NP, MAP 12/29/1862

From the Memphis Appeal
 
December 29, 1862
 
Railroad Accident
   Yesterday evening as a freight train was coming in {probably to Jackson} from Vicksburg {on the Southern (of Mississippi) RR}, it ran over two mules on the track, throwing off the locomotive and mashing up some four or five cars. No personal injury was sustained by the accident, though a lady and her child made a very narrow escape, they being in a box car which was overturned.

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