| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| November 15, 1864 |
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| Destructive fire |
| Between three and four o'clockyesterday
morning, a fire broke out in one of the cars in a shed at the
Manchester depot of the {Richmond &} Danville railroad, which extended with great,
and resulted in the total destruction of ten passenger and box-cars,
the large shed under which they had been run, and a framed building
near by, used for stowing away lumber, &c. The cause of the
conflagration has not exactly been ascertained, though it is supposed
to have resulted from an accidental failure to extinguish the fire
which had been built by some soldiers, to keep themselves warm, on the
floor of a car attached to a train which
had reached the depot and been run into the shed about an hour before. |
| The cost before the war of the property
destroyed has been estimated at twenty thousand dollars; but, of
course, at the present time it will far exceed that sum. A liberal
insurance is held by the company. |
| It is but just, in connection with this
fire, to state that, by the timely arrival of a detachment of the fire
department of Richmond, who carried over with them a hand engine and real, a great deal of
other valuable property belonging to the railroad company was
preserved. Only twenty firemen, in conformity with the regulations of
the department, were permitted to accompany the apparatus which went
over there. |
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