NP, SW 3/5/1862

From the Southern Watchman (Athens, Ga.)
 
March 5, 1862
 
   The very heavy rains at Murfreesboro,' Tenn., on Saturday last, did great damage to the railroad bridges in that vicinity. Two bridges between that place and Nashville were washed away {Nashville & Chattanooga RR}, and one on the Decatur road, about twelve miles from Nashville was also destroyed {Tennessee & Alabama RR}. These disasters lost us two or three fine locomotives and some twenty or thirty freight and passenger cars that were at the time on the other side of the bridges. About four miles this side of Murfreesboro {Nashville & Chattanooga RR},' the bridge over Rock River fell while a passenger train bound South was crossing it, instantly killing Lt. Col. Johnson, a brother of Senator Johnson, of Ark., and wounding several passengers, some of them quite severely. The escape of any of the passengers in the first two cars, which were precipitated in the river and nearly demolished, was indeed miraculous.
Atlanta Confederacy.

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