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as full as they could stick with the men the rest were loaded with horses and bagage. The car next to the engine was loaded with wood, then the human freight then came the horses etc, and clear behind were three cars heavily loaded with Sugar makeing in all a train of twenty cars. As I said before the first car had on wood, the second had on Comp. B. third H 4th G. 5th K 6th I further that that I do not know. We had made seventy two miles just as day light began to dawn upon us we coming round a bend and were emerging from the timber when I heard a shrill whistle which awakened me from a sound sleep, for I was very tired, and slept although cramped in sitting posture. It seemed to me almost instantanious, the whistle and the crash of the engine, against the other train for it had run into the train of the 54th Ind. Their engine had been disabled so that the engineer had to go to Algiers for another and the Conductor had neglected to send out a signal light When I heard the first