| From the Charleston Courier |
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| November 17, 1863 |
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| A Fatal Accident |
| On Sunday, 15th inst., when the train from
Branchville for Columbia {on the South Carolina
RR} was near Orangeburg, the axle of one of the cars broke, and
a car was thrown off the track. Dr. P. C. Green, Mail Agent on the
train, jumped from the car in which he was, and was crushed or bruised
so that he died instantly. There was no injury to any other person.
Dr. Green resided near White Pond Station, on the South Carolina Rail
Road, and had but a few hours before left there a wife who was
awaiting his return as usual, and received the first announcement of
her loss on the return of the corpse. |
| It is not in war or on the fields of
battle only that lessons and instances of sudden death and startling
bereavement are given. |
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