N&W in 1904 - Accident on Clinch Valley

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Five Colored Men Slightly Hurt

A passenger train running extra from Norton to Bluefield, on the Clinch Valley division, crashed into the rear of an eastbound freight Sunday afternoon. The cab of the freight was badly smashed up and five colored men who were riding in it sustained slight injuries.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 14, 1904

[It makes you wonder why five men were in the cab.]

Gordon Hamilton
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