| From the Houston Telegraph |
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| July 17, 1861 |
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| Destruction of Rolling Stock |
| The Baltimore Exchange of June
25th, says: |
| We learn from the agent of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, at Martinsburg, who left that place
yesterday morning, that the work of vandalism on the part of the
Confederate army, in the wanton destruction of the property of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, of the State of Maryland, was resumed
at Martinsburg on Sunday. All the cars and locomotives that they could
not carry away from Harper's Ferry were destroyed, and now we have
tidings of the destruction of the locomotives and cars at Martinsburg. |
| Our informant states that the
work of destruction was accomplished in the most effectual manner, by
piling immense quantities of cord wood over and around the locomotives
and firing it. A number of gondola cars and coal hoppers were also
similarly destroyed. The entire value of the property thus given to
the flames cannot be less than $400,000. |
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