The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-27

A great fire is now raging in Virginia
City, Nevada. 1t broke out early this
morning. Six or seven blocks, including
the postofflce, telegraph office, and the rail-
road depot have already been destroyed.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26-l0a. m.
A late< dispatch from Virginia City, just
received at the office of the Consolidated
Virginia mining company, says: Virginia
City, north of Taylor street, is all burnt.
Our mills and works are all gone. The
fire is still raging. The fire engines are
useless, there being no water.
THE BUSINESS PART OF THE CITY DE-
sTRoYED.
1:05 p. M.--The fire is now under con-
troll. 1t has apparently burned itself out.
All of the city north of Smith street is de-
stroyed The burnt section includes the
principal business part of the place. Tenn
porary telegraph offices are being provided.
FULL PARTICULARS.
a.r t.t.fs SAN FRANoIsCo, Oct. 26.
Owing to the destruction of the telegraph
office and the press of private dispatches
over the lines it has been difficult to OBJ
tain any connected information concerning
the Virginia City fire. The following,
however, is undoubtedly correct, as far as
heard The fire broke out about daylight,
in a dwelling near Taylor street, in the
southwestern terminus of the business and
thickly settled portion of the city. 1t
spread rapidly, extending eastward tow ards
the ravine, in which are situated works
and mills and several prominent mines,
and reaching as far as F street northward.
The flames crossed Union and Sutton
streets, covering aspace ofabout ten blocks,
comprising, in the words of our dispatch,
"almost every decent building in the town."
AS the fire worked up O street the offices
of the Territorial Enterprise and Chronicle
we're destroyed. Piper's opera house was
next in flames and it became evident that
the railroad depot and the hosting works
of the Consolidated Virginia mills were in
danger. The water supply was inadequate
and the engines were of little use, so re-
course was had to blowing up buildings.
1t was too late, however, and in few
minutes theldepot and hosting works were
in flames. The latter were recently
completed at an expense of several
hundred thousand dollars and were the
finest on the Comstock lode. Continuing
to the north and east, the partially COM
pleted mill of the California mine and the
Consolidated Virginia mill we're soon in
flames, which spreading still further north
to the Ophir hosting works, destroying
them also, which is about the limit of the
destruction in that direction, the fire dying
out for want of fuel. From Taylor street,
near which the fire originated, it
spread southwark against the wind, de-
stroying the branch office of the bank OF
California, Wells, Fargo q Co.'S express
offices, and everything else in lis line. Al
this point, the Gould g. Curry works were
in imminent danger, but were fortunately
saved.
In short, nearly the entire business por.
ton of the town is in ashes -hotels
churches, county buildings, newspaper, tel
egraph and express offices are all swep,
AWAY. Over ten thousand persons art
made homeless The wind is piercing, ant
much suffering is anticipated before tenn
porary shelter can be prepared. 1t is i'm
possible at present to conjecture the amount
of loss. The destruction of the mills ani
hosting works above referred to will prob
ably entail the loss of million dollar
within the radius of few hundred feet
Fortunately, the shafts of both Ophir ant
Consolidated Virginia were bulkheaded
and tho fire was kept out of the mines
The Ophir men say that possibly their los
may be less than at first supposed, as thu
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have burned without destroying the ma
chinery. The loss ON buildings and merch
audise In the city must be very great, al
though covered to great extent by insur
ance. 1t is not known to what extent thu
mills and hoisting works were insured ex
cept in the case of the Ophir whose loss !
placed at $3.50, 900 to 100000 with insur
ance at 800, 200.
| In this city the news created the creates
excitement owing to the contradictory ma
ture of private dispatches received. Cali
fornia street is full Of wild rumors and tn
telegraph and newspaper offices are be
sieged with people snxiously seeking intel
ligence. AS might have been expects
stocks at once fell. The effect Of the dis
aster when the board opened by the call @
Ophir there was tremendous rush, tha
stock selling as low as $751;; Consolidate
Virginia dropped to $40, but subsequent
rallied. The talk on the street was yer
gloomy. At first it was supposed ths
the disaster would entail necessar
stoppage of all work on the Bonanz