| From the Richmond Sentinel |
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| June 30, 1863 |
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| A Bridge Broken Down and a Locomotive Submerged |
| Sunday evening,
about 4 o'clock, the large locomotive J. R. Anderson started on a trip
to Petersburg, and got on very well until reaching Swift Creek, three
miles this side of that city. The creek is spanned by a bridge, about
one hundred feet in length, which, when the engine was in the center,
broke down with a crash, plunging the locomotive into water twelve
feet in depth. We hear that the engineer had a leg broken, but no
further casualty occurred. The Anderson was formerly used on the {Virginia}
Central route, for hauling trains over the Blue Ridge, and has
of late been in use in this city for moving heavy burden trains from
the {Richmond &} Petersburg
to the {Richmond,} Fredericksburg {&
Potomac} depot, for which its great power rendered it
especially suitable. It was to have been placed on the route between
Petersburg and Weldon {the Petersburg RR}. |
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