NP, AC 7/11/1863

From the Augusta Constitutionalist
 
July 11, 1863
 
The Accident on the Petersburg Railroad
   Five persons were killed and eight wounded by the explosion of the locomotive "Jeff Davis," on the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad, on Monday evening. The engineer, Mr. Hugh Burns, died in about half an hour after the accident, and the fireman, a free negro, named James Trent, was killed almost instantly. The names of the other three we have not heard. The following wounded men were brought to this city a few hours after the explosion, and are now at Bailey's Factory Hospital, on 7th street: Elbert Collins, private, co A 2d Georgia; James D. Ward, 3d Sergeant, co A, 4th Mississippi; W. T. Ward, 1st Sergeant, co A, 4th Mississippi; W. F. Caldwell, private, co C, 45th Georgia; J. J. Phillips, co B, 36th Georgia; James Stewart, private, co G, 27th Alabama; J. A. Weaver, private, co D, 4th Alabama Battalion; R. C. Sullins, private, co A, 4th Mississippi (leg amputated;) and one other, who is unsensible and unable to tell his name. The locomotive was blown twenty feet into the air, and thrown forward upon the track about a hundred feet and turned completely round. It is a complete wreck.
Whig

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