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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], Vicksburg. (search)
, and then upset in a ditch. Some of the rails were bent almost double, the was lifted twenty feet and thrown fifty yards in the engine was completely demolished. A friend of the engineer says he was very much depressed for several days before the fatal accident, and remarked that he did not like to see the steam and water escaping by the clay bolts in his engine. Mr. Hugh Barus, the engineer, died from the scalding he received in half an hour after the explosion; and his fireman, Jim Trent, (a negro,) died soon after. One of the soldiers killed was a member of the 2d Georgia regiment; the other was a marine from on board the steamer Atlanta. Another soldier had his left ankle crushed badly; a fourth received a painful contusion on the left knee, and some slight internal injuries; a fifth was severely, though not dangerously, scalded, and one of the guards was severely wounded on the head. The train, consisting of eight coaches, was detained some time till another loco