| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| May 6, 1862 |
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| Railroad Accident |
| We have already stated that a
fatal accident took place on Saturday morning last on the {Memphis
&} Charleston railroad owing to the military authorities
having deprived the road of its telegraphic instrument. It appears that
while a train was stopped for wood and water at Pocahontas a train,
full of soldiers ran into it. The engine of this latter train turned
off his steam and had the breaks down, but there is an inclined plain
at that spot and the collision was inevitable. The contact was not
sufficiently violent to very greatly damage the locomotives or the
cars; but five of the soldiers were killed and several injured but
none, so we understand, in a manner likely to result fatally. It is
said that the engineer and conductor of the moving train ran off. |
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