NP, MAP 12/18/1862

From the Memphis Appeal
 
December 18, 1862
 
Railroad Accident
   We learn from the Mississippian, that the passenger train which left here {Jackson} Wednesday morning {Southern (of Mississippi) RR}, when within eight miles of Vicksburg, ran off the track. Two of the cars were upset and fell over an embankment of a great height, causing twenty-five persons to be very badly injured, and four seriously.

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