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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Suffolk. (search)
distance this side of Coalfield station. 13 miles from the city, going at its usual speed, when two of the rear passenger cars tumbled over a steep embankment and relied to the bottom, carrying their living freight with them. By the casualty, Mr. Bowden, of Denville, and a brakesman, a slave named Albert, lost their lives, while eight or ten were reported to be seriously wounded, and twenty-four of the passengers were found to be slightly ac.--When the passengers had been extricated from the c on the rails, and were harried down an embankment about forty feet high. The cars turned over once or twice before the bottom was reached. None of the lady passengers were injured. A Mr. Keeling, of Denville, was reported dangerously hurt. Mr. Bowden, who was killed, was standing on the platform, His head was crushed, and he died instantly. He was on his way to this city to meet his mother. The escape of a large number from death is considered providential, when the nature of the accident