The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-11-21
FOREST FIRES.
A Colorado Town Destroyed---Large Loss
Of Lives and Property.

A Colorado Town Destroyed---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 a fierce wind carried it over five
miles of dense timber in a 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, a short distance
from Gold Hill, were burned except
the stamp mill and that the fire had
reached the Western portion of Colo
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 .. 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,
citement prevails. 1t 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 tc
over 81, 500, 900. There will necessa.
rily be great destitution. Among the
business houses at Gold Hill are the
following: Frank Body, genera
merchandise and postoffice; DR.. Tro
william, 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.-At 3 O'Clock
fierce wind and dust storm strucl
the city from the North, filling the all
so that it was impossible to see acros
the street for a long time. Many plat
glass windows and awnings were de
stroyed. The temperature fell 20 de
grees in thirty minutes. Before thu
storm broke dense clouds of smoke
could be plainly seen rolling up the
| mountains around Gold Hill forty
miles distant. At 6 p. m. a wet snow
began falling but it is probably to-
late to save Gold Hill from destruc
ton.
LOSS OF LIFE LARGE.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Nov. 15.-Report
from the forest districts in this vicini
ty show that while the loss of proper
ty is not great, considering the exten
Of the territory covered, the loss o
life exceeds apprehensions. Within
fifteen miles of Memphis three live
have been lost by fire in the past twt
days, and there are rumors of a fear
full burning in Arkansas, where fiv'
lives were lost. The remains of fiv'
human beings were found, with tn
flesh and clothing all burned off, il
St. Francis bottom, all'within a quar-
ter of a mile of each other. There ar
fears that they are the remains of
party of hunters from Texas that wen
into that country last week, but ther'
is nothing to support this except tn
number of the bodies.
Fatalities in this county are pecu
liarly distressing. Fanny Woods, al
aged negress, had her dress ignited a
she fled from a burning house, and sh
ran, surrounded by flames till she fel
dead. Pitt Roy, a nine-year-old boy
ran into his fathers house, which wa
afre, to save some property. Tn
house collapsed and he was burned t.
death before many spectators. Th'
name of the third victim could not bt
| ascertained.
THE DESTRUCTION VERY GREAT.
LONDON, Nov. 15.-As a result O
the violent winds, heavy rains ant
overhowing rivers the inhabitants O.
some of the river side villas at Etol
and Windsor are obliged to approach
the doors of their houses in boats. Up
wards of thousand persons in Batf
are rendered homeless by the over
flowing of the Avon. Generally th'
rainfall continues, but the gales have
subsided.
LONDON. Nov. 15.-The British shil
Culmere, Captain Read, last reported
at Hamburg, October l, from 1quiqui
foundered in yesterdays gale eighty
miles off Spurnhead, Yorkshire. Twen
ty-two persons were drowned, includ
ing the captain and his wife. Eigh
bodies were washed ashore at Worth
ing this morning. It is believed tha
the British steamer Zande, last report
ed at Hamburg, November 1, from
Saffi, also was lost yesterday. Heavy
floods are reported on the island o:
Cyprus. A dispatch from Liamso
says twenty-one persons were drown
ed and that the number of domestic
animals destroyed is far into thous
ands.
A Curious Case.