| From the Southern Watchman (Athens,
Ga.) |
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| March 5, 1862 |
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| The very heavy rains at
Murfreesboro,' Tenn., on Saturday last, did great damage to the
railroad bridges in that vicinity. Two bridges between that place and
Nashville were washed away {Nashville &
Chattanooga RR}, and one on the Decatur road, about twelve
miles from Nashville was also destroyed {Tennessee
& Alabama RR}. These disasters lost us two or three fine
locomotives and some twenty or thirty freight and passenger cars that
were at the time on the other side of the bridges. About four miles
this side of Murfreesboro {Nashville &
Chattanooga RR},' the bridge over Rock River fell while a
passenger train bound South was crossing it, instantly killing Lt.
Col. Johnson, a brother of Senator Johnson, of Ark., and wounding
several passengers, some of them quite severely. The escape of any of
the passengers in the first two cars, which were precipitated in the
river and nearly demolished, was indeed miraculous. |
| Atlanta Confederacy. |
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