| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| November 27, 1861 |
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| Railroad accident |
| A correspondent of the Petersburg Express,
writing from Battleboro', N. C., Nov. 23, has the following relative to
an accident which occurred near that place on the morning of the 23d: |
| As the regular express train on the
Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, which left the former place at 2 1/2 A.
M., was approaching this station, it encountered a wagon drawn by a mule
and a horse, while the latter was crossing at the cut just one hundred
yards south of the depot. The wagon was struck near the middle and
knocked into fragments. The driver, a stupid looking negro boy, was
hurled violently into a ditch near by, and a son of Mr. Archibald
Braswell, to whom the team belongs, was thrown out, and, falling upon
his face, sustained a severe cut on it. |
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