Wayne County NcArchives News.....Serious Accident September 28, 1872
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Charleston Daily News September 28, 1872
Serious Accident on the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad

Three cars of the down express train on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad ran 
off the track between Everettsville and Dudley last night. The ladies' car and 
sleeping car were precipitated down an embankment and the former was turned 
upside down. A considerable number of passengers were slightly and two or three 
were severely injured, but none were dangerously hurt.

Mrs. M. A. Walker of Montgomery, Ala. was severely bruised about the body; Mr. 
Chambers of New Orleans was painfully hurt in the head and back; Mr. W. H. Chew 
of Augusta, Georgia had an ankle badly sprained and his wife received a sever 
contusion on the forehead.

The most severely wounded are here and the physicians express the opinion that 
all will soon recover. The accident is supposed to have been caused by a broken 
rail and the absence of fatal results is considered almost miraculous. The 
sleeping car fell over a trestle work about twenty feet into the stream below.


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