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The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Railroad disasters. (search)
Railroad disasters. A terrible accident occurred on the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad, on the 27th ult. It seems that a lumber train, going down, collided with a passenger train, on board of which was the 7th Mississippi regiment, Col. Goode, en route for Columbus, killing twenty- five, and severely wounding twenty-six more. The company which sustained the greatest loss was from Amite co., Miss. The engineer of the lumber train, by whose negligence the accident occurred, has not been seen since the collision took place.--The N. O. True Delta says: The collision itself would be impossible to describe, so unexpected was it, and so fearful in its might. The lumber train may have been going at the rate of about fifteen miles an hour, and the soldier train about twenty. The first being heavier and more solid, was comparatively uninjured, except the engine; but the first and second passenger cars, crushing into each other, made an awful wreck, and piled up dead men and dy