This looks like it is probably the "tidbit" Sandy posted. Got it at NewspaperArchive.com. Shawn Burks ===================== The Ohio Democrat New Philadelphis, OH Jan. 1, 1873 Another Accident Louisville, Dec. 27 -- The passenger train which left here on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad about midnight last night, struck a broken rail near Glasgow Junction, 75 miles from the city, about 4 o'clock this morning. The engine passed over safely, but the rest of the train, consisting of a baggage car, a sleeping car and two passenger cars, after running a short distance on the ties, plunged down an embankment 15 feet. All the cars turned over, and were considerably damaged. The baggage, mail and express matter took fire almost immediately, but the flames were prevented from spreading by the exertions of the train hands and passengers. The express messenger - Mr. King, was pulled from under the burning baggage. All the passengers got out of the cars, except Peter Fox of this city, who was jammed in the wreck and had to be cut out. His leg was so badley crushed that it had to be amputated, and it is reported he will die. None of the rest of the passengers, numbering about thirty, were dangerously injured, though most of them received severe bruises. ======================== Daily Kennebec Journal Augusta, Maine Dec. 28, 1872 Fifteen persons were injured by the accident on the Nashville railroad this forenoon, three seriously. Little reliable information has yet been received in regard to the disaster on the Nashville Railroad. It occurred between Glasgow Junction and Cove (Cave?) City, about 80 miles from Louisville. It is now reported that four or five passengers were killed. A dispatch reports the amputation of a leg of Peter Fox, one of the injured passengers. **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489