September 16,1854 Alexandria Gazette V&T wreck story

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I assume that is the Big Spring that we now know as Elliston, at the foot of 
the Christiansburg grade.

Sam Putney

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> >From those REALLY thrilling days of Yesteryear

>

> We learn from the Lynchburg, Virginian, that a serious

> accident occurred on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

> last Wednesday morning, above Big Spring Depot. The

> downward freight train, in passing the trestle work,

> came in contact with three dirt cars which had been

> negligently left on the track, and the engine was

> throen off, detached from train, and precipitated some

> sixty feet over the embankment. The engineer succeeded

> in leaping from from the engine to one of the freight

> cars; but the conductor, Mr. Conner, and the fireman,

> a free negro went down with it. The latter was killed

> instantly, and the conductor severely, perhaps fatally

> injured. The engine is said to be a perfect wreck.

>

> Alexandria Gazette, Saturday, September 16,1854

>

>

> 

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