| From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph |
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| August 16, 1861 |
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| Fatal Accident |
| We alluded on yesterday
morning to the detention of the passenger train on the Muscogee
Railroad, and the reported demolition of three cars. The statement was
corroborated by the arrival of the cars at 12 M., yesterday, bringing
the following particulars of the sad accident: "The train left
Columbus with the following Companies, viz: Harris Grays, Capt.
McCullough; Georgia Guards, Capt. D. B. Thompson, and Columbus
Volunteers, Capt. F. S. Chapman. When the train arrived at Odom's some
fourteen or sixteen miles east of Columbus, and within a short
distance of the place where the previous accident occurred, on the
same road, and before the engineer was aware of the danger, the engine
and tender were precipitated into a wash of some twenty or thirty feet
in width, which had been made in an embankment, leaving the rails in
their position but destitute of support. The first baggage car was
thrown upon the engine and tender, and the second baggage was
projected through the first, and the third car running through and
stopping over the engine and in the first car. The truck of the fourth
car was broken, leaving the box on the track. |
| Corporal D. C. Moore, of the
Columbus Volunteers, was killed, and two negroes belonging to the
Company, and a good many were bruised and wounded. The baggage of the
"Volunteers" was almost completely demolished. The other
companies, fortunately, lost nothing. |
| Mrs. Whittlesey, living near,
discovered the break, and proceeded forward in a drenching rain to
give the signal to the Engineer of the danger, but her good intentions
were thwarted by not being understood, or by the Engineer supposing
her signals to be cheers for the soldiers. |
| Mr. and Mrs. Whittlesey, and
others, extended the most unbounded hospitality to the soldiers, and
Drs. McIlvain and Whittlesey made strenuous efforts to render the
sufferers comfortable. The "Guards" and
"Volunteers" left yesterday evening at 3 o'clock, for
Atlanta, where they will rendezvous with their Regiment under Col. H.
L. Benning. |
| The "Harris Grays"
left last night for Virginia. |
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