In the early hours of the morning, the largest cotton warehouse in Houston, Texas caught fire and was quickly completely destroyed. Lost were around twenty-one hundred bales of cotton along with sugar, molasses, and other items. Total costs were estimated at a massive $138,000 but no-one was injured. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Francis Vincent, Vincent's Semi-Annual United States Register.... 1st of January and 1st of July, 1860 (Philadelphia: Francis Vincent, 1860), 46.