NP, TD 12/29A/1861

From the New Orleans True Delta
 
December 29, 1861
 
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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