| From the New Orleans True Delta |
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| December 29, 1861 |
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| Destructive Fire |
| The machine shop of the Tallahassee and
Pensacola & Georgia railroads, says the Tallahassee News of the
19th, was discovered to be on fire about half past nine o'clock
yesterday morning, having caught in the roof, from the smoke-stack.
Not having been prepared with buckets, &c., and there being no
persons, except the operatives, nearer than up-town, before the fire
could be arrested it consumed the entire machine shop, foundry
attached, and one of the large cotton sheds, together with nearly all
the tools and machinery in the machine shop and foundry, and one
locomotive (the Rutgers {Tallahassee RR}) which had been divested of its wheels for
repairs. The other locomotives were run out and saved. The loss must
be very great in amount of machinery, &c., and when we consider
that a great portion of it is of that character that cannot be
replaced at this time, the loss is hard to estimate. |
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