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. |