Teller & Van Deren Block blown Down – The New York store Crushed and its Inmates Buried in the Ruins – The Cry of Fire at Midnight – Rushing of the Winds and the People – Digging out the Victims – Chief Engineer Bush on his Mettle Scenes, Incidents, Etc.
(From the Daily Central City Register, Central City, Colorado, Tuesday Evening, December 8, 1874)
Soon after sundown last evening, a high and strong wind arose, and its voice was like the rushing of many waters. What was at the beginning scarcely more than what mariners would call a “stiff breeze,” toward midnight became a tremendous hurricane and from that time on till daylight blew “great guns,” causing our firmest stone and brick buildings to tremble and shiver in every timber, and the weaker ones to rock like cradles.
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