Mobile Register

July 9, 1861

Page 1

THE LATE COLLISION ON THE MOBILE AND OHIO RAILROAD�The company on the train which was broken up by the recent collision, was the Thompson Cavalry, from Oxford, Miss.� The Oxford Mercury says:

The first car, containing Capt. Bowles and twenty-five of his men, was the only one injured, and among the boys the following received injuries; Robert Goodwin, dangerously, and thought fatally, hurt in the abdomen and body; Strickland, of Springdale, left arm broken; Lee and Gill bruised, but not badly.� No one else received any injury worth mentioning.� The horses were badly frightened, but none hurt.� Five broke loose from their cars and made off, but all were got back except one.� On the other train the engineer and conductor sprang from their positions, and as they ran swiftly off it is supposed they were not hurt.� Three or four brakesmen were badly injured, and one is reported to have had an arm broken.� Two horses belonging to army officers in Virginia were killed on that train.� The wounded were left at Dyer�s Station, where they were kindly cared for.

 

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