| From the Richmond Daily Dispatch |
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| January 15, 1862 |
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| Railroad collision |
| One Man Killed. The Memphis Appeal, of the 9th inst.,
says: |
| At 11 o'clock on Tuesdaymorning, five
miles this side of Tuscumbia, the freight train going out from Memphis
{on the Memphis & Charleston RR} and
the passenger train coming in, came into collision. The passenger
train contrived to slacken their speed, and we are informed was
stationary, but the freight train was running at the rate of fifteen
miles an hour. The two locomotives were greatly damaged, one brakeman,
of the freight train, was bruised, but not dangerously, and another
brakeman, of the same train, was killed. He was standing on one of the
cars at the time and was thrown down by the shock into the flat car
next to it. Here he was caught by the tongue of a wagon in the
car, which pinned him between the
shoulders against the car from which he
had fallen, entering his body and killing him instantly. So hard was
the tongue jammed that it had to be sawed in two before the body could
be removed. |
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