p. 80 | Reno in Ashes

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1879

Reno in Ashes.

THE city of Reno, Nevada, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on Sunday morning, March 2. The fire commenced a little before six o'clock, and in the space of about four hours 350 buildings were consumed. The wind was blowing a gale, and the fire spread with such rapidity that many escaped without sufficient clothing to protect them from the severity of the weather, while a number perished in the flames. The report says,—“Fireproof houses, both of stone and brick, burned like pasteboard.” In fact, there are no fireproof houses which can withstand the fierceness of a fire in a heavy gale.

Only one hotel was left. All the railroad buildings, freight, cars on the track, including “a lightning train,” and almost every place of business, were destroyed. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000.

Relief is being sent to Reno for the many homeless sufferers.