September 16,1854 Alexandria Gazette V&T wreck story

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>From those REALLY thrilling days of Yesteryear


We learn from the Lynchburg, Virginian, that a serious
accident occurred on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
last Wednesday morning, above Big Spring Depot. The
downward freight train, in passing the trestle work,
came in contact with three dirt cars which had been
negligently left on the track, and the engine was
throen off, detached from train, and precipitated some
sixty feet over the embankment. The engineer succeeded
in leaping from from the engine to one of the freight
cars; but the conductor, Mr. Conner, and the fireman,
a free negro went down with it. The latter was killed
instantly, and the conductor severely, perhaps fatally
injured. The engine is said to be a perfect wreck.

Alexandria Gazette, Saturday, September 16,1854


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