NP, RD 9/16/1863

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
September 16, 1863
 
Serious Railroad Accident
Marietta, Sept. 14
   The train from Atlanta yesterday {on the Western & Atlantic RR} morning ran off the track two miles above here. No damage was done then; but the train was delayed, and, running out of schedule train time, it collided with a special train last evening near Etowah, killing some fifteen soldiers and wounding forty. The passenger train from Atlanta is delayed here.

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