| From the Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N. C.) |
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| September 22, 1862 |
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| A Frightful Accident |
| We are pained to learn that as the Hon.
Wm. S. Ashe, President of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, was
passing up the road towards his residence a few miles this side of
Wilmington on a hand car, on Friday evening last about dark, he was
met by the regular mail train from Goldsborough. Two others on the car
jumped off and escaped injury, but Mr. Ashe was thrown forward on the
track, and dreadfully mangled. He died, we understand, on Sunday
evening. |
| Hillsborough Recorder |
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