The New York herald., 1865-05-07

Express Company were blown open BY gunpowder and
the contents taken. Passengers relieved Of their
watches and money The robbers escaped across the
river 10 skins.
Extensive Fire I'm Jersey City.
KRiE RAILWAY CAR MANUFACr0RY BURNED-LOss
ESTIMATED AT ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARs-wORKMEN THROWS OUT or
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. INCKNDIARIsN.
The Erie Railway manufactory In Jersey CITY,
situated near tho Bergen tunnel took Are a three
yesterday morning. and was entirely destroyed COM
prsedwo budings-one four hundred and nfy long
and eighty feet wde and the other three hundred
long and seventy 1ave feet wide-and embraced what
were known the car shop, where the wood work Of
the cars was finished, blacksmith shop, where the
ordinary iron work was done, and machine shop in
which tho running gear of the manufactured.
Five cars were standing in tho shop when the fire
broke out, and three Of them, unfinished burned
up while tho others seriously damaged; and the
entire property the buildings including the tools Of
about two hundred and nifty workmen, worth from atty
to four hundred dollars each, destroyed or rem
dered comparatively valueless.
The flames were first seen BY the engineer Of train
TINT was on the way to Jersey Cy ana the attention Of
the fact that II on fire by the alarm whistle Of the
engineer The machine shop was then ia flames on the
whole Of that part Of the building, and burst out the
roof The floor Of the shop saturated with grease or
oil used by the machnists This for the pid
ty with which the fire extended. singular fact Ia that
re is known have been in the machine shop for
about three weeks
All the buildings were Of wood, and as tho wind
blew briskly from the direction Of the machine
shop towards the and blacksmith shops, they
also were in flames in the course OF q few min
utos. The fire was very large one; IL burned With
great ferceness and the country for miles around
illuminated At the distance OF half mile tho light
equal TO that OF bright day. Before any effective
effort could be made to extngush the flames the build
ings had fallen
The stoppage Of the manufacture Of cars at this shop
which has produced many hundred and twenty
five month Of some kinds particularly Of coal cars)
and sixty OF all kinds the average for the past year
and half will be- perhaps, greatar loss to the
pany than the Of money involved N the nre There
other shops however and the Jersey City business
will be transferred to Piermont.
Tho loss to the mechanics in present employment and
particularly IN tools, cannot be accurately stated
It is estimated that tho tools cannot be replaced for
less than twenty Ave thousand dollars At least two
hundred of the had property worth the average
about hundred and nfty dollars each.
The loss OF the Erie Company, not far from one hun
dred thousand dollars is partly insured
The origin Of the fire not known It Is understood,
however, that the spark must have been communicated
by passing engine else that the IRE the work Of
incendary Several men have recently been discharged
from the mandatory, and they harbor the bitter
feelings against the agents OF the company by whom
their discharge was effected.