NP, TD 7/9/1861

From the New Orleans True Delta
 
July 9, 1861
 
Railroad Train on Fire
   A freight car on the Louisville & Nashville railroad was discovered to be on fire on Tuesday morning, near the depot at Edgefield, and as it contained fifty barrels of turpentine, and the train of which it formed a part consisted of fifteen or twenty cars, heavily ladened with turpentine and produce, much difficulty was experienced to extinguish the flames. The fire was accidental and the loss about $1000.

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