| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| July 24, 1864 |
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| The Engine Sunshine -- Full Particulars |
| We publish a day or two since
a dispatch announcing the blowing up of the Engine Sunshine. Since
then we have been enabled to ascertain a few more particulars. |
| The Sunshine was a first class
locomotive constructed at the depot of the Macon & Western
Railroad in this city, and has not been in use but a short time. The
cause of the bursting of the boiler has not yet been ascertained, but
is thought to have been on account of some of the water valves
becoming stopped up, and the water running too low. The blowing up
occurred about 25 miles this side of Atlanta, and the scene as
presented to those present was truly appalling. The Engineer, James
Huskeith, was instantly killed, as also the Fireman. The wood passer
was badly scalded, Mr. Dennis who was on the engine at the time, was
killed, Dr. Harris, who was a passenger jumped from the train, and one
of the boxes tumbling over, fell upon him, and crushed him to death. A
lady who was inside the box was not injured. Some six or seven other
persons whose names we could not learn, were more or less injured,
among them the train guard, Noverdy. |
| So severe was the shock that
the tender and two or three boxes were thrown some considerable
distance down an embankment; and the engine ***** |
| Macon Confederate |
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