The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1894-11-21
FOREST FIRES.
A Colorado Town Destroycd---Large Loss
of Lives and Property.

| FORES Fixes. -
a Colorado Town Destroycd--Large Loss
of Lives and Property.
BOULDER. Col, Nov. ia forest
fire which was started from a camp
fire last evening has been raging all
night and today North of the mining
camp of Gold Hill, town of five hun
dred inhabitants, fifteen miles from
here. The timber is as dry as powder
and fierce wind carried it over five
miles of dense timber in short time.
Fifty people came into Boulder this
afternoon in wagons from Gold Hill
mostly women and children. They
report that the business men and min
ers were carrying what goods and
property they could into the mining
tunnels and had abandoned hope Of
saving their stores and dwellings.
A courier arrived at Boulder at 80
p. M, reporting that all the buildings
at Camp Talcott, short distance
from Gold Hill, were burned except
the stamp mill and that the fire had
reached the Western portion of Gold
Hill, burning the mill of the Prus-
sian mine. Several ranch houses
were burned this morning, two men
named Eihler and Zaman being badly
burned
At 8 p m. the fire was spreading to-
ward the town of Copper Rock. The
gravity of the case is fully appreciated
here at Boulder and the utmost ex-
element prevails. It is believed many
small camps will be burned. The resi-
dents of Gold Hill who have not come
to Boulder have assembled on the top
of Horsefel Mountain and are watch
ing the progress of the flames as they
consume their former homes. The
wind is blowing furiously and drives
the fire before it in large sheets of
flame.
The property loss will amount to
over 81, 500, 900. There viii necessa-
rily be great destitution. Among the
business houses at Gold Hill are the
following: Frank Body, general
merchandise and postoffice; Dr. Tro-
vilian, drug store; Johnson and Haw-
kins, general merchandise store;
James Corvell, boots and shoes; Mrs.
J. Murphy, hotel.
SEEN FORTY MILES AWAY.
DENVER, Col, Nov. 15.-At3 o'clock
fierce wind and dust storm struck
the city from the North, filing the air
so that it was impossible to see across
the street for long time. Many plate
glass windows and awnings were de-
stroyed. The temperature fell 90 de-
grees in thirty minutes. Before the
storm broke dense clouds of smoke
could be plainly seen rolling up the
mountains around Gold Hill forty
miles distant. At 6p. m. wet snow
began falling but it is probably too
late to save Gold Hill from destruc-
ton.
LOSS OF LIFE LARGE.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 15.-Reports
from the forest districts in this vicini-
ty show that while the loss of proper
| ty is not great, considering the extent
Of the territory covered, the loss of
life exceeds apprehensions. Within
fifteen miles Of Memphis three lives
have been lost by fire in the past two
days, and there are rumors of a fear,
full burning in Arkansas, where five
lives were lost. The remains of five
human beings were found, with the
flesh and clothing all burned off, in
St Francis bottom, all within quar-
ter of a mile of each other There are
fears that they are the remains of a
party of hunters from Texas that went
into that country last week, but there
Is nothing to support this except the
number of the bodies.
Fatalities in this county are pecu-
liarly distressing. Fanny Woods, an
aged negress, had her dress ignited as
she fled from a burning house, and she
ran, surrounded by flames till she fell
dead. Pitt Roy, a nine-year-old boy,
ran into his fathers house, which was
afre, to save some property. The
house collapsed and he was burned to
death before many spectators. The
name of the third victim could not be
ascertained.
THE DESTRUCTION VERY GREAT.
| LONDON, Nov. 15.-As a result OF
the violent winds, heavy rains and
overhowing rivers the inha bitants OF
some of the river side villas at Eton
and Windsor are obliged to approach
the doors Of their houses in boats. Up,
wards of a.thousand persons in Bath
are rendered homeless by the over,
flowing of the Avon. Generally the
rainfall continues, but the gales have
subsided.
LONDON, Nov. 15.-The British ship
Culmere, Captain Read, last reported
at Hamburg, October /, from 1quiqui,
foundered in yesterdays gale eighty
miles off Spurnhead, Yorkshire. Twen-
ty-two persons were drowned, includ-
ing the captain and his wife. Eight
bodies were washed ashore at Worth
ing this morning. It is believed that
the British steamer Zande, last report
ed at Hamburg, November l, from
Safi, also was lost yesterday. Heavy
floods are reported on the island of
Cyprus. A dispatch from Liamsol
savS twanty-One DerSOnS were drown