morning a fire
broke out ON A street, just north of
Taylor. In an hour thereafter the
whole north end OF Virginia City was
q seething sea of flames. 1t is simply
impossible to estimate the damage to
property, but thus far comparatively
little loss of life has been reported.
The extent of the disaster can hardly
be comprehended without personal
observation. Nearly every prominent
business house in north and middle
Virginia City is q mas of ruins.
From Mill street on the south and the
west side of Summit street on the west
to the extreme northeast limits of the
city, tho fire has left naught but a mass
of smouldering. biackened ruins. The
loss cannot fall short of three millions
of dollars. 1t may, for aught we al
say, be double that sum. Every house
on Howard, A, B, c, d, E, F, g, and
H streets, from Taylor on tho north to
the extreme limits of Virginia City on
the south, with but few exceptions, has
fallen into ruins. Every business
house from the corner of e and Taylor
to the line of the Ophir works has been
destroyed. Two-thirds of Virginia
City is a mass of smoking ruins. There
we're doubtless some serious inJ uries
to persons, and loss of life, although
the umerou reports thereof cannot at
this time be corroborated. Space for
bids a recapitulation here of the losses
sustained by prominent citizens.
Judge Rising, Martin, Foreman, Dag
get, Tritle, Wood, Seely, Mackey and
a hundred others in that locality, have
at this moment no shelter but the
clouds. Northern and central Virgil
MIA is a widespread d~esolation.
Buildings Blown UP.
The fight against the fire was as Wig
orous as could be made, no effort be-
ing spared to stay its progress. The
aid of powder was called in, and build
ings blown up at different points to-
ward the north and east of the city but
the flames leaped yer all obstacles,
and places which M minute were
hundreds of feet distant from the fire
were the next a sheet of flame. 1t ap-
peared for q long time a. if the new
G. Il C. hosting works, down in Chi
natOwn, we're doomed, but a desperate
and successful effort was made to save
them.
The men In the Mines
Were, so far as is known, all got out,
and among the general disaster we are
pla ased to state that we have not any
loss of life to chronicle. OF course all
particulars cannot be learned in a few
hours, and it is possible, and even
probable, that out of the thousands
who were rendered homeless a few
may have been too late in attempting
to escape.
Two Men Killed...The Lives Of Tive
Children saved.
We learn that Mike Malone, Of Gold
Hill, was killed by a falling wall on
| Union street, between d and Z streets,
Mr.. o. ID. Williams, while climbing a
burning stairway on b street, discov.
| cred two small children asleep, ap'
parently forgotten and left to theil
fate, and taking one under each arm,
he rescued them from their perilous
situation, and placed them in the care
| of Pat. Ennis, Of the Emmett Guard
where the wner can find them. An
| other man, whose name we could moi
learn, was killed, and another wound
ed by a falling wall of Frederick
jewelry store.
The fire has been stayed at Marye''
brick building, between b and {
streets, and On Smith street below E
r and g streets. A report comes JUS
as we 60 to press that six men have
| been buried in the ruins of some Of thu
falling buildings near the corner o
Taylor and G streets. This needs
confirmation.