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Railroad accident.

--A correspondent of the Petersburg Express, writing from Battleboro', N. C., Nov. 23, has the following relative to an accident which occurred near that place on the morning of the 23d:

As the regular express train on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, which left the former place at 2 ½ A. M., was approaching this station, it encountered a wagon drawn by a mule and a horse, while the latter was crossing at the cut just one hundred yards south of the depot. The wagon was struck near the middle and knocked into fragments. The driver, a stupid looking negro boy, was hurled violently into a ditch near by, and a son of Mr. Archibald Braswell, to whom the team belongs, was thrown out, and, falling upon his face, sustained a severe cut on the and it is upposed very severe in juries which may provaserions, if they do One of ...

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