Quincy, IL Depot Fire, Aug 1869
Posted October 26th, 2007 by June
Burning of a Valuable Freight Depot at Quincy, Ill.
Disastrous Fire in Quincy, Ill.--Railroad Depot and Freight Cars Burned--Loss over $100,000.
Chicago, Aug. 31.--The freight-house of the Burlington and Quincy Railroad at Quincy was destroyed by fire last night. The tracks on both sides of the freight-house were covered with freight cars, and about twenty of them were destroyed with their contents. Twenty other cars were more or less injured. A portion of the cars belonged to the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroad, but the large majority Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. The money and some of the valuable papers in the freight-house were secured, but the books and papers pertaining to the road from its organization were destroyed. The total loss will reach one hundred thousand dollars, the most of which will fall upon the railroad company, they being their own insurers.
The New York Times, New York, NY 1 Sept 1869
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