NP, RD 6/18B/1861

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
June 18, 1861
 
Lynchburg, June 17
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   A shocking casualty occurred on the East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad last Fridaymorning, by the explosion of the boiler of a locomotive. Some three or four lives lost and several persons injured. The engineer and fireman were among the killed. The rest were soldiers. Neither names or particulars learned.
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