| From the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer |
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| September 17, 1863 |
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| Accident on the Western & Atlantic
Railroad |
| The train which left here last
night at 7 o'clock, on the Western & Atlantic Road, for Dalton,
returned this morning, not having been able to proceed on account of a
collision between the up and down trains of yesterday afternoon. The
collision occurred on the Etowah grade, four miles beyond Altoona. The
up train was run by the locomotive Senator, Mr. Schofield
engineer; the down train was run by the locomotive Chieftain, Mr.
Ilowden engineer. The up train had on board the 10th Tennessee
Regiment, 1st Tennessee Battalion, and the 50th Tennessee Regiment,
and we regret to learn that some ten or fifteen were killed, and about
thirty or forty wounded. They were clearing the wreck when our
informant left, and we have been unable to learn any further
particulars. |
| Atlanta Intell, 15th |
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