| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| August 23, 1861 |
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| Lynchburg, Aug. 21, 1861 |
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| Two heavy land-slides,
occasioned by the recent rain, have taken place on the Virginia &
Tennessee Railroad, in the vicinity of
Big Lick, Roanoke
City; consequently, we have had no train from the West since Monday
morning. The slides are about nine miles apart; hence, freight
communication will be cut off for some time. There is a train of cars
on the other side of the slides, and the mails will be transported by
wagons over the damaged part of the road, and the cars will still
continue to connect there by this means. |
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| A collision occurred last
Monday, on the East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad, between a troop train
and the express mail train, in which one soldier was instantly killed
and some 15 or 20 wounded. I could not ascertain where the soldiers
were from. |
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