Fire burns a cotton press and two thousand bales of cotton in New Orleans

 At the Orleans Press Yard in New Orleans a destructive fire burned a machine shed and its press along with two thousand bales of cotton.  Total damages rose to the region of $200,000.  (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), 527. 
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Crime/Disasters
New Orleans, LA
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