Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-06-09
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Holocaust i'm Connecticut !
FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE AND PROP.
ERTT.
A Dozen Men Buried Beneath Fall
ing Walls.
Full Particulars Of the Calamity.

BRIDGEPORT, June s.
The most disastrous fire aver ex.
perienced here occurred last night. AT
1880 a light IA discovered in the
fourth story of Glover, Sanford &
Sons factory. The alarm was sound
ed, followed by a second, and the
whole fire department responded.
The water supply proved insufficient,
and the fire thereby obtained mastery.
The flames were first seen in the dye.
ing or mixing room, in the northwest
corner of the third story of the main
building, and running along hat floor
was communicated by a dummy to
the stories below. The main building
was $50 feet long, so feet wide, and four
and q half stories high. While the
volunteers were removing goods from
the office Of a one story structure, sud
denly, without warning. the back and
front walls Tell out, leaving the two
highest walls unsupported. The one
adjoining the office leaned outward,
and as a shrek vent up from the
spectators, it fell upon the roof of the
office, crushing through to the base
ment, and burying those within. One
man who escaped, stated there were a
dozen men in the ruins, and already
eleven bodies have been recovered.
nearly all fearfully crushed and more
or less burned. Sanford's loss on stock,
building and machinery, will reach
S25C 900; insurance, $l5O,000.
LATERAL the same time each end
wall also tell, carrying fire into a wing
ITO feet long and 80 feet wide; this WAS
also completely destroyed, together
with engine and boiler rooms; the ad.
joining walls fell about 1890, and, as
soon as possible, search for the miss
ing was commenced; but it was 5
o'clock before the first body was re-
covered; during the next hour eight
were found, and by l0:30 two others
had been taken from the ruins. The
bodies we're placed in wooden boxes,
awaiting the action of the CorOner's
Jury. The names of those recovered
are O.. j. Acker, limbs burned off to the
knees; he leaves a wife and two chill.
dren; George Acker, Sol OF o. j..
crushed; John Gallagher, leaves a
wife and children; Charles f. Dart
leaves a wife and two children: John
Malloney; VIM. Mcintyre, head sew
cred from his body; John Tomlin,
burned beyond recognition, but was
identified by his watch and ring. One
other body, supposed to be hat of a
man named SWeeny, was found with
his limbs burned off; another body
was so crushed and burned as to he
unrecognizable, but was supposed to
be that of a man named Coyne. The
original building was erected at a cost
of $4,000.
Peter Cooper on Currency-Prize
Fight In BroOkIyn-Jerome Park
Races.
NEW York, June 8.
Peter Cooper has just addressed an
open letter to President Hayes. criti.
cising the past financial policy of a
sovereign government, and also mark
ing out q proper course, in his opinion,
to be pursued in the future. He be
gins the letter with these words: cal
low me to offer you my heartfelt
thanks for the wise and independent
course you have adopted in the dis
charge of the responsible and difficult
duties that you have been called upon
to perform" Cooper says that our
national currency must be made re-
ceivable for all purposes throughout
the country, and interconvertible with
the 5 per cen government bond; such
a currency would have been worth
more to tie American people than all
the gold mines that have ever beer
discovered on the continent. He al
vises that silver be Withdrawn from
circulation, and used in the purchase
of foreign bonds, and the fractional
paper currency to be revived.
The prize fight between Mclaughlin
of Brooklyn, and Williams of Jersey
City. took place to-day In a rear room
on the outskirts of Brooklyn. Twen
ty-one rounds were fought, when Nc
Lsughlin was declared the victor.
Both men were badly punished.
JEROME PARK. June g..
The first race for 2.year Olds, u half
mile dash, was Won by Perfection
Duke If Msnents second, AllevueI
third; time, 81 seconds.
NEW YORK, June 8.
Richard B. Connolly, al the Tam.
many ring, has opened negotiation,
l,mklng to the restoration Of u Tart vi
his plumber, now held in the name ol
| his son-in.law. The terms under con.
s,derati"n primarily concede u peace
ful return of Connolly from exile. The
restoration OF aver 81 900 900 will prob.
ably be demanded from the ex Con
t~rOller.
A Great Fare Ia GALVESTON. Texas
A.ox-. $4,000. OOO.
GALVESTON, Texas, June 8.
Three blocks we're DESTROYED ny fire
this morning. The principal losers
we're the Grand Southern Hotel, Zeliy