History of Reno, Nevada, USA

Reno, Nev. - A fire broke out at Reno last Sunday morning, and in three hours all the business part of the town was in ashes, the only houses escaping being the Masonic building with Hagerman & Schooling's grocery store on the first floor, and John Larcombes.

Two or three Central Pacific trains, including the lightning train, were destroyed.

The loss is estimated at $1,000,000 with about $150,000 insurance.

Five persons lost their lives:
MRS. JOHN PECK.
JOHN RILEY.
Three unknown tramps.

This morning about 1 o'clock a fire broke out in or near the tea store of Rother Bros., near the corner of Second and Sierra streets, and in the rear of the Gazette office.

Dick Nash was the first to turn in a general alarm, and the fire department was soon on the ground. But before water was gotten on the fire the Nevada Tea Store and the Blue Wing Saloon were in flames, and the heat was intense. Being only the lightest kind of wooden shanties it was not long before the inflammable material was one flaming mass, and the building owned Manning & O'Connor and occupied by N. P. Jaques as a hardware and plumbing establishment, on the west side, and the Baptist Church on the east side were in flames, while to the north the fire was lapping up the little wooden outbuildings, wood piles, fences and rubbish. It was not many minutes after the corner building was well under destruction before the two houses of John Smith on Sierra street were on fire. On the extreme eastern side people were ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Jan. 30. The following despatch was received from Truckee this morning:

Cascade Cut was opened yesterday morning by five hundred snow shovellers, raising the blockade from tunnel 13, westward. A wooden plough with seven engines started west from Truckee at nine o'clock, carrying sixty snow shovellers to removed the slide between here and Tunnel 13. it met with almost unsumountable difficulties on account of frozen slush. It is now less than four miles from town and has three miles farther to go before the road is clear. It is storming fearfully all along the line, drifting and blowing everywhere. Superintendent White went to Reno this afternoon. The snow is drifting badly down Truckee canon, but no trouble is anticipated. A snowslide occurred last evening east of Verdi, three feet deep and 600 feet wide.

Reno, a post-village, capital of Washoe co, Nevada, on the Truckee River and on the Central Pacific Railroad, 149 miles N.E. of Sacramento, Cal., about 20 miles direct of 51 miles by rail N.W. of Virginia City, and 3 mile E, of the Sierra Nevada. It has 2 banks, 5 churches, a female seminary, printing-offices which issue 2 daily newspapers, a powder-mill, manufactories of carriages, wagons, and brooms, and the large mill and reduction-works of the Nevada Land and Mining Company. The state prison is located here. The Truckee is a rapid river and affords extensive motive-power at this place. Reno is the N. terminus of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, and is the distributing point for a large section of country. Pop. 1302.

Reno, Nev, May 21.-The east-bound flyer on the Southern Pacific jumped the frog at Chestnut street crossing in this city. The engine and the baggage and mail cars were derailed. The engine ploughed into the ground, the drivers being covered, and is badly wrecked. Fireman Walker jumped as the engine careened over, badly spraining his ankle and wrist. Mrs. J. G. Putnum, a passenger, was injured about the head and back.

Reno, a banking post-town, capital of Washoe co., Nev., on the Truckee River and on the Southern Pacific and other railroads, 149 miles NE. of Sacramento, Cal., about 20 miles (direct) NW. of Virginia City, and 3 miles E. of the Sierra Nevada. It has large reduction-works, manufactories of machinery, brick, malted liquors, etc., and is the seat of the state university and the state asylum. Elevation, 4500 feet. Pop. in 1900, 4500.