From the Richmond Sentinel, 11/15/1864, p. 1, c. 3

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION. - About 5 o'clock yesterday morning, the car shed of the Danville railroad company, in Manchester, was set on fire by an incendiary, and destroyed, with ten railroad cars, which were burned in it at the time. The loss is estimated at twenty thousand dollars in old currency.

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