Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-18


were: Pine street house; Philaborunl
block; Eckerman's drug store
Matthew Wilson's residences
Sedgwick's hotel and store; Nc
MIchaePs shoe store; Launkowell
h tel. Ne less than three hundred
aud fifty residences, including some
of the finest in the city, are In ashes.
The $780, 900 court house was gutted
but the public documents were
saved. The prisoners in the county
Jail, which occupied the basement
OF The court house, were liberated
Several cows and horses were burneC
and little child sleeping in Laun
howell hotel is missing.
A conservative estimate of the to
tai loss is oyer half million dollars
Hundreds of families who we're ren
dered homeless are being cared fol
by people in the portion Of the city
which escaped the visitation. The
scene on the streets tonight is ter
rible. Homeless people are running
frantically about, making endeavor'
to save some little portion of theil
most valuable effects, which had
been dragged from the houses, but
in most cases the flames spread Sc
rapidly that little or nothing could
be carried away. Above the cries OF
women and children and the shout
ing of men, could be heard the ex.
plosion of dynamite used by the
firemen to blow up buildings in the
hope of staying the flames, and
agsin the heavy concussion of q
boiler in some business building
which had exploded, throwing de-
bris In all directions. Firemen
Iabored under difficulty from the
start. The gale which was blowing
scattered huge blazing brands far
beyond where the men were work
Ing, and caused new fires to sprinQ
up constantly.
FROM MEXICAN SOURCES.
Cry OF MEXICO, May 1s.-ThC
American ship Charleston and the
Chilian man-of-war Esmeralda are
lying anchored near the entrance tC
the harbor of Acapulco. The Chill
ian captain says his vessel has not
called at any American port. Con
sequently, he says, it is not probable
that the United States authorities
will interfere with the movements
of either himself or his vessel. An
official of the Esmeralda, in reply
to a question put to him In the tele-
graph Office in Acapulco as to the
probability of an old-fashioned sea
fight between the Charleston and
Esmeralda, said in q jocular and
rather ambiguous way: ooh, the
Etata is already out Of danger. She
has plenty of coal and provisions to
carry her to her destination" This
remark has given rise to the report
that the Etata coaled at sea and
proceeded to her destination, while
the Chilian war ship steamed for
Acapulco TO throw the United States
authorities Off the track.
JUCH COMPANY DIsBANDs.
ST. LOUIS, May lS.-The Emma
Juch opera company has gone to
pieces and it's members will have to
pay their way home.
TWENTY Two INNINGS.
TACOMA, May 1s,-'rhe second
largest game of baseball on record, was
played bytheTacomas andSeattles,at
Tacoma on Saturday. 1t took TWEEN
ty-two innings to decide the contest.
The score was tied twice after the
ninth inning, Time; Three hours
and thity-tlve minutes.
PROFESSOR FOUND DEAD.
SAN FRANCISCO, May ls.-Prof.
George Little, IA weil known in-
structor in music was found dead In
bed this morning, having been as
phyxiated by gas.
SENTENCE COMMITTED.
WASHINGTON, ID. G. May S,-The
today comnuted the
death sentence of the three Ma
'assa rioters toimprisonment TO for life
STATUTE or COLUMBUS.
BosroN, Mass, May lS,-At a
mass meeting of Italians held last
'venlng movement was started 10
rect aud present to the city of Bos-
on a statute of Christopher Column
rus 10 cost $4,000 or $4,000.