| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| February 9, 1864 |
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| Serious Accident |
| About five o'clockyesterday afternoon, as
the outward-bound train on the {Richmond &} Petersburg
road was moving off, a little girl about five years of age, the
daughter of Mrs. Johanna Stubling, Jumped upon the cow catcher, with
the intention, doubtless, of getting a ride. Suddenly she lost her
balance, and before the engine could be checked, was thrown on the
track, and both legs were horribly mangled by the wheels of the locomotive
passing over them. The little sufferer was immediately taken to her
mother's residence, where medical assistance was speedily obtained,
but it is thought she cannot survive her injuries. |
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| {Reported in the February 11
issue of the same paper}: |
| Died from her Injuries |
| Mary Driscoll, the little girl whose legs
were cut off at the Petersburg Depot on Mondayafternoon last, by the
wheels of a locomotive running over
them, died at the residence of her mother on Bird street, on the night
of the accident. |
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