Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-09-06
LOOKING BACKWARD.
An Old Carsonite Reyiyes Inter.
eating Incidents.

years II recorded in one volume
would make Interesting reading.
When one turns back his thoughts
to ea5ly times he will often re-
! member many things of al excit-
I ing nature Such it is with this
writer
Distinctly do / cali to mind the
evening Of AIay l, 1857. On that
| evening q fire broke out in the
southeastern part Of the State
Prison. Lieutenant Governor
! S,inGerlHH8 was tht"N olilci0 War
den at the time and the prisoners
were all locked ia their cells. Ton
! Hdines. 4 guard, discovered the
| fire inside the kitchen fence and
contiguous 20 n large pile of stove
wood which was against the stone
wall of he building, reaching al
most to the roof The guard i'm
mediately gave the alarm and,
with the other employees at the
penitentiary, exerted himself to
extin.uish the flames.
Deputy Warden Mas on. finding
the fire beyond control, dispatched
Nose, Il coloTed man employed
about the Warm Springs Hotel,
on Lance Nightingale horse,
Blue Dick, TO Carson TO inform
Governor Sutherland, who, in com
pany with his wife and Mrs, Mason,
was at the theater. Nose rode
Blue Dick" az that animal had
never been ridden before and made
the best time that was ever &C
complished by any sort Of a nag
between the Springs and Tim
Smiths stable nov Ray craft
Brothers.
Being notified by 4 whisper OF
the fire by Nose, the Cover nor,
whose team was near by the thea
ter, procured a pistol Of Gus
Lewis and made double quick
time to the scene. Upon his ar
rival there he found that Lieuten-
ant Judd, the Turnkey, had re-
leased the prisoners from their
cells and had them assembled in
the large common room of the
prison. Cooking his revolver and
drawing a bead on Rattlesnake
Dick. who, with Lee, a Washoe
county horse thief. was sus-
piciously near the door, the Gov
enor ordered the cOnvicts TO fall
into close single file and to follow
him into the prison garden. He
faced them and walked backward
as he led the cClum1, and they
, marched along without a waver.
Reinforcements soon arrived in
the persons OF Sheriff Smith,
Lance Nightingale, Hal Clayton,
Bob Sharp and others, who came
TO his relief with the proper
weapons. The convlcts were then
punched and guarded all night
and in the morning brought to
Carson and lodged in the county
jail.
As soon as the light Of the
| fire was seen in Carson tue engines
were started for the scene, It is
about one mile and q quarter TO
the peDitentiary. yet the two fire
engines were dragged along at
such speed as to get there in time
to save the new part Of the prison
building from being burned. The
fremcn waged a fierce battle
with the flames and prevented
them from spreading to the Warm
Springs Hotel now part OF the
prison, but at that time conducted
10y Larce Nightingale AID Norg
| Miller
The loss of tie State from this
disaster was estilnated 10 he about
SI0. 002. Governor S!ingerlanJ
lost $4,000 in notes, greenbacks
and vouchers. Besides, his wife
and children all their clothing
that they were not wearing. Mrs.
5 ingerland lost, among other
things, 5000 worth of jewelry
The employee of the prison lost
heavily in clothing and other
property. The total lost by the fire