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The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War News. (search)
Perdue; the conductor, J. T. Bragg; the fireman, H. c. Deales, and wm. Parish, a brother-in-law of the conductor, riding on the engine. when in the deep cut two miles and a half this side of Petersburg, and exactly opposite the residence of Mr. James Dunlop, the boiler of the engine blew up with a tremendous noise, which was heard at a distance of ten miles. The engineer, with both legs and his right arm blown off and his head horribly mangled, was thrown over into an adjacent field. The conduhough it was running at the rate of ten miles an hour. Some idea of the violence of the concussion caused by the explosion can be formed from the fact that, though the engine was in a deep cut at the time, every pane of glass in the windows of Mr. Dunlop's house, a hundred yards off, were broken out. The explosion being heard in Petersburg, and the cause conjectured, assistance was immediately sent to the wrecked train. Two of the victims of this disaster--Mr. Bragg, the conductor, and Mr.