March 27, 1853
Fatal B&O passenger-train wreck near Rowlesburg
Wiley reports that an Easter Sunday track spread about half a mile west of Rowlesburg sent two passenger cars roughly sixty feet down an embankment, killing nine people and wounding four. Robert Murray was among the dead.
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Wiley, History of Preston County, pp. 514–515
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