| From the Daily Intelligencer
(Wheeling, Va.) |
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| July 1, 1861 |
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| Actual Loss of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad over $2,000,000 |
| An officer of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad the Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia
Inquirer, that their loss will reach two millions of dollars. In
addition to the locomotives reported destroyed, at Martinsburg, there
were three hundred and sixty freight cars and five passenger cars.
The engines prove to be so sprung, from the intense heat of the fire
built around them, that they are now worthless. It will cost as much to
rebuild them as it will to buy new ones, and the old ones will never be
safe. |
| Such wanton destruction of
property is as villainous almost as the crime of murder, and should be
so treated. This is the pay the Railroad Company receives for promptly
refusing to carry the Federal troops at the request of Virginia and
Maryland, and when an attempt is being made to open the road at the
point of the bayonet by Federal troops, the rebels burn and destroy
everything they can. This is their only ability. They cannot build up
anything. Northern men built up the Government they seek to destroy.
Northern men found the means and the brains to build their
railroads and canals, and now the traitors cut and slash away with the
consciousness that the loss is not theirs. |
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