| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| March 24, 1864 |
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| Railroad collision |
| A collision occurred between
two trains on the
{Richmond &} Danville
Railroad about eight o'clock Tuesday
night. Owing to the heavy storm which was raging the passenger train,
due here at five o'clock in the afternoon, became stalled by the
collection of Irreg banks of snow on the track at a point about midway
between Powhatan Station and Coalfield, when it could proceed no
further. In a short while the freight train which usually follows
behind came on, and the intensity of the wind and snow rendering it
impossible to distinguish the signal which was put out by Captain
Taylor, of the preceding train, a collision was the consequence. Two
or three of the coaches were damaged, but no injury was sustained by
the passengers. The passengers, which but for the storm would have
reached this city the evening before, did not arrive till late
yesterday afternoon. |
| The up train, which left the Richmond
depot at the usual time Tuesday afternoon succeeded only in reaching
the Junction, where the passengers had to remain all night. |
| The snow also interrupted
communication on all the other roads running into this city. |
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