NP, NYT 7/1/1861

From the New York Times
 
July 1, 1861
 
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
 

   An officer of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad states that their loss will reach two millions of dollars. In addition to the locomotives reported destroyed at Martinsburgh, there were three hundred and sixty freight cars and five passenger cars. The engines prove to be so sprung, from the intense heat of the fire built around them, that they are now worthless. It will cost as much to rebuild them as it will to buy new ones, and the old ones will never be safe.

 
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