Arizona citizen., 1875-10-30

dated Virginia 254, Gould & Curry 2o
 Hale & Norcross 35, Ophir 4S, Savag
 s5.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Otober 27.-Lates
 report from Virginia is to effect tha the Ophir shaft is comparatively un
 injured, and that the boilers and hesv,
 machinery are not badly damaged 6 and may be used again.
 EUREKA, NEW, October 22.-Th, railroad was completed to this plac' this D. m. General demonstrations or : the part of citizens The road is abou l. ninety miles long and is owned prin cipally by Edgar and D. o. Mills O
 California The construction of th, . road has involved an outlay of abou | $1 100000
 VIRGINIA, October 2S.- The fate long feared, has befallen, Virginia Yesterday morning at five o'clock the fire bell gave out news of an attack from the destroying monster: the fire
 began in a small house of i'll repute
 located near the center of the city
 half way between Taylor and Union streets It is believed that the flame:
 caught from candle which had beer left burning; the house in few | minutes was sll sblsze; engine No. i
 and Babcock extinguisher were soon
 on hand but were of no avail as 8 furious wind was blowing down
 mount Davidson from southwest; the flames spread with fearful rapidity light siding warped, flew of and scat
 tered the cinders broadcast; in fifteen
 minutes, more than a score of build
 ings in the vicinity were on fire; the
 wind increased, the fire spread in all
 directions until space equal to one
 block was on fire; flames licking the
 very clouds, roaring with ferocity in
 describable; their hungry tongues
 seized on brick, iron and stone struc-
 lures, and Tapped them up as ifthey were
 straw; the firmest walls melting like
 wax before intense heat. The wind
 now blew a gale, but setting in more
 steadily from the south and driving
 the flames Eorthwsrd enabled the fire
 men to check their furious progress
 sOutherly: to this fact the safety of the south part of town and on the divide is due. It was now seen that at tempts 70 stay the advancing flames would be useless and people began to
 remove goods with all haste; the fire swept along s street, encircling county buildings, from which the most valua- ble papers were saved; the prisoners in jail were removed to an old tunnel and were shut into it; the fire rushed on up to 4 street and swept one side of 1t and part of the other four blocks, then whirled northerly down the hill, encircling the bank of California, and began its march along B and C streets :; about the came time it crossed C street and swept down the hill to the opera house and railroad depot; giant pow der was now placed in the interior of the Catholic church and it was blown hundreds of feet into the air leaving the bare walls standing; this was done tostop the scattering of the great cind- CTS which were flying from it's roof in all directions; flames rose hundreds of feet in the air and the heat was so intense that adamant would melt be- fore it like tissue paper: goods remov- ed to the streets, instantly caught fire and were consumed; merchants now threw open doors and told the people to | help themselves tO clothing and gro ceries as nothing could be saved. Itl was now eight o'clock a. m. and the scene beggsred description; streets were filled with people, ieamsters were through the fire endeavor- ing to haul of goods, the fremen were fighting the flames at every presentable point, women were shreik- ing, the cries of despair and the curses of enraged men, the incessant roar of the flames, the dull reports of the ex- plosions, as building after building took fire, the thud and crash of the falling walls. the snapping of bursting iron bars and doors, and the howl of the gale, all went to create a most in- fernal chaos to eve and ear Marching down Taylor street on the south the fire passed across D street and on to G street. swallowing up churches and and aiming directly for the Union works just beyond. By half past nlne it was seen that the works could not be saved; the men were ordered from the shafts, the cages were pulled up and filled with earth, and : the buildings were abandoned. By ten o'clock the Consolidated Virginia Con- pany's hoisting works, mill and build ings, costing a million and half dol ll lars, were wrapped in flames and soon fell: the California stamp mill next went; the Ophir hOisting works soon fell in and the shafts took fire and burned down to the tiers of timbers, when streams of water were got on, and the shaft saved; water is still kept on the shan Some of the eNDIoSiopsi