NP, SMR 8/12/1862

From the Selma Morning Reporter
 
August 12, 1862
 
Railroad Collisions
   A serious collision occurred on last Friday morning {the 1st} on the Alabama & Florida {of Alabama} railroad below Greenville, by which two were killed and forty-two wounded, three of who have since died. On the same day a collision occurred on the Mobile & Ohio railroad above Enterprise, Mississippi, damage not known; and on Monday {the 4th} another collision took place on the Mobile & Ohio railroad above Citronella, Alabama. The last was very serious, on train running into the rear end of another, cutting in two a car filled with soldiers, a number of whom were killed and wounded.

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