| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| July 6, 1861 |
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| Fire |
| A Railroad Car and Contents Destroyed — Loss$1,000 |
| Yesterday foremost about half-past 9
o'clock, a freight car the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, at the
old depot in Edgefield, was discovered to be on fire, and as it
contained fifty barrels of turpentine, the whole was soon enveloped in
flames. The train consisted of fifteen to twenty cars, heavily loaded
with rice, tobacco, turpentine and other valuable products and it was
with the greatest difficulty cars, except the one in which the fire
originated, could be saved. At first the fire was supposed to be the
work of an incendiary, after careful investigation, the agent of the
road here is satisfied that it was accidental. He thinks it originated
from a spark from the locomotive of the
Edgefield & Kentucky Railroad, which passed a short time before
the fire was discovered. The loss is estimated at $1,000. |
| Nashville (Tenn.) Union July 3 |
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