| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| June 18, 1861 |
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| Explosion of a locomotive |
| The Knoxville Register gives
the following particulars of a sad event which is alluded to by our
Lynchburg correspondent: |
| A serious explosion occurred
on the East Tennessee & Georgia Railroad on Thursdayafternoon,
attended with a melancholy loss of life. The engine,
"Sam Tate," exploded about two miles West of McDonald's
Station, between Cleveland and Chattanooga, killing instantly the
engineer, Alexander Moore, and the fireman, Cornelius Cady, and one
soldier who was on the engine, besides
mortally wounding another soldier. The engineer was one of the most
efficient and highly esteemed upon the road, and his melancholy fate
has not only carried grief into his own family, but has saddened hosts
of friends and acquaintances in this community, who knew and esteemed
him. The volunteers upon the train, we learn, behave nobly on the
occasion. They not only contributed a handsome sum of money for the
support of the family of the lamented engineer, but they went to work
with energy to repair the track which was torn up by the explosion and
impeded by the wreck. |
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