NP, CW 9/22/1862

From the Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N. C.)
 
September 22, 1862
  
A Frightful Accident
   We are pained to learn that as the Hon. Wm. S. Ashe, President of the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad, was passing up the road towards his residence a few miles this side of Wilmington on a hand car, on Friday evening last about dark, he was met by the regular mail train from Goldsborough. Two others on the car jumped off and escaped injury, but Mr. Ashe was thrown forward on the track, and dreadfully mangled. He died, we understand, on Sunday evening.
Hillsborough Recorder

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