NP, RD 12/9C/1861

From the Richmond Daily Dispatch
 
December 9, 1861
  
Railroad accident
   The train on the {Memphis &} Charleston railroad, due at one o'clock yesterday. not get in till after 8 o'clock, The delay was occasioned by the failing off the train of a young man, name not recollected, who got on at the Grand Junction. He fell off just as the train was passing over trestle north at La Grange, breaking his arm in two places, bruising and cutting his head, and otherwise seriously injuring his person. He was a student at Legrange, and was not expected to recover.
Memphis Avalanche, of the 3d.

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