The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-05-17
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
New Albany ana Salem Railroad shops ut
New Albany insruins.

New Albany and Salem Railroad shops at
. New Albany insruins.
An Extra from the New Albany Tri-
bune brings us the following disastrous
accounts:
About one o'clock on Friday morning q
FIRE broke out in the machine shops of the
New Albany and Salem Railroad Company,
in this city, which spread with such fearful
thing contained therein, and in less thar an
hour the entire buildings, coverings square
of ground, were in ruins There were seven
locomotives in the round house at the time
and were all greatly damaged, probably to at
least half their value
The loss to the Company in buildings, 10
comotives, patterns, machinery, &C., can
not be less than Sl5o,0O0, and may reach
$3.50 900, with not dollar of insurance,
70 far as we could learn. fortunately, there
was very little work under way in the
shops, or the loss would have been much
greater.
Tho fire was evidently the work OF an in
cendiary. The engine which brought in the
one o'clock train, had just been Put in the
engine >use, when, as understand the
Waterman to say. the flames broke out in
several places at the same moment. This To-
comotiye was Immediately run out and con-
quently escaped injury.
This is the most destructive fire that has
ever occurred in our city, and one from which
we will not soon recover. 1t is most disas-
trous in its effects upon the company under
| their already great ADVERTISEMENTS. They
will probably not attempt to rebuild at pres
ent, but merely establish temporary shops here
for doing the necessary repairs required by
the cars and locomotives. At least one hun
dre1 and fifty men viii be thrown out of en-
| ployment by this disaster.
There are only two locomotives now a
this end of the road, but we learn that they
still have a sufficient number on the roac
| TO keep the regular trains moving, though
some disarrangement may occur for few
days.
The New Albany Ledger adds:
The machine shops were by far the mos
complete and extensive in the State, and VI
presume have few superiors in the West
Their destruction at this time, when so littl
work is going on in the other foundries anC
shops of the city, is public calamity. TIL
establishment was an honor to the city ant
the company.
The company have ut Bloomington, La
fayettc, and Michigan City shops for the re
pair of engines and machinery, and hav
twenty i've locomotives lett to operate Oh TIL
road.
HcIc VIII DS hO IilbCiihl'biOh III NHC ouSi
ness of the road, and speedy arrangements
through the energy and indomtable rerse
verance Of the officers of the company, wi
be made for the re erection of the building,
In the meantime temporary rel air shops wi
be erected as soon as possible. The hcaviC
portion of the repairing will be done At Mich
igan City, where there are splendid machin
shops and all the necessary machinery f.
rebuilding aud repairing the locomotives.
The only insurance was $4,000 j
the Etna at Hartford, Coan. There ca
be no estimate made of the loss to tn
city. by it $50 laboriDg men are throw
out of employment. on whom 500 or 60
citizens depend for support. The fir
burst simultaneously out Of buildings 20
feet apart, showing the disaster was tn
. work of incendiarism.