Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-04-20


dier's heart beat with the recollections o
a day almost forgotten, as he gazed upoi
the sight.
TIE CASUALTIES.
As far as learned. no serious results &C
Cured to human life, save the burning O.
Mr.. Moch, of Moch's restaurant. The
flames spread so rapidly that no one
thought of Mr.. Moch, and the first int
nation he had of the fire was when the
flames reached his room. Death put an
end to his suffering last night.
Mr.. Frank Anderson was badly burned
while trying to save his household goods.
Billy Mulch, foreman of Rescue No. /,
had his foot badly injured BY having the
hose carriage run over it,.
Joe Winzell was slightly burned trying
to save some household goods.
Dick Rvland was struck in the eye by
a stream from a hose, and was slightly in
jured.
Tommy Douglas also suffers from an in
jured eye, but beyond these cases we
learned Of no further injuries sustained by
any one.
Judge Hubbard's family had a narrow
escape, as had several other families on
Buel street.
The charred remains of Dixie and Frank,
the two inseparable dogs connected with
the SENTINEL office, were found among the
ruins.
A HEROINE.
When the fire first broke out Mrs. A..
SkiIlman, the wife OF our junior proprie-
tor, had retired, but on awahing realized
the danger to be encountered, and inme-
diately prepared to meet it. While friends
listlessly around, prepared to see
their houses swept away, she seized a
bucket, and mounting the roof OF her
house soon saturated it with water, and
thereby saved it from igniting. Her ex-
ample was contagious, and Mr.. J. S.
Whitton's residence was also saved through
her exertions.
THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE.
There is a difference of opinion as to
how the fire originated. First reports
placed it in the bakery next to the Opera
House, but otAer accounts locate it in the
green room Of the Opera House. Mr..
Bartlett says the hall had not been un-
locked since the night Of the Old Folks
Concert, and if it did start there it must
have been the work of an incendiary. Mr..
Dan. O'Rourke, who was one Of the first
men on the ground, is positive in ms as
sertion that the flames first broke ont in a
building in the rear of the Eureka bakery.
How it did originate viii in all probability
always be a matter OF conjecture.
AMUSING SCENES.
Some amusing and ridiculous scenes
occurred during the fire. We saw half a
dozen men Juggling the top of a dressing
bureau outside the reach Of the flames,
utterly Obvious of the fact that the glass
had been broken out and the frame was
comparatively worthless.
A woman attempted to carry a show case
to the top of Mob Hill, and before she
reached her destination she had scattered
the contents ON the road, and had only an
empty case for her trouble.
Men and women could be seen on Clark
street putting on their neither garments,
utterly obliyious Of the surrounding crowd.
TIE
From first to last the fireman worked
nobly, and added new laurcls to those al
ready nobly earned. The Hooks and
Knicks ran their hose through Clark and
up Buel, and fought the flames until the
intense heat compelled them to retreat, and
they were obliged 10 abandon their hose,
which was destroyed. Tommy Douglas
held the nozzle until it was SO hot that his
hands blistered. One thing, however, was
painfully apparent, aud that is they need
u common head of chief.
POLICIES.
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