| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| December 10, 1864 |
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| Yankees attempting to blow up railroad trains |
| The Quincy {probably
Florida} Dispatch of the 19th says the Yankees have been
attempting to blow up trains of cars on the
Florida railroad with torpedoes. On
Tuesday last, a torpedo, containing sixty-eight pounds of powder, was
taken up by our men, between Baldwin and Gainesville, some fifteen miles from
Baldwin. Two trains had passed over the torpedo without exploding it. It was
buried in the centre of the track, and was to be fired by means of a
lock and cap attached to a musket barrel, and laid under one of the
rails, and connecting with the torpedo by a gutta-percha tube. A piece
of iron happened to be left between the hammer of the lock and the
cap, which prevented the explosion when the cars passed over. |
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