NP, MAP 8/6/1862

From the Memphis Appeal
 
August 6, 1862
 
Railroad Accident
   By a collision on the Montgomery and Pensacola railroad {Alabama & Florida (of Alabama) RR}, on Friday last {the 1st}, between an empty train down and a full one up, two persons were killed and forty wounded. One engineer was badly hurt, and many of the cars destroyed. No cause for the accident has been assigned.

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