| From the Daily Picayune (New Orleans, La.) |
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| September 8, 1861 |
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| Railroad Accident |
| The Knoxville Register, of the 5th inst.,
gives the following account of the railroad accident, by which one of
the Askew Guards, of this city, was killed, and a number injured: |
| On Sunday night last, two trains left
Bristol for Lynchburg {on the Virginia & Tennessee
RR}, with a regiment of the Polish brigade, from Louisiana, and a
couple of independent Georgia companies. The trains were not far apart,
and while the foremost was going up a heavy grade near Abingdon, the
coupling between two of the cars broke, detaching six cars, which at
once started backward down the grade, and came in collision with the
train which was following. Two of the cars were smashed to pieces,
killing one soldier outright, and wounding some fourteen others, of whom
two died the following day. The wounded were taken to Abingdon and
properly cared for. |
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