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DALLAS, OREGON", SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1871.
NO 37
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11 HE AT rESIITEGO.
The sharp air of early October had
sent the people in from the church
services more promptly than usual,
although numbers delayed to speculate
on a great noise and ado which set in
ominously from the West. The house
wives looked tremblingly at the fires
and lights within, and the men took a
last look at the possibilities without
for many it was truly a last glimpse
The noise grew in volume, and came
Dearer and nearer and nearer with ter
rific crackling and detonations. The
forest rocked and tossed tumultuously ;
a dire alarm fell upon the imprisoned
village, for the swirling blasts came now
from every side. In one awful instant,
before expectation could give shape to
the horror, a great flame shot up in the
western heavens, and in countless fiery
tongues struck downward into the vil
lage, piercing every object that sfood
in the town like a red hot bolt. A
deafening roar, mingled with blasts of
electric flame filled the air, and paral-
ized every soul in the place. There was
too beginning to the work of rum ; the
flaming whirlwind swayed iu an ini'ant
through the town. There is no diver
sity in the general experience ; all
heard the first inexplicable roar j some
.. i t it
aver that the earth shook:, while a
credulous few avow that the heavuus
opened, and the fire rained down from
above. Moved by a common instinct
every habitation was deserted to the
flames, and the gasping multitude
flocked to the river. On the west the
mad horde saw the bridge in flames in a
score of places, and, turning sharply to
the left, with one accord, plunged into
the water. Three hundred people
wedged themselves in between the roll
ing booms, swayed to and fro by the
current, where they roasted, in the hot
fcreath of flame that hovered above
them, and singed the hair on each head
momentarily exposed above the water
Here, despairing men and women held
their children till the cold water came
as an ally to the flames, acd deprived
tnem ot strength,.
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Meantime tne eastern bank was
densely crowded by the dying and the
dead- Rushing to the river in this
direction, the swiriing blasts met them
full in the free, and mowed a swath
through the Sacir. throrj. Inbrlation
was annihilation. Sccr. All beforo
the fire blast. A few veto able to
crawl to the pebly Cats, but bo desper
ately disfigured t.:t death nrrst have
been preferable. All could not reach
the river ; even tLc groups that fell on
the grateful da nip Gate Buffered excru
ciating agony. Tfco teres blaze playing
in tremendous counter carreiita above
them on tfce higher ground, was su&ci
cntly 6trGG to est the clothes ala-se,
and tLe fiyln .and, heated ao by a
furnace, llictered the flesh wherever it
. fell. All that cowld break through the
stifling sixers had come to the river.
In the red glare they could aeo the
loping back covered with the bodies of
those who had fallen by the way. Jfew
living on the back streets could reach
the river, the hot breath of the fire cut
fag tbera down as they ran. Bat here
a new danger befel them.
The cattle,
terrified by the smoke and flame, rushed
in a great lowing drove to the river
brink. Women and children wen
trampled by the frightened brutes, and
many losing their hold on the friendly
logs, were swept under the waters.
This was the situation above the
bridge; below, a no less harrowing
thing happened. The burning timber
of the mill, built at the edge of the
bridge, blew and floated down upon the
multitude assembled near the flats, and
inflicted the most lamentable sufferings.
The men fought this new death bit
terly; those who were fortunate enough
to have coats, flung them oter tha head
of wives and childreu, and dipped water
with their hats on the improvised shel
ter. Scores had every hair burnt off in
the battle, and many lost their lives in
protecting others. The firemeu had
made an effort to save some of the
buildings, and the hose was run from
the river to some important edifice.
V-
The heat instantly stopped the attempt,
but not before the hose, swollen with
water, had been burned through iu a
hundred places. Although the on
slaught of fire and wind had beeu in
stantaneous, and the destruction almost
instantaneous, the fierce, stifling current
of intense heat careered through the
air for hours. These currents were
more fatal than the flames of the burn
ing village. Ignorant of the extent
the fire and the frijrhtful combination
of wind and flame, many of the com pa
ny's workmen, some with wives an 1
children, shut themselves up in the
grei.t brick building, aud perished in
the raiusr heat of the uext half hour.
Others on the remote street-! br ke fur
the clearing bevoud the wood, fmt few
ever passed the burning barrier. With
in the boundaries of the town and ac
cessible to the multitude the river ac
commodation was rather limited, ami
when the animals had crowded iu, the
situation was full of despair. The flats
wire covered with prune figures with
backs ablaze and faces pressed rigidly
into the cooling moit earth. The flame-'
played about and above all with au in
eessant and deai'euinr roar.
The tornado was but momentary, but
was succeeded by maelstroms of fire
smoke, cinders and red hot sand
Wherever a building seemed to resist
the fire, the roof would be sent whirl
ing in the air, breaking into clouds
flames as it fell. The showers of cin
tiers, sparks and hot sand fell in con
tinuous and prodigious force, and did as
much in killing the people as the first
terrific sirocco that succeeded the fire.
The wretched throng, neck deep in the
water, and the still more helpless being-;
stretched on the heated sands, were
pierced and blistered by these burning
particles. They seemed like lancets of
red hot steel, penetrating the thickest
covering. The evidence now remains
to attest the incredible force of the
slenderest pencils of darting flame.
Hard ironwood plow handles still re
main, perforated as though by minnie
balls, and for the main part unburnt.
When the hapless dwellers in remote
streets saw themselves cut off from the
river, groups broke in all directions in
a wild panic of flight and terror. A few
took refuge in a clear field bordering on
the town. Here, flat upon the ground,
with faces pressed iu the sand, the
helpless sufferers lay and roasted. But
few survived the dreadful agony. The
next day revealed a picture exceeding
in horror any battle field. Mothers
with children hugged closely lay in
rigid groups, the clothes burned off,
and the poor flesh scared to a crisp.
One mother, solicitous only for her
babe, embalms her unutterable love in
the terrible picture left on there woeful
sands. With her bare fiugcrc she had
scraped out a pit, as the soldiers did
before Petercburg, and pressing the
little one into this, she pat her own
body above it as a shield, and when the
daylight came, both vere dead the
little baby's face unscarred, but the
mother burnt almost to cinders.
r.JtbI to the Lelplcea, a stout
woodman carried out on' his shoulders
one ctaadly tick of fever. He burrowed
frrr the helpless body a sandy acpulcre,
and then hegaii the etn:gg!e for his own
life. Ha had lingered too long, and his
eacrcd body was fcaad near the refuge
of the man hits heroism had preserved.
The tornado played through the des
olated K'reets, and nwept the river aud
the low land adjoinine. The timber of
the mill floating down among the
people, made additional labor and dan
ger, and daylight broke terribly on the
saturated survivors before they dared
drag their cramped limbs from the icy
waters. The mingled crowd of men,
women, children, cows and gwine had
held this watery refuge sinco ten
o'clock of the night before. Of the
hundreds of human beings that entered
the water, not all escaped; the fright-,
encd cows trampled many uuder tho
waters; the blistering heat blinded
many who groped hopelessly about in
the curreut, and finally sunk. To this
day none can tell how great was the
slaughter iu the waters. After the
lurning heat of the night, a numbing
chill followed, and the water-soaked
group crawled over dead bodies ami" hot
sands to the only blazing building in all
the watc abofft them. d roups oi dead
odies were found within a stoue s
throw of the water. Families rushing
downward for breathing place had been
blown upon by the rushing blasts and
struck lifeless. The ghastly throng
huddled, shrieking aud bewailing, about
the flaring embers, and the terrible
roll of the missing was soon called from
end to ' end of the ashen waste. No
vestige of human habitation remained,
and the steaming, freezing, wretched
roup, crazed .by the unutterable terror
and despair, plead with each other
to restore the lout ones. Ihe hot blasts
of the night had blinded them, aud they
could but vaguely recognize one another
in the murky light of tho new day.
home, in the immeasurable anguish
of the moment, had da-shed themselves
against the sands and let out the life
with their own hands that the licking
flames coveted. Men, too distant from
the river to hope for rescue or safety,
had cut the throats of their choking
children, and were found in groups
sometimes un-carrcd by the flames. In
the streets, full twenty corpses were
found with no apparent injury or abra
sion. ratuouH tradesmen, iu the sudden
rush of flame, had thrown their valua
bles into wells for security ; every well
iu the city was turned into a flamiu
pit, and the very waters half evaporated
by the heat. Survivors att.a that
women and children, cut off from the
river, were put into wells and covered
with bedding. I have looked into every
veil in the ash covered clearing, aud
there h no possibility that a living thing
'uuld have endured the flames which
boiled aud seethed in them.
For hours the unreasoning search
was continued by the fuuiihed-dying
rerouants, but to tittle avail ; the dead,
when recognizable, lay where they had
fallen in the streets ; where the houses
had stood the ground was whipped as
clean as a carpet, aud all hope of identi
fying human ashes was idle. The next
night the long prayed for rain came,
gratefully to the living, and kindly to
i S t fi . 1 1 fill
the tieettng ashes ot the dead l he
greatest dread which hovered over
the bay cities and towns was allayed,
and the threatened danger nearly gone.
Before dark, help came to the perishing
suflercrs from the neighboring villages.
The wounded were taken by boat to
(Irecn Bay. whence some were forward
ed to Milwaukee.
There are 400 dead authentically ac
counted for ; there are beside half as
many missing who cannot be accounted
for, and probably never will be. Many
of the mill hands and company's em
ployees were utter strangers in the
place, and the majority of them, about
100, trusting to the stout walls o the
company s building, pensueu en masse.
y. v.
Tribune.
Wrong1 Itoads.
Many a man is on the wrong road
altogether with respect to Iin profession.
We have known an artist, w hose v oca
tion was a linen-draper, and more than
one tradesman with all hh head and
heart in art, a very bad bargainer, but
a good judge of colors, and a capital
hand in dressing out a window; a so
licitor, ground down to a desk, whose
native road laid along the geabcach,
and bet ween the storm and the flood ;
c clergyman, who would havo been more
at homeiu a carpenter's shop'than in the
pulpit j and an actress, wIioho beau
ideal of human life was a farm house
docn in the country, where sho might
feed her ducks aud chickens herself,
and fcuperintend tho dairy and the
baking
. Now all these people were on Atie Krau co
ng road in life consequently wf00 not wrought up m the Ore
x!d never cultivate their hedge U neo and too much of the Ore-
tho wron
they cqu
sido properly, but ereTorccd to be con
tent with pignuts and blackberries,; and
anything eU.e that came handy by the
grace of nature J never able to raise a
bushel of grain for Harvest time, or to
gather their owo apples for storage. If
they had been ou the right track for
each, they might have cultivated every
square foot of their portions and then
the world would have hadso much ad
ded harmony between character and
circumstance, aud bo much more faith
ful work heartily performed.
ii ... - o , i i j
;Russia has ifmued an order reorgan
izing her army, which in substance
enroU as soldiers all her adult male
population capable of bfirinj5 arms.
strawy bum
THE WOOL l'KADE.
Some tiino ago Donald McLennan.
tko Manager of tho San F raneisco
Mission Woolen Mills, and of the Pa
cific Knitting Factory, went to Aus
tralia to buy wool lor manufacturing
uses, and recent dispatches state that
he, and! others who went upon a sim
ilar mission, lately returned, after
having brought over a million dollars
worth of the article in that market.
This is a matter which must force
itself upon the consideration of wool
growers and manufacturers and dealers
in the staple in Oregon as well as Cali
fornia. It is of especial interest to
Oregon iu the particular case before
us, for we learn that of this great quan
tity of Australian wool now on the
way, fifty thousand pounds is destined
for the Oregon City Woolen Mills.
When we come to investigate the
subject, it seems more surprising than
on first view that wool can be imported
from so distant a port as Australia to a
new country like this Pacific Coast,
where sheep thrive m very well, and
where the wool is of nuch general good
quality, with advantage or profit to the
importers. In the first place, the duty
ou raw wool is excessive. The quality
of wool now on the way from Australia
his to pay a specific duty often ceuts
per pound, and also an ad valorem duty
of eleven per cent, on the value at the
place of export, aud iu addition to this
there are freight and other expenses.
Wool is now quoted at from twenty
eight to thirty cents per pound in this
market. Of course to import wool from
Australia here, the importer must have
in his favor such a buying price in that
market a will enable him to make a
profit over and above duties, freight,
aud Charges of every kind. He lUUt
. -, i . . i- .i !
likewise u-i as-u red nmt iin uuponcu t
wool is as g 1 as the homo product, or !
better, if iWible. To make an eti-
mate on thin ba-ii, we will compute the j
duty ou wool from Australia as say
twelve cents jr puuiid, and for freight
age and cxpeii of every kind y two
cents per omi J, or a total of fourteen
cent. Accept the lowest wul rjuota
tiou in the home market the safest
fur au estimate twenty ciht cents per
pound and from this deduct th'i tum
of duties and other charges on the im.
ported wool, and we have just, fourteen
cents per pound left as the highest
possible rate the importer could have
paid for it in the Australian market.
Hut these figures will give barely, if
any, margin for profit, to say nothing of
ri.-ks aud some other incidental matters
not computed in the estimate we have
just made. The likelihood is that the
parties who have made these large pur
chases of wool in Austrlia had first
ascertained that they could purchase
there at a figure so much below the
price here as to warrant them in all
they have undertaken in connection
with this operation. Wc hear from a
source entitled to credence that good
wool can be bought theie at from eight
to eleven cents per pound, and the
liner qualities at from ten to fifteen
cents per pound. At such prices it is
easy to discern that the importer in
either California or Oregon can buy in
Australia rather than at home, and re
alize quite handsomely by the transac
tion. The question with our wool
growers must therefore be, whether
they can or cannot compete with the
wool growers of Australia in price, as
well as the quality of the wool. It is
the question which they will have to
decide, aud the sootier the better.
We have it from a large dealer in
wool that one cause for the importa
tion of this wool from Australia is the
lack of wool sufliciently fine in the
home market. Our informant says that
the Oregon wool is becoming so graded
down into coarseness, that much of it
is unsuited to the manufacturing wants
of the State, and hence it has to be
culled rnd seut to the Atlantic mar
kets, where tho coprEest qualities arc
worked to a much batter advantage
thpo here. The grade kcoTrn as comb-
gon wool is of this grade. A finer wool
is here required, aud w the home mar
ket fails to furnish it, the factory own
ers have to send abroad for it, and the
Australian wool is the best and cheap
est for this purpose.
Whatever may be the causes for this
condition of things we shall not under
take to say whether it is true that our
wool growers cannot Buccceefully com
pete with the wool growers of Austra
lia, or whether that wool is better
suited to the requirements of oar fac
tories than tho Oregon wool. These
are questions, wo say, for the wool
growers of this State to determine for
themselves. It is important, however,
that they should give the matter their
earnest Utentioa. v VMin
PROFESSIONAL CARDS, kC.
J. 'Jfl. ISAljnLHOKE,
POltTJLAXI) .... OREGON.
General News Agent
For Oregon and Adjacent Terrrltorles.
Also SPECIAL COLLECTOR of all kinds
of CLAIMS.
AGENT for the Dallas Republican.
JOll.V .1. DAJ.Y,
AU'yV Coiiiiseller-at-ffaw,
W il 1 practice in the Courts of Record and In
feiior Courts. Collections attended to promptly.
Office in Dr. J. E. Davidson's Building,
MAIN WTKUliT, lNDCl'KNDlSNCIi.
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J. C. GRUBBS, M. Dm
PHYSICIAN AXI SUHtJROX,
Offers Lis Services to the Citizens of Dallas
aud Vicinity.
O'iVC'Z. at NICHOLS' Drug Store.
31 tf
S . li. JLI TItII, M. !.,
IMiyhiciau ami Surgeon.
Kola, Oregon.
Special attention given to Obstetric and
Distaci of Women. ltf
Attorney & Counsellor-At-Law,
Dallas, Oregon,
Will practice in all the Courts of the State. 1
J. Si. OI,M.,
Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law.
Dallas, Orcgou.
Special attention given to Collections and to
matter pertaining to Real hetate. 1
RUSSEL FERRY & WOODWARD.
Itcal folate Aleuts
and Real E tate Auctioneers,
So. ICKI. FKOXT WTKKirr,
POfllXAKU ----- OHIICON.
JT. A. UPLK1TK,
AtTyfc Counsellor n! Law,
OFFICK IN COURT HOUSE,
DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, C2EG0N.
2iMf
Ml DOOR iD
BLIND FACTORY,
MAIN MTHKI2T, DALLAS.
1 have constantly on hand and for Sale
WI.D)W KAMI, ;iazcil
and I ngjazrd.
POOliS OF ALL SIZKS?.
WINDOW ANI noon 1'RAMF-,
All of the I.cst Material and Manufacture.
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JAM ICS M. CAMP T. ELL.
Dr. IIAIti,KS WSi,M:V,
saiji.u. - - - oki;c;ox.
All who require Surgical Operations on the
Eyes, or treatment, are invited to give biui a
trial.
Thou who Jo not receive permanent benefit
will not be required to ptiy for treatment.
He is amply provided with all the modern
nml improved Instruments, and will make
thorough Examinations free ot charge.
NEW rAIiVT SHOP,
Carriage, Wagon, Sign,
ORNAMENTAL PAINTING,
GRAINING & GLAZING,
PAPER HANOINO, &c,
Done ia the most Workmanlike manner by
XI. P. glfKIVEK.
Shop upatairt over llobart A Co'i Harness
Shop.
DALLAS, POLK CO., OREGON.
FRArtK A. COOK,
BOOKBINDER,
AND
Blank Book Manufacturer,
SALKM, OKI2GOW,
jspgmm Hvk estaLlihed a First Class
ljJf Bookbindery in Salem, is now
r-tfTVyy prepared io uo an manner oi
work known to the trade.
Magazines, Kewspapen and Music Bound
in any desird Style.
011 Hooks Be-Sound.
ELAHK BOOKS of every description, with
or without Printed Headings, Manufactured to
Order.
BLAHITJ of every kind Ruled and Printed
to Order.
PEICES EXiSOUABLS.
Ia Gri wo ttlook. jtMt
PROFESSIONAL CARDS, AC.
DALLAS HOTEL,
COltXKK MAIN AND COURT STS.
Dallas, Folk County Oregon.
The undersigned, having HE-FITTED the
aWe HOTEL, now informs tho Public that
be is prepared to Accommodate all who may
favor hinj with a call, in a good style as can
he found in any Hotel in the Country. Oit
me a call, and you shall not leave disappoiated.
12-tf W. F. KENNEDY, Propmttr.
Sad dl ery
Harness.
i
S. C. SHIES,
Main St. (opposite the Cour House), Dallas, t
MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN
Harness, Saddles, Bridles, Whips, Collars,
Check Lines, etc., etc., of all kinds, which he is
prepared to sell at the lowest living rates.
3r-ItEPAIUING done on short notice.
$73 EVERV WEEfU
MADE EASY,
LADY AGENTS.
Ve want Smart and Energetic Agents to
introduce our popular and justly celebrated
inventions, in every Villu'in, Tvwn and City im .
the Wurld.
Indispensable to every Household f
They are highly approved of, endorsed and
adopted by Lud.'ct, 'yi. im and Dirinet,
and are now a (i HEAT. FAVOKITK with,
them.
Every Family will Purchase On
or more of them. Something that their merits'
are apparent at a GLANCE.
DRUGGISTS, MILLIKEES, DESSMAXS
and all who keep FANCY STORES, will find
our excelled articles SELL YEH Y IiAPID
L Y, gives perfect satisfaction and netting
SMALL FORTUNES
to all Dealers and Agents.
COUNTY HI GUTS FREE
to all who drjire engaging in an Hvmornblt,
rytretnhte end I'vJiobU J!uiuct, at the time
time doing good to their companions in life.
Sample $2 00, sent free br mail on receipt of
price. SEND FOR WHOLESALE CIRCU
LAR. ADDRESS,
VICTOEIA MAHUFACTURIHG COHPY,
IT, PARK PLACE, New York.
NEW PICTURE GALLERY.
J. II. KINCAID has opened a
Now Photographic . Gallery
In Dallas, where he will be pleased to wait on
Customers in his line of Business at all hours
of the daj.
Children's Pictures
Taken without grumbling, at the same price as
Adults. Satisfaction guaranteed. Frice to
fuit the tiniest.
Room at Lafollott's Old Stand, Main Street,
Dallas, PoIk.County, Oregon, April 27th, 1371
8-U
C. S. ILVE IS,
No. 13, First Street,
PORTLAND, - - - - OREGON,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
DRV GOODS, I'LOTIIIXG,
LADIES' DKESS GOODS,
BOOTH AM) SIIOF.S, I1ATS Sc CAPS,
GIWCFRFSd- PROVISIONS,
Highest Cash Frice paid for all kinds of
Country iiocliiee.
; ie-m
Kay Carpet Weaving.
A LL
LL PERSONS HAVING MATERIAL
tor Rag Carpets, and wishing them
Woven, can be accommodated by calling on
the undersigned. Orders left at the Store of
R. Howe Bros, will be promptly attended to.
l6-3m WM. SAl'LSBERRY.
C. K. PARMENTKR.
I
T. J. BIBCOCK.
PARMENTER & BABCOCiC,
Manufacturers, aud Wholesale and Re
tail Dealers iu ? v. i
Iwrnitiir,ef
Commercial Street, Salem, Oregon,
HAVE ON HAND THE LARGEST
Stock of
Furniture
Heddiii,
Window-Shades, !
Hollands, and
PA PEB-H AIGIIS3
To be found in Marion County.
All kinds of Ticturo Frames, Coffins and
Caaketa made to order on abort notfce and at
reasonable rates.
PARMENTER BABCOCK.
Salem, March 23, 1870. 4- tf
Bargain ! Bargains ! V
HAVING PURCHASED AN ENTIRE
New Stock of doods, I would call tha
attention of the Public to my Old Stand at Utt
Brick Store. I have a full stock of
Groceries, Dry Goods, Hoots and Shoes,
and everything found ia a sraUciass Variety
Store. My old eu.tomra will tnd it to their
advantage to renew their patronage, and ntw
ones ail b cordially welcomed.
All kinds of Produce taicq at the bigstS
mars at rates. "
JgfPJL
W. C. SHOW
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