New York Herald, “Conflagration in the Pike’s Peak Goldmines,” July 17, 1859

Source citation
“Conflagration in the Pike’s Peak Goldmines — Lives Lost,” New York Herald, July 17, 1859, p. 5: 3.
Newspaper: Publication
New York Herald
Newspaper: Headline
Conflagration in the Pike’s Peak Goldmines — Lives Lost
Newspaper: Page(s)
5
Newspaper: Column
3
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Don Sailer, Dickinson College
Transcription date
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

CONFLAGRATION IN THE PIKE’S PEAK GOLDMINES — LIVES LOST. – We learn from the Leavenworth Times that one of the coaches of the Pike’s Peak Express Company arrived there bringing dates to the 23 ult. An immense conflagration commenced raging in the mountain [pineries?] on the 20th ult. It originated on the dividing ridge between the Gregory and Jackson diggings, and soon had turned hundred and thousands of acres of pine land into an ocean of fire, that swept away everything towards the snow range. A violent wind that prevailed for a few days increased the vehemence of the destructive element. At Denver City the existence of the fire was first announced by the dense volumes of smoke that filled the atmosphere from the mountains to Cherry Creek. Many prospecting parties had been cut off from escape and devoured by the devastating flames. Suffocated and cindered bodies had already been discovered. A party of fifteen persons are known to have perished by the flames.

Gold Rush
Denver, CO
Pikes Peak, CO
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