| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| June 4, 1864 |
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| Railroad accident |
| On the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad {the
Petersburg RR},
Wednesdaynight, the mail train stopped at Stony Creek Station for wood
and water, and while there the freight train, of which, we understand,
Jno Harrison was engineer, dashed up at a rapid rate, and in the face
of the red light displayed, ran into the rear car.
The entire train was, of course, heavily jarred by the collision, and
not a little damage was sustained. The platforms and hampers of four
or five of the passenger cars were knocked off and broken to pieces,
and some of the cars themselves seriously strained. But the sadder
part of the affair was the injury to life and limb that resulted. A
young soldier named Paulson, hulling from the Chesterfield District, S
C, who was wounded in one of the engagements near this city, was
terribly mangled on the platform of one of the cars, and instantly
killed. He had been under treatment at the South Carolina
hospital in Petersburg, and had so far recovered as to admit of a transfer to the hospital
in Columbia, where he would be nearer his friends and relatives. He was the last
but one of nine brothers who entered this war--seven having been
killed, or died from wounds received on the battlefield. Some ten or
fifteen soldiers who were returning home on furlough, were wounded,
some of them severely, others slightly. One poor fellow was so closely
bummed in between the broken cars, that he had to be cut out with an
axe. |
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