| From the Wilmington Journal |
| February 11, 1864 |
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| Distressing Accident |
| We this morning received the
following letter from the Postmaster at Faison's Depot on the Wilmington
& Weldon R. R. The deceased, we think, was a native of Bladen county: |
| Faison's N. C. |
| Feb. 9th, 1864 |
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| Messrs. Fulton & Price, |
| Last night, the 8th instant as
the train going North was passing Faison's, some gentlemen stated that a
comrade, passing from one car to another, had accidentally fallen from
the platform a short distance back, and requested some one to attend to
him. |
| He was found so horribly
mangled that it would have been impossible for any friend to have
recognised him, but for papers on his person, the whole train having
passed over his body, tearing away one arm, a part of the head, and
almost severing the body, scattering his intestines some distance along
the track. |
| On his person was found a case
of Surgical instruments, entirely ruined; a certificate to Andrew C.
Cromble, Assistant Surgeon 1st Texas Regiment; also a furlough signed by
command of Lieut. Gen. Longstreet; also a receipt from the
Quartermaster's office, Wilmington, N. C., (8th Feb,) certifying that
one hundred and ten dollars had been paid to A. C. Crombie, Assistant
Surgeon, signed Jas. R. Huggins, Capt. and A. Q. M., and one dollar in
Confederate money, a few private letters, &c., &c. |
| For information to his
friends, I mention that he was decently interred and should they wish to
obtain the above mentioned articles, they can get them by applying to |
| I. R Faison |
| Post Master at Faison's, N. C. |
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