From the Richmond Dispatch, 3/17/1863, p. 2, c. 2
DIED,
…Killed, instantly, on Friday morning, by the explosion at the Laboratory on Brown’s Island, FRANCES BLASINGAME, aged 17 years.
Dearest sister, thou hast left us
We they loss most deeply feel;
But ‘tis God that hath bereft,
He can all our sorrows heal.
Petersburg Express please copy.