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The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Serious accident. (search)
Fire --A Railroad Car and Contents Destroyed — Loss $1,000--Yesterday foremost about half-past 9 o'clock, a freight car the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the old depot in Edgefield, was discovered be on fire, and as it contained fifty barrels of turpentine, the whole was soon enveloped in flames. The train consisted of fifteen twenty cars, heavily loaded with rice, tobacco, turpentine and other valuable products and it was with the greatest difficulty cars, except the one in which the fire originated, could be saved. At first the fire was supposed to be the work of an incendiary, after careful investigation, the agent of the road here is satisfied that it was accidental. He thinks it originated from a spark from the locomotive of the Edgefield and Kentucky Railroad, which passed a short time before the fire was discovered. The loss is estimated at $1,000.--Nashville (Tenn.) Union July 3.