| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| July 11, 1863 |
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| The Accident on the Petersburg Railroad |
| Five persons were killed and
eight wounded by the explosion of the locomotive "Jeff
Davis," on the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad, on Monday
evening. The engineer, Mr. Hugh Burns, died in about half an hour
after the accident, and the fireman, a free negro, named James Trent,
was killed almost instantly. The names of the other three we have not
heard. The following wounded men were brought to this city a few hours
after the explosion, and are now at Bailey's Factory Hospital, on 7th
street: Elbert Collins, private, co A 2d Georgia; James D. Ward, 3d Sergeant,
co A, 4th Mississippi; W. T. Ward, 1st Sergeant, co A, 4th
Mississippi; W. F. Caldwell, private, co C, 45th Georgia; J. J.
Phillips, co B, 36th Georgia; James Stewart, private, co G, 27th
Alabama; J. A. Weaver, private, co D, 4th Alabama Battalion; R. C.
Sullins, private, co A, 4th Mississippi (leg amputated;) and one
other, who is unsensible and unable to tell his name. The locomotive
was blown twenty feet into the air, and thrown forward upon the track
about a hundred feet and turned completely round. It is a complete
wreck. |
| Whig |
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