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

Written Accounts

1862-08-06, Richmond Enquirer; fatal accident at the C. S. Laboratory on Belle Isle - explosion of fulminating powder
1862-08-06, Richmond Examiner; fatal explosion at the Confederate States Laboratory on Brown’s Island. William Pratt killed in an explosion of “a small frame building where the fulminating powder for percussion caps was prepared”
1862-08-08, Richmond Dispatch; details of William Pratt, the victim of the recent explosion on Brown's Island
1862-08-08, Richmond Enquirer; correction regarding the city of origin of the man recently killed at the C. S. Laboratory
1862-08-21, Richmond Dispatch; cannonball, fired from Tredegar Iron Works while proving guns, lands two 1/2 miles off
1862-08-25, Richmond Dispatch; a soldiers, injured in a jump from a hotel window, dies in Baskerville Hospital (GH#7)
1862-08-25, Richmond Enquirer; Louisiana Zouave, evading police, jumps out of a window of the Columbian hotel, fractures his skull, taken to Baskerville Hospital, and later dies
1862-09-08, Richmond Dispatch; S. W. Glover, K41VA, killed in canal boat accident – smashed head on bridge
1862-09-26, Richmond Dispatch; Mrs. Jones, 25th between Main & Cary, has son badly injured by cars at R&YRRR depot
1862-10-02, Richmond Dispatch; negro boy run over by “street railway car,” Main below 20th

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