| From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph |
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| May 12, 1863 |
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| Narrow Escape |
| The Saturday evening train on
the Augusta & Waynesboro Railroad {Augusta
& Savannah RR} while crossing Butler Creek, eight miles
from Augusta, came near a catastrophe. The two passenger cars, in a
long train principally freight cars, got off the rail and crossed the
bridge upon the stringer, part of the way up, on their wheels, but
these being detached, they finished the passage by sliding.
Fortunately no one was jurt, and after getting over the creek, the
passengers took seats in the box cars and save the connection at
Millen. It was a narrow escape from a tumble of twenty-five or thirty
feet. |
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