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Smoking accident

--A man named Conwell, a soldier from Northampton county, N. C, was killed yesterday on the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad. He attempted to get on the train while it was in motion, when his foot slipped and he fell, the wheel crushing his head beneath it. The deceased leaves a wife and six children, and was on his return from a visit home when he met his death. The accident occurred at Suffolk--Portsmouth Transcript, 24th.

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