Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-10-28
CINDERS.

o ClNDEkS.
It was reported that two men were
suffocated in the Gould & Curry
= SHAFT yesterday. Not true.
Il The brokers of San Francisco tele-
;, graph that they have $4,000 for vir-
= ginia now collected.
The Bank of California opens to-
day in the Office of Driscoll Il Co.,
y and the Post Office in the Beardsley
Block.
John Scullion, was buried beneath
the wall Of the International Hotel
. at 2 o'clock on Tuesday, and dug out
an hour later unhurt.
}, The Enterprise lost all of its news
paper files, dating back to 1856. This
is serious loss and one that cannot
be repaired.
t Two car loads of cooked provisions
and $4,000 in money was the Carson
and Reno donation to the Virginia
sufferers yesterday.
3 So far three bodies have been dug
from the ruins and coffined for
burial. They we're beyond recogni-
ton.
! We regret to learn that Mrs. A. p.
n Hornick lost all her household fur
p niture. 1t had been removed to Vir-
gina for safe keeping. Too bad.
Already the stills for some of the
q new buildings of Virginia are laid
r down and the work OF reconstruction
f has commenced.
DR.. Spaulding's fine saloon escap-
f ed the fl re, but is somewhat damaged
by water. 1t opens again this morn
ing in good shape.
G A devil in human shape tried to
fire the G. Il C. hosting works on
Tuesday night. He was not shot,
| but ought to have been.
. Nearly all of our Virginia City adj
! vertisers have lost largely by the
fire. They shall live, prosper and
be happy again if the TINES gets its
, sincerest wish.
Mr.. Fred Titus, formerly of the
Brunswick mill, is now employed at
, the Pioneer mill, and has moved his
family i'm town. He lost all of his
household goods in the fire.
The TINES extra WAS the first pub
lished news of the Virginia fire.
, Copies were circulated i'm Dayton,
silver and up the canyon at 2:30 P.
NJ, Tuesday.
Several ugly rumors obtained cur
rency in Silver City yesterday; one
that five men had been arrested on
suspicion and one shot in the act of
setting fire to buildings in Virginia.
They were not true.
The total amount of losses by the
ere, as far as ascertained and re-
ported by the Gold Hill "New"
figures up not quite 81 ,00e, 900. This
amount will be greatly added to
: when the full list is reported.
Piute Charley yesterday brought
in two cork screws, and old jack
: knife with a faded handle, and sew
eral other worthless relics from the
fire. He says, "IIeap dam hot up
'Ginny yesday."
A thief was arrested at Gold Hill
yesterday, while trying to sell case
of surgical instruments and one vol
ume of medical work for 50. These
human vultures should be severely
dealt with.
: Worry few of the "fire proof safes
withstood the intense heat, but We
hear OF one in which bucket of
} water had been placed to save the
} valuable papers from charming, and
!, which on being opened yesterday
! revealed every paper in good condi-
ton and the bucket of water--frozen
} perfectly solid.
The remains Of a human being
were yesterday taken out of the
ruins of Singleton's boarding hoHse.
The remains were past Identification,
|. but are supposed to be those of
, night Waterman who usually slept
/. in the building. Another body was
taken from the debris of Currie's
auction house.
TUESDAYS MAIL.-All the mail
lying in the Virginia Post office,
on Tuesday morning. including
that which arrived on the morning
train was totally destroyed by the
fire. When the train arrived the
fire had not made sufficient pro-
gress to alarm the Postmaster, and
the mails were delivered, as usual.
When the fire approached towards
that point, the CONSERVATION was so
| oroot that No WAGON cOu1l he oh