| Show by teleo telegraph t tl raph AMERICAN AMERICAN SAN FRANCISCO 27 the tho following is additional to tile the calls special from virginia at present it is impossible to state tile the loss of life lire two men were killed on 0 street by a failing falling wall there are numberless remains ren ron idlas of other casualties hundreds of families are homeless and hungry schoolhouses school houses the only buildings left are open to them but if immediate M relief is not extended great suffering will wili ensue utter demoralization reigns in the city men 1 women and children wander about the desolated streets seeking shelter the surrounding hills are dotted with camp fires bres few saloons remain but supplies of liquor have not nt been lacking and the streets are alive with a drunken mob the military are patrolling pat roling the city for the protection of pro erty SAN FRANCISCO 27 the feeling on the street this morning is better belter than yesterday and there is less disposition to magnify the disaster contradictory reports are still floating about concerning the fire lire in the ophir shaft some professing to believe that the damage is known by insiders to be much greater than admitted the most authentic information however la Is that the shaft has suffered no material injury it is reported on or ap pa antly good authority that the new hoisting works of the lady washington mine which are simi lar in power and pattern to those of the consolidated virginia will be set up on the latter mine without delay works are now on the lady washington grounds but are not yet in position and can be made available on the consolidated virginia in avery short time well weil wellin informed parties state confidentially that the consolidated virginia will pay a five dollars dividend for two or three months until it is under full headway again no definite advices advises have been received yet as to the extent of the damage to the several mining properties involved the total loss by the fire is now placed at from to four millions the paci pacific be stock exchange have started a subscription for the virginia sufferers and expect to raise four or five thousand dollars there wag was a meeting tonight to night at the palace hotel among those present were senators sharon and jone jones mayor otis E J baldwin james B R keene J C G flood W T coleman W F babcock and other prominent citizens A committee was appointed which will meet tomorrow morning to concert mes med measures of relief it is now stated that the tho insurance on the virginia prope property arti has been greatly underestimated and that the total losses of the companies cannot fall much short of two millions it is feared one or two local companies will go under sacramento santa cruz and los lios angeles have forwarded money and aud supplies to some extent for the relief of the virginia sufferers the california theatre will give a benefit for the sufferers on saturday evening A special to the call from vir viru i ginia this evening says that the gould curry miners full of gas from the injured mines men can not go dowland dow nand work is stopped in the mine thirty feet of the consolidated soli dated virginia shaft timbers are burned mackay of the firm of flood obrien says that no ore will be hoisted from the damaged mines before next spring that this throws throda twenty five hundred miners out of employment that five thousand people will viii leave here and all that is now needed ia is money to transport them A special dispatch to the call this evening from virginia says that the best businessmen business men estimate the loss at seven million five hundred thousand one third iii in foreign companies the rest in local companies A large number of women and children have been sent to carson gold hill reno beno and california tody to dy dav there has been a light wind and showery weather threatening hundreds are in the rulus searching for articles of value safes are being pulled out of the vaults and open the vault va uit of the bank nank of california is all right only a few papers belag lost carson has sent cold provisions for two thousand five live hundred and they are being dealt out at the first ward schoolhouse reno beno gold Hi hilland fland other towns are sending food and clothing there are fully people without food beds roofs or money and of these fully are without the necessary cesary ne cloth clothes and should should harsh weather soon set in much suffering must ensue the three injured mines cannot the employees esy eay get buildings and machinery under sixty days but rebuilding will go on all over the city and this will give labor to hunti hundreds reds in clearing ruins ac the people are in good spirits and while teril terii tenably bly afflicted they are the pluckiest pluck iest lest bravest lot I 1 eyer ever had to do with hundreds are too proud to say ay they need seed help and ladies go out and find women and children needing food but ashamed to beg it this feeling is relaxing however under the kind offices of the relief committee which is already partly organized some shanties are already being put lip and workmen are busy shutting off broken evater water and gas pipes and getting the worst debris out of the streets some streets are aro utterly impassable choked up with ruins the ferocity of df the nime fire ia is seen I 1 in twisted and warped iron work and heavy walls drawn out of shape dangerous walls are being blown up every few minutes and others are being pushed over the streets and open lots present alcene a scene seene of in leeon lecon fusion lumbered up with broken furniture damaged goods and aud broken machinery the machinery of the hoisting works bur burned nedis is believed to be badly damaged but not utterly ruined the water in the consolidated virginia is being pumped off through the gould curry gurry and other mines but the pumping facilities are thus thiis far inadequate last night the air shaft of the andes mine mihe was on fire and aud sent up a column of flames feet in jn height it is believed that it will burn out the shaft and go no further communication being pretty well cut off below th this is mine is on the south of the region of gire fire and above it dispatches received to k further details of the virginia conflagration fla gration confirm tho previous reports as to the thi extent of the calamity the seene scene during the progress of the fire la Is beyond description the wind blew a gale driving cinders and flames far fsr farin narin in advance of the burning bunning buildings and rendering all attempts to check cheek the progress of the fire futile giant powder was freely used to blow up the buildings and frequent heavy explosions plo shook the earth the roof of the catholic church was blown a hundred feet into the air leaving the bare walls standing by eight am the excitement was at its height the streets weme were filled with people teamsters were struggling through the fire fighting at presentable points women shrieking their cries of despair the tho curses of enraged men the roar of the flames the dull reports of explosions as building after building took fire the heavy thud and crash of falling walis walla the snap of burst ing iron bars aud and doors the howl of the gale all went to make up a scene of indescribable horror by ten am the consolidated virginia hoisting works building and mill were wrapped in flames and soon fell the new california stamp mill then fell a prey to the fire which swept to within a few rods of the C 0 hoisting works when the veering of the wind turned the flames and carried them to the ophir works which soon fell in the shaft timbers caught fire but were extinguished without doing much damage by eleven am the flames had spent their fury and the wind died away leaving a bed of amoul dering ruins three quarters of a mile milb lonc jong and half a mile wide the lost josf this evening publishes an account of an interview with mr Mood flood of the firm of flood obrien flood stated that the work of repairing the damages to tild the works and mills of the consol consolidated dated d Virg virginia inia lula and california mines would be pushed to completion with the utmost dispatch that the gould and curry shaft and works would be of no use to them and that the production of the mine must cease cesse till the old works could be repair repaired edor or new ones ob tal tai gained nied fied flood was disincline dis inclined ed to express an opinion as to the length of time it would tak take to get them in working order a iu but intimated something ovir 0 vr sixty days saying it would be foolish to hold out hopes of too early resumption le flood stated that an offer had been rec received elved from the lady washington company of their new now hoisting t works just completed at the union found foundry rv these works which are re a duplicate in many respects tf of those de dec troed troyed would be pure purchased bared based if it they could be made available all that could be learned with deti niti veness about the whole matter was that the most feasible plan of proceeding that suggested itself would bo be followed whether of buying agnew new works or repairing the old he did not know to what extent the old works were injured but it could be assumed with certain certainty tys tyl that the bed plates and other of the more solid parts of the machinery are sound and uninjured but even if the least supposable damage were dono done it would bo be folly to expect that the necessary repairs could be made inside of thirty days or even a considerable longer period speak ing of the consolidated virginia battery and pan mills etc etc he ald aid said the battery mil would be also repaired as soon as possible the entire 0 C mill cost about but the pan portion of it was intact the consolidated virginia mill was aisa alsa very expensive and complete the biffl difficulty about ore production however does not lie jn in the failure of milling facilities for until new now establishments were erected recourse could be had to the brunswick and morgan mills which are equal in capacity to the one burned besides there were several other small email mills which could be called int into requisition As regards the ophir mine and works dispatches received today to day show that the shaft is allright albright all nil night right and that the boilers hollers and the machinery are available A special dispatch to the stock exchange from virginia city today says that thu vault of the bank of california was blown open this morning and the treas ure removed to the gold hill a agency tc ney ncy several deaths have occurred from exposure excitement and typhoid fever combined NEW YORK 27 the brooklyn n eagle says it is the opinion lon ion of lawyers generally that the motion to quash the indictment in the Loader case will be denied or that the de do will be overruled and in that case loader will bo be tried it is believed that the principal witness for the prosecution will be mrs tilton and that most of the distinguished witnesses in the great scandal trial will figure in the col lateral issue this morning beach and fullerton counsel for the plain plaintiff tint tift in the scandal suit were closeted for some time with the district attorney there was much speculating as to what this portended some thought that it foreshadowed shadowed fore an at attempt on moul tons part to ib secure an indictment of beecher others were of the opinion that the two great counselors had been retained to defend loader jno dolant dolan indicted for the mur berof jas H noe was this evening convicted in the court of oyer terminer and sentenced to by be hanged on dec 10 BOSTON 27 A quantity of nitroglycerine was explored last night under the window of the harvard college building and several hundred panes of glass were shattered it was a narrow escape from more serious damage some of the students it is said were the perpetrators washington 27 advises advices from london loridon deny the story of love and assassination in which the king of bf spain and the duhe dake de sexto are represented as the principal actors one version speaking of the wife and daughter of a spanish colonel shows its falsity from the fact that the colonel mentioned is well known in new york where lie he re sided a long time and married an american lady who has no daughter and the gentleman instead of being assassinated assassinated is i s alve and in co comfortable circumstances the president today to day issued his proclamation designating the fth day of Novem november beras as a day of thanksgiving and prayer throughout the u s in the supreme court toda today to da day Y the govern government merit appeal from the decision orthe odthe appeals in the union pacific railroad ball Hail road case came up for argument the substantial question presented by this case the true construction of the act of 1862 1962 incorporating the union pacific company as added to by the act of 1864 the U S whenever it pays payo interest upon bond bonds issued to aid in the construe tion of the road is entitled to enforce the tile immediate payment thereof from the coin eoin company parly by suit or otherwise or whether such reinland reimbursement can be obtain obtained only by the application of one ono half the compensation due the company for services rendered to the government and five per cent of the net earnings of the r road ead oad after its completion the agricultural returns for october show that the wheat crop of the present year isa is a short abort one and that there is a marked deterioration in the quality the average thus far reported is about eighty per cent gent of last years yearns production if this indicates the total depreciation it amounts to bushels and gives a cro bof bushels in quality the crop averages fourteen per cent below a sound condition the condition of corn is exceptionally high the product reported this year falls short of 1874 about four per cent the oat pro bupt is nive five pec per cent greater than last years yearb the total crep crop promises to be extraordinary both in yield and quality tobacco is two per cent above the average barley eighty seven per cent of last years yearns crop and buckwheat not far from the average or linderman dit director actor of the mint estimates that by they thu virginia city fire the supply lyof of rold vold oid old bullion will be cut off to the extent of one million per month for four months and the supply of silver bullion one and a half millions per month for time Ks 27 the hody of a young and beautiful woman aged about 25 years was found in tho the river today to day the corpse was richly dressed I 1 wearing a purple silk dress and a neat breast pin andean and ear rings in the pocket was found a pocket book with also a card case with earda carda bearing the name of M mcblackwell MB lackwell a check for baggage to hand a pass from chicago to kansas city MOLLY nolby SPRINGS mis 27 17 A severe earthquake accompanied wilh a loud rumbling felt feit here at half past seven this evening no damage BT ST LOUIS 27 this evening D R fogg a young man about 21 years old an advertising agent for for tor the chronicle called at arna atra mans no street to see her daughter paulina and after a few moments conversation with twe the latter he shot her with a derringer the tho ball en entering tho the left lert breast three inches below the nipple nippie but striking a rb it glanced round and inflicted only emere emero evere flesh wound fogg then drew a short ashert dagger and stabbed himself twice in the breast two inches below the nipple and once in the left side under the arm causing wounds which will no doubt prove fatal it appears that fogg was engaged to the girl but shibel she being ng only sixteen years of age her mother opposed the match and had forbid him the house this seemed mohave to have affected the young mans mind 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