NP, RD 6/18C/1861

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
June 18, 1861
 
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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