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The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal boiler Explosion. (search)
Fatal boiler Explosion.
--The Greenville (Ala. Messenger states that the boiler of a steam saw-mill, near that place, exploded on the 6th inst., killing Eben Odum and Daniel Pruitt, and fatally scalding Abraham Odum.
The head of the boiler shot upwards and fell about sixty feet; the boiler went straight forward, cutting through a large pile of lumber, two trees eight inches in diameter, knocking up a pine stump, glancing two other stumps and striking another tree which it nearly felled, but which broke its force and gave it a rebound of several feet.
The distance of the boiler in its passage was about one hundred yards, and the weight of the boiler about six thousand pounds.
Old Hanover.
--A large meeting was held at Old Church, on the 6th inst., Dr. E. S. Talley in the chair, and J. B. Gardner Secretary, Resolutions were adopted unanimously approving the course of the Legislature on the subject of the removal of cannon from Bellona Arsenal--censuring Mr. Wickman, (Senator from the district,) for his "progmatical and contumacious opposition to the action of the Southern Rights party in the Senate," notwithstanding the "well known opinions, sympathies, and feeling of an majority of his constituents, "--that the procrastination of the Virginia Convention has only emboldened the Black Republican Administration, and given it time to complete its preparation for coercion --that every proposition for reconciliation consistent with honor has been made, and that the proposed Border State Convention is but another scheme for delay, in conflict with the desire and ruinous to the best interests of Virginia — that the "usurpation of power by individuals," and