NP, NUA 2/17/1861

From the Nashville Union and American
 
February 17, 1861
 
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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