A Narrow Escape

 New Hampshire Sentinel - September 22, 1864 – An Accident and Narrow Escape. 
As Mrs. Dr. Ingersoll and daughter were returning from a visit in Massachusetts,
and were about to cross the railway track on a bridge built over it, in Troy, on Wednesday afternoon, of last week, the approach of a freight train of cars so frightened the horse, that he suddenly turned and threw the carriage down the embankment, breaking it in pieces, and bruising and otherwise injuring the ladies in it.  Miss Ingersoll had one of her ribs broken, her head considerably cut and bruised, and was taken up senseless, by the neighbors, by whom she and her mother were kindly cared for.  They are now at their home in Keene, and doing well.  Mrs. Ingersoll is about house; but her daughter is confined to bed, and suffers intense pain whenever she moves.  She will, however, recover in time, with the careful attention she is receiving.  It is almost a miracle how they escaped with their lives; so violent was the motion of the carriage in its overturning down the embankment.