Miami Union

July 28, 1866 

JOHNSTON, WM. (WILLIAM) - Wm. Johnston, a brakeman on the Local Freight of the Col. & Ind. Central Railway, which left this city on Monday morning last at 5 o'clock for Columbus, while going through the bridge between St. Paris and Westville, was knocked off the top of a car and killed.  His remains were taken to Columbus for interment.

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