Crisp County GaArchives News.....Train Fire at Cordele November 7, 1898
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Savannah Morning  News//Cordele Hornet November 7, 1898
                        TRAIN FIRE AT CORDELE
                             7 NOVEMBER 1898

     A curious sight was witnessed in Cordele yesterday. A Georgia Southern
locomotive rolled into town at a rapid rate with a steam of fire bursting from
its tender and blowing its whistle vigorously. It was stopped by the engineer,
opposite the fire plug at Ninth street and Twelfth Avenue. A hose reel was
quickly on the scene and a stream of water turned on the burning engine. The
fire was extinguished and the engine  was carried back to the train which it had
left two miles south of the city. The wood on the tender had caught from a spark  

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