NP, AC 7/24/1864

From the Augusta Constitutionalist
 
July 24, 1864
 
The Engine Sunshine -- Full Particulars
   We publish a day or two since a dispatch announcing the blowing up of the Engine Sunshine. Since then we have been enabled to ascertain a few more particulars.
   The Sunshine was a first class locomotive constructed at the depot of the Macon & Western Railroad in this city, and has not been in use but a short time. The cause of the bursting of the boiler has not yet been ascertained, but is thought to have been on account of some of the water valves becoming stopped up, and the water running too low. The blowing up occurred about 25 miles this side of Atlanta, and the scene as presented to those present was truly appalling. The Engineer, James Huskeith, was instantly killed, as also the Fireman. The wood passer was badly scalded, Mr. Dennis who was on the engine at the time, was killed, Dr. Harris, who was a passenger jumped from the train, and one of the boxes tumbling over, fell upon him, and crushed him to death. A lady who was inside the box was not injured. Some six or seven other persons whose names we could not learn, were more or less injured, among them the train guard, Noverdy.
   So severe was the shock that the tender and two or three boxes were thrown some considerable distance down an embankment; and the engine ***** 
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