Monday, August 27, 2012

From Louisville


LOUISVILLE, March 18. – Yesterday morning the train for Bowling Green to Nashville was intercepted at Gallatin by a party of rebel cavalry under the notorious Captain John Morgan who ran the train off the track and took prisoner about thirty bridge builders employed to erect a bridge over the Cumberland river.

A locomotive of the Memphis branch of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad exploded at Russelville depot yesterday, killing the engineer, conductor, porter and a brakeman.  This closes communication on the branch for the present.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 3

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