The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-06
PIONEERS ARE
NOT D|SMAYED
Rawhide Citizens Are Building
Their Town Anew on Site
of the Old One.
FIRE ONLY AN INCIDENT
WESTERN PEOPLE ACCUSTOMED
TO LITTLE sETBAcKs.

Rawhide, New. Sept. Like a phoe-
nix, Rawhide is rising from her ashes,
ana new life is stirring between the
nils surrounding this mining camp.
Workmen are busy clearing away de-
bris of yesterdays destructive fire to
make room for the new structures, the
material for which is already on the
way.
Reno's relief train arrived last night
at s;25. and twenty-five ore-hauling
teams OF the Western Ore company
transported the much-needed provisions
here
Help From Outside.
The Tonopah-Goldfeld special relief
train arrived at Nina at o'clock this
morning. and the eleven automobiles
whieh Were taken on fat cars on the
special Immediately started across the
desert and are now unloading food, bed
DING, etc., In Johnson's dance hall in
stingeree gulch, where line of hungry
men are patiently waiting their turn TO
be served by the relief committee.
Perfect order prevails. and everyone
Is helping the situation in all possible
ways. From all over the state supplies
are being sent 10 the stricken town by
railroad, automobiles and wagons, so
there Is very little chance OF a famine.
Poor Wire Connection.
Despite night and day work of tele-
graph operators and electricians, good
connections with Rawhide have been but
fitful. Very little intelligence has been
sent out today owing to this unsatis-
factory conditions. Many hundreds of
kilograms and thousands of words of
no 1s- a
details are given OF the fire, losses, etc
A great number OF these kilograms are
from anxious inquirers as to the safety
of friends
The Associated Press is able TO an
swer these thousands OF anxious ones in
regard TO the safety of their friends
There was not a fatality. nor serious
injury. except that of Frank Conahay,
the Western Union operator, we'll
known in Colorado as being the first
man that sent news OF the Cripple
Creek fire to the outside world in 1896
Conahoy is badly burned and will be
SCARED, but will recover.
Fire Chief Finn was badly shaken up
several times by being blown twenty or
thirty feet by conclusions of dynamite
Last night great vigilance was re-
quired 10 keep the flames from break
ing out anew. Fitful flashes lit up the
was little left for the fire to feed upon.
Thousands of people are attempting
10 reach Rawhide, and are stalled on
the desert and at the various junction
points, and unless they go well provis-
iCned will suffer actual physical want
Kindness Appreciated.
Howard w. Throckmorton, chairman
OF the relief committee, today request
ed the Associated Press 10 make public
the following notice to those who had
been so prompt In their aid to the
burned camp:
viii you kindly notify through your
papers that Rawhide wishes 10 thank
all who have furnished assistance, for
their prompt and generous aid, and that
no further supplies are needed"
The losses will not be as heavy as
stated in the first accounts. and It is
believed that the total will not be over
$3.50, 900 or $500, 900.
There was very little insurance car
ried, IL is said, because of the lack of
adequate water supply and high insur-
anca rates