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town and at tbe train-One shell fell in one of the passenger cars, killing two persons instantly, and »eriously wounding a third. The town, having been evaluated by the inhabitant is, no doubt, in the'possession of the enemy.—-iSar. Rtpnblican ]Terrible Raiiroud Aecideat—Sctcmij « Eighty Hilled aad Wounded.*By the arrival of passengers at Mobile wc learn that a collision took place on Thursday last on the New Oileaus, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad near Ponchula, between the passenger up tiain tilled with Mississippi soldiers, and a down train laden with lumber. It appea.s that the engineer of the passenger train sawthefreght train and reversed h seugine, and ..mt wan, backing, but the lumber tn ia came on at full speed completely smashing up the lirst and third car, the second not suffering much damage killing instantly over thirty persons, and wounding betwei n forty and filty others. The scene is di£» cribed as being most horrible. The bodies were litterally smashed into a jelly.The Uablgren Rides, from Pike county, suffered most. It is thought that not more than twenty-five of their company escaped. 1 he Quitman Rifles also suffered very severely. It is positively stated that it was a premeditated act on the part of the engineers of the lumber train. It is said that just before the trains struck he put on all steam and jumped off and ran for the wopds. The conductor, as soon as he could do so, also jumped off and followed him, with pistol in hand to shoot him, but at last accounts he had not been caught, but we hear that he is being followed up with docs.
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Milledgeville Southern Federal Union
Milledgeville, Georgia, US
Tue, Mar 18, 1862
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