| From the Fayetteville (N. C.) Observer |
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| May 4, 1863 |
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| Depressing Rail Road Accident |
| The train from the West {on
the Western RR} passed over some cattle and was thrown from the
track some 12 or 14 miles from here late on Saturday afternoon last.
There were some two hundred passengers on board, mostly young people
who had gone up the road to enjoy a May Day Pic Nic. Information of
the accident reached Town about 7 1/2 P. M., and from that time until
3 A. M. on Sunday our streets were thronged with people most painfully
excited by the stories and distressing rumors of casualties reported
by persons who walked in. At the latter hour the train sent up the
road returned, and it was found that though many persons were
considerably bruised, but two were seriously injured -- a son and a
servant of Mr. Philemon Taylor, each of whom had a broken leg. |
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The locomotive was pushing the train at the time of the
accident, or probably it would not have occurred. This was done, we
understand, to gratify the passengers, who (riding on flats) had been
incommoded by the sparks from the locomotive when pulling the train up
the road in the morning. The locomotive was not injured. The flats are
said to be completely crushed.
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