| From the Memphis Appeal |
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| August 22, 1861 |
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| Railroad Accident near Knoxville |
| The Knoxville Register,
of the 20th inst., gives the following account of the railroad
accident which occurred three miles from that city, upon the East
Tennessee & Virginia railroad on the night previous: |
| Two extra trains, containing a
regiment of Mississippi soldiers, left our depot about dark, and had
hardly got out of hearing when the foremost train came into collision
with a freight train coming west. The collision was frightful, but
only one man, whose name we have not learned, was killed outright.
Some twenty-eight or thirty brave soldiers were more or less injured,
several of them it is supposed fatally. An engine was immediately
dispatched to this city, and several physicians at once repaired to
the spot. |
| About 11 o'clock the train
returned, bringing the wounded. Dr. Ramsey, who has charge of the
Knoxville hospital, having received intelligence of the accident, was
awaiting their arrival. The wounded were conveyed to the hospital,
where they received the most unremitting attention, both from those
having charge of the hospital, and from the medical force at Camp
Sneed. We cannot, at this late hour of the night, give a detailed
account of the collision, nor a list of the wounded. |
| The accident is charged to an
error in the railroad management, which should be investigated. e
refrain from telling the various rumors which are in circulation, lest
we should do injustice to some who are innocent. |
| The engineers and firemen of
both trains, as far as we can learn, escaped without injury. Although
much indignation was manifested toward them, they are said not to have
been to blame. These railroad accidents are becoming frequent. Let the
culpable parties be ferreted out, and let the responsibility rest upon
them. |
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