From the Richmond Enquirer, 9/27/1862, p. 1, c. 6
A MYSTERIOUS LOCOMOTIVE
TUMBLE. – Yesterday morning, as the inward accommodation train on the Central
railroad was passing Strawberry Hill, five miles from the city, the locomotive
bounced from the track, broke loose from one another and the rest of the train,
and tumbled over the embankment into the ditch. The train was running at a speed
of only eight miles an hour at the time, and the shock was so slight that some
of the passengers did not observe it. The engineer and fireman escaped. No
defect in the track could be found, and none was known to exist upon the
locomotive. Until the latter is rescued from the mud and examined the cause of
the accident will remain a mystery.
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