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1875 Virginia City Fire Documents (113190)

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1875 Virginia City Fire Documents  (113190)
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Lot of 3. 1) Cover with contents sent to the Amity Lodge, F&AM, in Silver City from Carson City, Nov. 10, 1875. Typed letter on Grand Lodge F&AM of Nevada letterhead. "During the late conflagration at Virginia the offices of the Grand Treasurer and Grand Secretary, together with their Books, Papers, Library, and, in fact, everything belonging to or connected with MW Grand Lodge was entirely destroyed...I have consented to and hereby postpone the Annual Grand Communication of the MW Grand Lodge...until the first Tuesday in June AD 1876." Signed by Grand Master RW Baller and Grand Secretary SW Chubbuck. 2) Grand Lodge F&AM printed letterhead, Virginia, Oct. 1st, 1876. List of Rejections, Expulsions, Restorations, etc. From SW Chubbuck. The Great Fire of October 26th, 1875 is described in the OCt. 28th Sacramento Daily Union: "A fate long feared by all has befallen Virginia. She has met the fire fiend and become its victim...The fire began in a small lodging-house kept by Kate Shay, alias Crazy Kate, a woman of ill repute...caught from a candle left burning, such being her habit. The house in a few minutes was in a blaze. Engine No. 4 and Babcock's wheeled extinguisher were soon on hand, but were of no avail. A furious wind was blowing directly down Mount Davidson, from the southwest, and the flames spread under its influence with fearful rapidity... The wind increased, became fitful, and the fire spread in all directions, till a space equal to one block was on fire, the flames licking the very clouds, and roaring with a ferocity indescribable. Their awful tongues seized on brick, iron, stone, and lapped them up like straw, the firmest walls melting like wax before the intense heat..."

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Country (if not USA):
State: Nevada
City/County: Virginia City
Date: 1875-76