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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
The war movements.a passenger train fired into by a picket Guard on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad--Narrow escape of several passengers — the New York Seventh Regiment--Affairs at Fort McHenry--guns spiked, &c. [From the Baltimore Sun, of Friday.] The Western express train, which left Piedmont East, at 7,20 P. M., on Wednesday evening, in charge of Conductor Bryson, was fired into between 1 and 2 o'clock yesterday morning, at a point about one mile west of the Relay House, by a detachment of the troops stationed there, who, it is alleged, acted on the presumption that the train was carrying an attacking party of Confederate troops, such a rumor having been circulated. On the contrary, however, the train contained a number of New York and Philadelphia through passengers, including several ladies. It is usual when a train is called to a halt to wave a light in front of the train as a signal. The conductor and passengers assert that no such light was displayed, and the p