ABSTRACT
Huskisson was feeble in his legs, and appears to have lost his head, as he did his life. Calcraft tells that Huskisson’s long confinement in St. George’s Chapel at the King’s funeral brought on a complaint that Taylor is so afraid of, and that made some severe surgical operation necessary, the effect of which had been, according to what he had told Calcraft, to paralyse, as it were, one leg and thigh. Calcraft saw the meeting between him and the Duke and saw them shake hands a very short time before Huskisson’s death. When the other locomotive was seen coming up to pass them, there was a general shout from those within the Duke’s car to those without it, to get in. A freight car was standing at the railroad sidings of Jellico, Tennessee, with a load of 150 cases of 60% dynamite and 300 cases of 40% dynamite, a total of 22,500 lbs of explosives.
