| From the Raleigh State Journal |
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| November 3, 1862 |
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| Destruction of Cotton and Freight Cars |
| On Friday morning, about a mile North of
Henderson Depot, a train loaded with cotton, on the Raleigh &
Gaston Railroad, caught fire and some 80 to 100 bales and three
freight cars were consumed. The mail train coming South found the cars
on fire and were detained one to two hours, the passengers assisting
in extinguishing the fire, and in moving the wreck and obstructions
from the road. And through the exertions of the passengers the train
was saved from considerable injury by the fire. |
| The accident will account for the failure
of the train to connect, Friday evening, with the train going South. |
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