| From the Nashville Union and American |
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| February 17, 1861 |
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| Railroad Disaster |
| We learn from Mr. Wm. H.
Wiley, through express messenger to Chattanooga, over the Memphis &
Charleston railroad, who arrived here last evening, that the recent
heavy rains along the line of the Tennessee & Virginia road, had caused
extensive landslides on the track, preventing the passage of the through
trains. It was reported that a huge rock, some thirty feet in length,
had rolled upon the track. The express train due this city at 10 o'clock
yesterday {Nashville & Chattanooga RR}, did
not arrive until 5 o'clock last evening. The detention was occasioned by
the giving way of the trestle over Cross Hollow, on Wednesday last,
letting three cars of a heavily ladened freight train into a chasm some
sixty feet deep, badly smashing them. Fortunately no person was injured.
The break will doubtless be speedily repaired, and trains running over
as usual |
| Memphis Enquirer, Feb. 15 |
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