A most deplorable accident occurred on the Memphis and Charleston railroad last Thursday night a few miles east of Corinth, by which six persons were killed, one mortally wounded, and several others seriously injured. It seems that the passenger train was behind time, and its conductor, Mr. SLATER, endeavored to reach Corinth before the eastward bound freight train left that station; and the conductor of the latter train thinking that the former one would lay over at the next switch, started on his journey. When rounding a curve the two trains met. The collision was terrible as both were thundering along at schedule time. The locomotives, tenders, and baggage cars were smashed to pieces, and all that was of a combustible nature about them ignited and was utterly destroyed, together with the mails, express freight and baggage. The persons injured or killed, were railroad employees. None of the passengers, we learn, were injured. Conductor SLATER had both his legs broken and was otherwise injured. His life is despaired of. Among the killed was the baggage master, whose name, together with that of the other unfortunates, we have been unable to ascertain. All of the baggage belonging to the passengers was consumed.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 01 Dec. 1866, Page 2. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.