| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| October 18, 1862 |
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| The accident on the {Virginia} Central
Railroad |
| Charlottesville, Va., Oct. 15 |
| A frightful accident occurred last night
about 11 o'clock, six miles from here, on the Central road, near the
farm of Wm. W. Gilmer. The cars were thrown from the track by a cow,
and seven persons killed--five soldiers and two colored men. The locomotive
became detached, and was uninjured. Five cars and the tender were
precipitated down an embankment 19 feet deep. One of the cars was
knocked all to places; another was turned bottom upwards. One went
partly over, but was not precipitated down the embankment, and one
remained uninjured on the track. Geo. Griffith, of the Hampton Legion,
from Abbeville, 8. C., Jas., H. Barnes, 18th Georgia, and --Owens, of
the 45th Georgia, were among the killed. John Smith, Company K.
(Halifax,) of the 14th Virginia, had his leg amputated at the Delavan
Hospital, by Drs. Allen and Davis. |
| Those of the wounded were, George P.
Badger, 12th Va. regiment, co A, leg broken; D C McMasters, N C 2d
regiment, co L, hips injured; J E Williams, 31 Ala regiment, badly
bruised; H. H. Dirks, 10th Va cavalry, head, not very bad; W T Abbitt,
1st Rifle regiment, 8 C, co F, breast; J M Moore, 14th 8 C regiment,
head and breast; G W Crump, 10th Va cavalry, co A, right and back; I
Nesslar, 10th Va cavalry, co A, right leg broken; H W Hay, 19th
Georgia, company F, hips; C B Gladley, 19th Georgia, company F; J
Winfrey, 12th Virginia, company K, side and hip; A De Leon Moses, co
H, Hampton's Legion, S C, leg broken; J J Smith; 14th Va, co K, thigh
broken; W A Loundermilk, 2d N C, co C, both thighs broken; Serg't John
Bahr, 23d S C reg, head; T J Wilkinson, Richmond Huzzas, co B, 3d bat
cav, arm broken; E C Harper, 5th Ala, co I, back and left leg; Elisha
Heady, 44th Ala, head and back, 8 C Okelly, 16th Ga.co. A. ankle, not
badly; J H Greshstealst Ga, co E. right leg and breast; A Hale, 7th 8
C, co D, thigh, back, and hand; R B Bailey, 7th Ga., co F. face and
back; Lieut H L Solomon, 48th Ga, co G, leg broken. Some thirty-five
others were slightly wounded. |
| The killed and wounded were brought to the
Delavan Hospital, on the Lynchburg train, at three o'clock
to-day. |
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