| From the Savannah Morning News |
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| April 24, 1863 |
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| Railroad Accident |
| Quite a serious smash up
occurred on the South Carolina road this morning. While the passenger
train, due at Augusta at 9 o'clock, was passing over a culvert near
Brooks' Mill, one mile from Hamburg, the conductor's car and two
passenger coaches were precipitated from the track and turned over. The
cars were very much damaged, and a negro, who was sitting on the
platform, was killed. The cars were crowded with passengers, including
an unusual number of women and children, and what is almost marvelous,
they escaped without injury. Two or three soldiers were slightly
bruised. |
| The passengers were removed
from the pile of mutilated cars through the windows, by the gallant
conductor, Mr. Charles Clancey, whose polite attentions are gratefully
acknowledged by those who thus narrowly escaped mutilation or death. |
| No passenger train left the
city this morning, but it is thought the damage to the track will be
repaired during the day. |
| Augusta Constitutionalist, 22d |
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