NP, HT 5/18/1863

From the Houston Telegraph
 
May 18, 1863
 
   The train on the Texas & New Orleans road was thrown from the track near Beaumont on Friday by running over a cow. A soldier of Nicholds' battery, named Hooker, of Panola county, was killed. Another man was severely wounded. The locomotive was considerably injured. The trains will be delayed a day or two.

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