NP, RD 2/9A/1864

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch
 
February 9, 1864
 
Serious Accident
   About five o'clockyesterday afternoon, as the outward-bound train on the {Richmond &} Petersburg road was moving off, a little girl about five years of age, the daughter of Mrs. Johanna Stubling, Jumped upon the cow catcher, with the intention, doubtless, of getting a ride. Suddenly she lost her balance, and before the engine could be checked, was thrown on the track, and both legs were horribly mangled by the wheels of the locomotive passing over them. The little sufferer was immediately taken to her mother's residence, where medical assistance was speedily obtained, but it is thought she cannot survive her injuries.
 
{Reported in the February 11 issue of the same paper}:
Died from her Injuries
   Mary Driscoll, the little girl whose legs were cut off at the Petersburg Depot on Mondayafternoon last, by the wheels of a locomotive running over them, died at the residence of her mother on Bird street, on the night of the accident.

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