Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1883-05-08

mess men apd people and residents Of
Idaho City. Before midnight, as the
wind abated somewhat, the sky cloud
ed over and a furious, very cold rain
and dIsagrseable storm of wind, sleet.
hail and snow set in which lasted for
about three days and nights afterward
By early dawn Of day, the next morn
ing, among the victims of misplaced
confidence in the permanence and sta
bility Of Boiss Basin mining towns,
who were perched like a small army
of disconsolate grasshoppers on the
heights surrounding the smoking ru-
ms Of the commercial emporium of
Idaho City, with tears in their eyes.
ind Iookin out for some other place to
emigrate to.
Through all the vast throDg,
There at once rose avail;
For their idols vera shattered,
| In the temples of Ball.
and of Mammon they had erected for
the worship of "the Golden Calf,
For three days and nights, about the
same length of time the prophet Jo-
nah was in the whales belly, in the
tempestuous and bilowy deep, but
little was done, except to hang our
harps on the willows Of what remain
ed of the mining Babylon of Idaho
City, and like weeping Jeremiah, III
dulge in long-drawn signs and lachiy-
NOSE CALCULATIONS over the great city
/ of Babylon which had fallen, and lay
, lin ruins at our feet.
On the morning of the fourth day,
, the eventful 22d day of May, 1865,
) council of war was held, an informal
: "Senatus consutum," formed, and it
) was unanimously resolved, David
' Crockett-fke, to ''go ahead and re-
j build the city as rapidly as possible,
e and within sixty days from that date
: Idaho City had arisen like the Phoenix
t from it's ashes, and had once more a
r proud local habitation and a name.
d among the mining towns of the Pacific
K Coast. Several fine brick structures
T. replaced those OF wood which had
J. been burned. The Jenny Lind theatre
/. building of S. q. Rosenbaum which
= had escaped uninjured, scarcely char
h red at all, was sold by that gentleman
:, to John McGregor, who opened a
j. hurdy-gurdy dance house hereafter,
s. thoroughly rcftting and repairing and
N refurnishing it in good style. The
le theatrical company, the principal act
n or and actress of which had been has
e tily driven wild with terror and af-
o. fright from the stage that fatal night
,e arrayed in the stage costumes of Ro-
II meo and Juliet in one of the love
e. scenes of that comedy, went first to
IN Boise City, and afterward to Salt Lake
70 City, in Utah Territory, where they
u. had long and a very successful en-.
ID gagement in the Mormon theatre
= there, during the summer of that year
y Mrs. Hayne subsequently went t.
rs Montana Territory, married a Mr.
nd Cooper, a miner there, and went bacE
lg to her native State, and died in 1868
81 iu New York City,
Many business men were hopelessl,
bankrupted by this burning of Idahc
City. Some succeeded in compound
ing with fereign creditors and som,
did not. Many left the country com
petely demoralized, discouraged an,
al Disguised. Some went away tempo
- rarily and returned again. Man,
more left never to return.
Is The population Of Idaho City, prop
1n, err, was lessened by the effects of thi
Isl. great publication by the frey furnac
an to less than 5000 A long list of tn
: names of the losers and of the amount
Vi lost or claimed to have been lost b
sN- each was published at the time b
nd Butler Bros in the Boise News, thei
Tho weekly newspaper. then published a