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Lafayette Journal and Courier
Thursday, 26 August, 1869

         A sad and fatal accident occurred on the Jacksonville
       railroad near Marshfield, by which a worthy and excellent
       young man, named ALEXANDER VANZANT, suddenly lost his life.
       When the freight train bound north was near Marshfield
       Station, the whistle was sounded to put on the brakes. By
       some means or other, and unknown to any one on the train,
       the cars had become uncoupled, and the car upon which MR.
       VANZANT was breaking was some little distance from the
       one ahead of it, and in attempting to step from one to
       the other, he fell to the track below, five heavily laden
       cars passing over his body.
       
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