Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-10-29

The Virginia City Fire.
The Loss now Estimated at
$7,5OO,OOO.
Further Particulars.

San Francisco, October %. The Pacific stock
exchange have started subscription for the Nir-
| gna City sufferers and expect to raise four or
| hive thousand dollars.
| At a meeting last night, Senators Sharon and
Jones, Mayor Otis and other, were appointed
committee to meet to-day and concert measures of
relief.
1T is stated that the insurance on the Nirg mia
City property is greatly underestimate, and that
the total losses cannot fall much short of 81, 000
| 600.
| 1t is feared that one or two local companies may
90 under.
| \ special despatch last night from Virginia
City says that the best business mel estimate the
loss at 81 5000 900, third of which is in for
! ei9n and the rest i'll local companies.
| The people are in good spirits. Hundreds are
too proud to say they need help, and ladies 90 out
and find women and children needing food, but
ashamed to beg it. This feeling Is relaxing, how
ever, under the kind offer Of the relief committee
which is already partly organized
| The I'M ured mines cannot get buildings and ma
chinery under sixty days. Rebuilding will go on
all over the city, and this will give employment to
hundreds, in clearing the ruins &c.
Proof of the ferocity of the fire is seen in the
twisted, warped iron work, and heavy walls drawn
out Of shape. Dangerous walls are being blown up
or pushed over.
some shantes have been put up, and wOrkmen
are busy shutting the broken water and gas pipes,
and removing the worst debris Fl ON the street.
ne machinery OF the nOlstinn WORKS, winch
were burned, is believed to be badly damaged,
but not utterly ruined. The water in the Consoi-
dated Virginia mine has been pumped Oft through
the Gould and Cory and other mines, but the
pumping facilities thus far ale very inadequate.
| Last night the shaft of the Andes mine was on
| fire. and sent up column of flames $50 feet high.
1t is believed it will burn out the shaft and fgo
| further communication being pretty well cut OFT
below. This mine is in the region south Of the
fire, and was ignited by flying cnders. Its build
ings were not burned. All the miners escaped in
safety.
A special from Virginia City, says that the
Gould and Carry mine is full OF gas from the in
jured NINE. The workmen refuse to go down,
and work has stopped in the mine. Forty feet Of
tie Consolidated Virginia shafts timbers are
| burned.
| No ore will be hoisted from the damaged mines
before next spring. This throws $500 miners
out of employment. Five thousand people will
in consequence leave Virginia City, and what is
now needed, is money for their transportation.
large number of women and children have
been sent to Carson, Gold Hill, Reno and Calfor-
MIA.
To-day hundreds are in the ruins searching
for articles Of value. Safes are being taken
! out.
The vaults of the bank of California are all
right, only few papers being lost. Carson sent
cart-load of provisions, and they being dealt
out at the first ward school-house.
Reno Gold Hill and other towns are sending
food and clothing. There are fully 5000 people
without food, beds, roofs or money, and of these
| fu 'ly 500 are without necessary clothes. Should
severe weather soon set it, much suffering must
ensue.
Private dispatches convey the gratifying infor-
nation that the Virginia City mines are all right,
men have been through from the Gould & Curry
mine to the Ophir; there is no fire in the workings
and no damage has been doue The water is de-
creasing. The damage to the Ophir shaft is lin
tied to a few feet at the top. The Consolidated
Virginia evidently feels the effect of the news
having gone up TO 245 to $50 in the board, against
POP 2 = in the open sessioa.