NP, RD 8/27/1862

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch
 
August 27, 1862
 
Railroad accident

   An accident occurred on the Fredericksburg Railroad {Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac RR}, near the Junction, on Monday evening, which resulted in the death of a negro man belonging to Mr. W. N. Bragg, Superintendent of the road. He was riding on a train which was in motion, and, from some cause not understood, fell off and across the track, and the train passed over him. He had been a train hand on the road for some twelve years.

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