Negro Soldier Shoots Guerrilla
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FEBRUARY 20, 1864.] HARPER'S WEEKLY. 117 RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN KENTUCKY.RAILROAD ACCIDENT.WE represent, through a sketch from one of our special artists, A SCENE ON BOARD A RAILROAD CAR at the time of the late accident on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, near Lebanon Junction. The principal cause of most of these accidents has been the effect of intensely cold weather on the iron rails, which, becoming filled with frost, are made brittle and easily broken. Says our correspondent: "A leading railroad man said to me a short time since, 'You do not see any railroad men on the cars in this weather unless it is absolutely unavoidable.'" In case of accidents arising from the above cause there is unusual confusion on board. In addition to the chances of being hurled down some steep embankment there is the havoc made in the floor by the torn-up rails breaking through into the car, while the helpless passengers are jostled from one side of the car to the other. No one can realize the position except by actual experience.
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DEATH OF GUERRILLA
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