Southampton-Dinwiddie County-Petersburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Train Wreck, 1917 

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3 Die When Engine Bursts
Conductor & Brakeman Killed
Fireman Succumbs Later
Special to the Washington Post

Petersburg VA - Feb 6 - On the Seaboard Air Line Railroad this afternoon 
near Dinwiddie Station about 20 miles from Petersburg, the locomotive 
of a southbound freight train, which left Petersburg today at 2:40 p.m., 
blew-up killing conductor E.H. Grizzard and Matthew Austin, a colored 
brakeman.  E. Gilchrist a colored fireman died later in Petersburg Hospital. 
H.B. Adams, Engineer, and L.F. Briggs, flagman, are in this hospital badly 
injured.

The track was so badly blocked that all trains of the road tonight are being 
sent over the Atlantic Coast Railway.

The injured were brought to Petersburg this evening on a special train for 
treatment at the time of the blow-up.  Conductor Grizzard was in the cab with 
Engineer Adams, and how the later escaped with his life is remarkable.  The 
locomotive, which was completely wrecked, had been in use but a few days. 
Conductor Grizzard was about 30 and [had] 2 small children. 


"3 Die When Engine Bursts" - 
conductor Eugene Hinton GRIZZARD, fireman E. GILCHRIST & flagman E.F. BRIGGS, 
Seaboard Air Line R.R. locomotive explosion, 6 Feb 1917, near Dinwiddie Stn., 
"The Washington (DC) Post," Feb. 7, 1917, p. 5 

Additional information: 

Hinton GRIZZARD was a native of Southampton Co. 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 11, 1927, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g626e2ob.txt 

His widow appears in the 1920 Census in Boykins, with 3 children - 
   Hinton E{arl}, age 6, Frances M., age 4, & Victor B., age 2 (apparently 
   born after his father died). 

Edna Floy GARDNER GRIZZARD remarried in Suffolk 6 Mar 1923 to Robert WILCOX, 
   and they had at least 3 daughters- Edna, Margaret & Martha {d. @ 13 mos.}. 

*Edna and both husbands are buried with Hinton's parents 
   in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins - Annex 1, Section B, Plot 3. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Beechwood list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 


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Sandra Beaver (bbeaver@bellsouth.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/news/19170207wp.txt