| From the Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N. C.) |
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| August 2, 1864 |
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| Wm. E. Manning, a soldier from Orange
Spring, Fla., was killed on the N. C. Railroad, 2 miles beyond China
Grove station, in this County, on the 26th July. He got off the mail
train for some purpose, and being quite sick and scarcely able to walk,
was left. A freight train was coming down on a side track as the other
moved off. Mr. Manning was making his way towards the track with evident
anxiety to regain the mail train. On reaching the track he either
accidently fell upon it with his neck across the rail, or in a moment of
despondency threw himself there, and made no effort to recover or to
avoid the freight train, at that moment within a few feet of him. The
engineer reversed his engine, but it was too late. The poor sick,
disappointed soldier was quickly released from the pains and sorrows of
life. His head was severed from his body. |
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