| From the New Orleans Daily Crescent |
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| June 22, 1861 |
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| Serious Accident on the East Tenn. &
Va. Railroad |
| A serious accident occurred,
as we learn, on this road, a few days since, which resulted in the
death of two members of a Mississippi company from Holly Springs. The
cars were overcrowded, and one soldier got on the tender of the
engine, whilst another was on the platform of the front car. The
capacity of the engine was too small for the load it had to draw, and
the engineer was compelled to put on a high pressure of steam. There
being no steam guage to the engine, (a sad deficiency) it was
difficult to regulate the steam and a collapse of the boiler resulted,
killing the two soldiers as above stated. The accident occurred at a
point about seventeen miles this side of Atlanta, and the facts are
here given as we learned them from a soldier who was on the train. |
| Lynchburg Virginian |
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