| From the Southern Confederacy (Atlanta,
Ga.) |
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| July 8, 1862 |
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| Accident on the State Road {Western
& Atlantic RR} |
| An accident occurred on
Sunday, near Johnson, on the State Road, 17 miles this side of
Chattanooga. The information received is somewhat indefinite. One
dispatch states that the locomotives Governor and Excel
collided, but it is known that the Governor was not there.
Another dispatch is that the Excel exploded, killing the
fireman and engineer, and killing several horses. We hope to get
further particulars. |
| P. S. by the arrival of the train from
Chattanooga, we have this information: |
| That the Excel and President
collided about a quarter mile this side of Johnson Station, killing
Frank Cannon and Geo. Prince, the Engineer and Fireman on the Excel,
and 12 soldiers -- names not learned -- belonging to Capers'
Battalion, of Augusta and wounded 80. |
| The President had gone
up on Saturday, carrying a train of soldiers, and the conductor, H. L.
Wing, was trying to bring back the train on Sunday by running freight
train time, instead of waiting till Monday. We suppose it did not
occur to him that freight trains do not run on Sunday; hence the
mistake. |
| The up train was going at full
speed, and the momentum of the cars, forced the tender of the Excel
over the boiler, causing its explosion. |
| Cannon and Prince, the
engineer and fireman who were killed, both lived in this place. They
both leave families in dependent circumstances -- the former a wife
and two or three children -- the latter a wife and four children. Wing
is a young man, lately from the wars. He served with the Gate City
Guards till their time was out. |
| P. S. No. 2 Another account
states that there were five soldiers and seven negros killed, and 86
persons scalded and crippled, and five horses killed. |
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