| From the Richmond Examiner |
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| September 6, 1861 |
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| Railroad Accident |
| The Lynchburg Virginian says a
serious accident occurred on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, west of
Abington on S?? night. Two trains loaded with soldiers were coming in
this direction and the first train of eight cars nearly reached the
summit of a grade, when the coupling broke, and five of the cars
becoming detached from the others which adhered to the engine came
dashing back down the grade. The conductor and brakesmen being on the
foremost cars there was nobody to check the retrograde movement which
commenced until the detached cars came in collision with the train in
their rear, which happened to be descending the grade facing that at
which the first cars ran away. |
| Both trains were loaded with
soldiers -- the remainder of the Polish Brigade -- some of whom were ???
and wounded, though the extent of the damage could not be learned last
night. The accident seems to have been against which no foresight could
provide and the locality the very worst for such a collision, and two
grades facing each other increased the velocity of the trains coming
together. |
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