| From the Memphis Argus |
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| January 16, 1861 |
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| Accident on the Memphis & Ohio Railroad |
| Last evening as the freight
train on the Memphis & Ohio railroad, with the accommodation car
containing passengers, and the "caboose" baggage car
containing hands employed on the road, were nearing the depot, the
locomotive left the freight cars, and pushed on the two latter cars
before it. In consequence of turning the curve too rapidly these two
cars were thrown off, near the turn table. The coupling broke, leaving
the locomotive in safety on the rails. The cars fell down an
embankment and turned on their sides, ten feet from the track.
Fortunately no one was seriously injured, although between twenty and
thirty men were in the overturned cars. Several received slight
bruises. |
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