From the Richmond Dispatch |
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September 16, 1863 |
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Serious Railroad Accident |
Marietta, Sept. 14 |
The train from Atlanta
yesterday {on the Western & Atlantic RR} morning
ran off the track two miles above here. No damage was done then; but
the train was delayed, and, running out of schedule train time, it
collided with a special train last evening near Etowah,
killing some fifteen soldiers and wounding forty. The passenger train
from Atlanta
is delayed here. |
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