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Train Accident July 31, 1885

The Cambria Freeman., July 31, 1885

 At Suwanee, Georgia on Monday on the Richmond and Danville, Railroad, a ditch train ran over a cow, throwing one car from the track. In the car were fiftenn negro tain hands and six bars of iron. The car turned on its side and the iron fell upon the negros, killing seven and woulded three more. The track has been cleared.

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