Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-12-19
EASTERN Intelligence.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND LOSS
OF LIFE.
Wall Paper Mandatory Burned.
FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED.
A Daughter. Whipped for EIoping.
SHOT AT FOR HARBORlNG ELOpeRS.
Wall Paper Mandatory Burned.
FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED
A Daughter. Whipped for EIopIng
SHOT At FOR nARBORlaG tlOptRS.
Stephen Cooper Delivers Califor.
MAS Electoral Vote.
BY Telegraph to the Sentinel.

BUFFALO, N. Y, December 1S.-A seri-
Gus fire, attended by a heavy loss of life,
occurred last evening about 6 o'clock.
The fire was discovered in a immense
fve-story building, owned by George W.
Tihlan, and occupied by Birge & Sons,
wall paper manufactures. The building
is so feet front by about 800 feet in depth,
and about $50 men and boys are employed.
At the present time the business demand
ing extra help, all Of this number were at
work, In less than twenty minutes after
the alarm was given the building was a
mass Of flames. The walls crumbled and
fell, and probably burned from 20 to 80
employees. The doors to the different
rooms were hung to swing in, each having
a heavy spring fastening, thereby retard-
ing the egress of the occupants. The
building was without fire escapes OF any
kind. The terrified workmen jumped from
the windows, and many escaped with
broken bones and bruised bodies. Those
in the upper stories, unable to escape, ap-
peared for a moment at the windows, and
then sank back, suffocated by the smoke
and flames. Jas. Ryan and John Kennedy,
employed on the fourth floor of the build
ing, jumped to the ground, escaping with
slight bruises. A small boy, name IN
known. was seen to jump from the fifth
floor and catch hold Of a telegraph wire,
which broke, and sliding down the wire he
escaped with only badly cut hands. The
parents and friends of the dead and miss
ing ones surrounded the ruins. The streets
are full of rumors, and probably tho list
of known to be killed" will be more
than doubled when the smoking bricks
and ruins can be removed.
LATER-All the employees of Birge &
Sons are accounted for except eight, pre-
viously reported missing, and seven since
reported killed by the fire. So far fifteen
lives are known to be lost. Two bodies
were recovered this morning.
A Desperate Case of ~ElOpement.
FALMOUTH, KY, December 49, On
Wednesday night Miss Artemus Fields
daughter of Loren Fields, living six
miles from Falmouth, attempted to elope
with Robert T~hornberry, but was over
taken by her father and whipped home.
Night before last she eloped again. Fields
pursued the pair to 'one Joseph Elliot's
house, where Thornberry and Miss Fields
WcIcs Il lIcu ~ GiilOt, WuOm nO dCCuSCu
of aiding the elopement. The only shot
that took effect was one that grazed his
daughters ear. The fugitives escaped.
The Electoral Vote of California.
WASHINGTON, December 18.-The cleo
toral vote of California was delivered to
Vice President Wheeler yesterday, by the
venerable Stephen Cooper of Colusa county,
as special messenger of the Electoral Col
lege. Despite his eighty-four years he
came across the continent for that purpose,
and appeared at the Capitol yesterday af-
ternoon as hearty, hale and fresh as most
men born after the close of the war OF 1872,
in which he participated.
Senator Booth says the statements at
tributed to him in the alleged interview re-
Gently published by the Washington Ma
tional Republican, and autographed to Cali
~fornia, concerning the Senatorial contest,
were manufactured by the writer of the
interview from q few casual remarks made
in q private conversation, which were either
imperfectly understood or Intentionally
misrepresented, and that he, therefore,
without entering into specifications, pro-
nounced the alleged utterances unauthor-
lied and Enthusiastically.
Children Burned to Death.
PETERSBURG Val December 17.-Yes-
terday, Anthony Tucker and wife. colored,
living in Prince George county, locked their
two children in the house and went out to
pick peas. During their absence the build
ing accidentally took fire and was entirely
consummed. The two children persisted.
One Hundredth Birthday.
ST. LOUIS, December 17.-Levi Petit.
bone celebrated his Tooth birthday here to-
day, at the residence OF his son-in.law,
Capt. Frank Burnett, U. s. Inspector of
steam vessels. The old gentleman is in fair
health and received the calls Of his many
friends with much pleasure. MI. Pettibone
was born at Norfolk, Connecticut, and emil
grated to Missouri in 1917.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
New York, December 1.-THE fly
wheel in John EtEer's kindling-wood fac
tory, West Fifty Fifth street, burst to-day.
A piece struck the boiler, which exploded
and fatally scalded the proprietor.
Six hundred and eighty-nine immigrants
arrived to-day.
Suicide.
COLUMBUS, December 17.-Jos. Smither,
a prisoner in the County Jail awaiting sem
tenca. commiktad suicide nv Quitting his