Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-07-07

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this house caught the whole blocl
would have followed. Keyser 4
Elrod's roof Was kept safe by waite
being thrown when ever Ere
brand fell, and it at times swarmet
with men passing water along from
hand to hand.
THE RINCKLE BLOCK SAVED.
George MorrisoD's experie nee il
worthy of special mention. Wheu
| the flames from Liyingston's saloon
threatened to attack the Rinckle
building, the heat was 80 intense
that it vas deemed impossible fol
men to keep the hose playing on
the balcony, which caught on fire.
George Morrison asked the men to
keep him wet down with the hose,
and climbed to the top of the roof
with another hose. Here he rolled
! himself in the gutter of the roof to
keep wet, and was also covered
with wet blanket, and there, with
gloves on his hands and his face
nuffled, he stuck by the hose until
the building across the way fell.
and saved the block by his gamy
determination, while the crowd
cheered from below.
AL, Hofer stuck to his work I'M
til his hands were burned, and
Jack Brady was also a sufferer in
the same direction. The clergy
were also hard at work. Parson
Hammond was on deck in hi.
shirt sleeves carrying coffee, Parson
Davis put in his time on the hand
engine along side of judge Belk-
nap. Mrs. William F. Wilson
made wash boiler full of coffee,
and could be seen circulating among
the firemen, a welcome guest, with
her cups of the steaming beverage.
Jake Klein ordered a wagon to go
to the brewery and bring down all
the beer the firemen wanted. The
saloons in the vicinity contributed
brandy by the case, to brace up the
men, and everything in fact, in the
vicinity was at their disposal.
Scores of ladies who at first came
to the scene of the fire ont of curl
osity' sooo caught the infection
and excitement and helped to move
goods with a will.
Willard, the laundrynan, worked
like . beaver in the Adams House,
and was the last to fall back.
E. B. Rail was very active
throughout the fire.
Frank Gundry, in saving furni
ture, went down with falling stair |
ease, and was picked up insensible. |
James Kerr fell in a faint near
the Adams House and had to be
carried away.
Carrie Wright and Jake Allen
back were both slightly injured by
falling timbers
1t would be hard to enumerate
personally, all who stood in,"
everybody worked with will, and
it was only by united efforts that
the town was saved.
THE BRICK SAFEGUARDS.
The four brick buildings that
confined the fire to its limits, were
the Bullion & Exchange Bank, the
Rinckle building, Kitzmeycrs
brick furniture store, and Kitz-
brick store occupied by
Walter Chedic. Those buildings
set Oh the four corners OF the blocks
STAYED the progress Of the flames.
THE HAND GRENADEs
Came into good play. Mrs. Rinckel,
Wien she saw the danger Of her
,Li.ding, ordered $50 worth to be
brought up and used. They did
.,od service. Que of them, thrown
nto Mrs. CarJer's room at the
Western Union Office, put the fire
'ut there, aud they were also used
With good effect in Chedic's store
PAYING THE MEN.
The Bullion Bank gave fifty dol
ars to each fire company, and dis
ributed 500 among the men who
vorked on the building.
LATER ESTIMATES.
TIE losses enumerated in yester
|ay's extra were hurriJIy complied.
NE following are later estimates: ,
D. Gree $2O.OW. Mr.. Gree was
aging z per cent, and a raise to
II having been made by the insur- t
nee companies, he declined to re- t