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Title
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Unnamed Mississippi Engineer - MS-ENG1
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Identifier
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MS-ENG1
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Subject
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African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans
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Source
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"Mississippi, Wilkinson County Newspaper Slave Ads, 1823-1849"
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Date
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December 28, 1840
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Trade
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Engineer
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gender
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Male
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Notes
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Described as assistant of Mr. Brown, an engineer on a train; In "McCarstle to Saunders", page 177
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Transcription
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Vicksburg, Mi. December 28, 1840 Rail Road Accident— A dreadful accident occured on the Vicksburg and Jackson Railroad last Thursday evening which resulted in the death of Mr. Brown the engineer, and a negro assistant, besides scalding a fire-man, whose name we have not yet learned. The cars were on the return trip to this city, and when near Bolton's depot about 30 miles distant, the locomotive sud-denly cam in contact with a cow which was directly on the track. The cow was knocked down, and the wheels passing over her body, and it was thrown off the track, and over an embankment about 4 feet high. Mr. Brown, the engineer, was thrown under the locomotive and crushed to death almost instantly. The negro who was attending the engine, was carried over with it and by the breaking of the conneciton pipe, nearly all the water in the boiler was poured out upon him, scalding him in so shocking a manner as to cause his death in a very short time. A white man was also severely scalded in the same manner but is it thought he will recover. January 9, 1841
