| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| December 31, 1861 |
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| Accident on the South-side Railroad |
| We learn from the Petersburg Express that
an accident occurred on the South Side Railroad, about three miles
from that city, on Saturdaymorning last, which resulted in serious
damage to some of the rolling stock of
the company. At an early hour the regular freight train, with eighteen
or twenty cars heavily loaded, left the depot on its upward route. The
morning was very cold and a heavy frost covered the track, so that it
was almost impossible for the engine to move the train. When about
three miles from Petersburg, the water being low in the boiler, the
engineer cut lose from the cars and ran his engine further up the road
to refill. It was during this time that the passenger train to
Lynchburg, which usually starts an hour or two after the freight, came
up to the spot and ran into the cars which were standing still on the
road, badly injuring one of the finest engines of the company,
breaking to pieces the express car, and knocking off the bumpers of
the entire freight train. Fortunately no lives were lost, nor even
limb injured. |
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