Accidents
Information about accidents in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1914-07-16, Richmond Times-Dispatch; man injured at Tredegar “by a flying red-hot piece of steel”
1917-07-31, Richmond Times-Dispatch; man badly injured in a fall from a ladder at the Tredegar Iron Works
1917-08-02, Richmond Times-Dispatch; two men terribly burned at Tredegar Iron Works
1917-09-26, Richmond Times-Dispatch; man suffers broken skull at the Tredegar Iron Works
1925-09-13, San Diego (CA) Union; important account from the post-war foundry manager at Tredegar Iron Works, describing the problems of getting shells from the battlefields in lots of scrap iron, and the casting of the last cast-iron cannon in the United
1933-08-31, Richmond Times-Dispatch; 64-year-old worker injured at Tredegar Iron Works
1941-03-13, Richmond Times Dispatch; two twin boys drown in the canal near Tredegar – one body found against the intake grate off the canal
1941-03-27, Richmond Times-Dispatch; man crushed by a train and killed at the Tredegar Iron Works
1948-07-09, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Charles E. Krengel, brother of John Ernest Krengel (unsolved murder victim at Tredegar), killed by a streetcar at 7th and Broad
1982, Civil War Times Illustrated (Oct. 1982), pp. 36-41; Burton, David L. "Friday the 13th: Richmond's Great Home Front Disaster."

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