From the Richmond Dispatch, 10/30/62
Freaks of a Cannon Ball. – A ball fired from a cannon which was
being tried on Saturday at the Tredegar Iron Works, made a circuit in the air
and came down through the roof of the city pump-house a long distance off.
Passing through two floors and a floor beam, it narrowly grazed one of the large
water-wheels, and then spent its force against the rocks forming the foundation
of the building. The ball passed through a room in which the officers of the
pump-house very often assemble, but luckily it was unoccupied at the time.
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