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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
. 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 place not being the regular stopping point, the train came on, of course. Immediately, about ten or eleven muskets were fired — some say at the engineer, Mr. Lewis, but nearly all the balls fired took effect in the two first passenger cars, five leaving their mark. One ball struck near the head of a lady, Mrs, Murdock, of New York, taking out a large piece of the woodwork of the car; a second passed in close proximity to the hand of a gentleman, a hotel keeper at Harper's Ferry, carrying away several slats of the window; while a third ball entered the water-closet, perforating four partitions. The train, previous to the firing, had been delayed several hours beyond its regular time, caused by the interruptions at Harper's Ferry. Point of Rocks, and elsewhere, where the railroad track is destroyed, an