NP, NODC 1/28/1861

From the New Orleans Daily Crescent
 
January 28, 1861
 
Collision
   From the Algiers Newsboy of Saturday we clip the following:
Fatal Accident {though no fatalities are mentioned}
   The freight barge of the New Orleans, Opelousas & Great Western Railroad was run into by a steamer coming up the river, while she was lying at her landing at Algiers, and her deck load of molasses, some 400 or 500 barrels, were knocked overboard.
   The boat which caused the above accident, we learn, was the towboat Globe, and it was the result of gross carelessness on the part of her officers. The barge of the Opelousas Railroad was lying snugly moored at her landing. The owners of the Globe are undoubtedly liable for damages, and should be mulcted heavily.

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