| From the Houston Telegraph |
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| March 6, 1863 |
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| From the Louisiana Courier |
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| We are pained to receive the following dispatch early
this morning: |
| To the editor of the Courier: |
| Lake, Feb. 20 |
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| Major Lilly was killed about twenty-two
miles from here by the locomotive falling through a bridge. |
| M. H. Valan |
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| Lake is on the Southern {of
Mississippi} Railroad, about 30 miles from
Jackson. |
| The latest dispatches from the scene of
this terrible accident we learn from Mr. L' Hommedieu, operator at
Natchez, that 21 bodies have been found, and that about 50 lives were
supposed to be lost |