| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| December 16, 1861 |
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| Fatal Railroad accident |
| Last Friday afternoon a gravel train, on
the Memphis & Charleston railroad ran off the track near Dixon, Alabama.
By this accident the fireman, a man named Carpenter, was killed, and
severe injuries were sustained by the engineer. This accident occasioned
the detention of the passenger train due in this city Saturday afternoon
at one o'clock. |
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