Virginian in 1910--Crash

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
July 24, 1910

EXCURSION TRAIN CRASHES INTO FREIGHT
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Loaded With Negroes Bound From Princeton to Roanoke--No One Injured
    Roanoke, Va., July 23. (Special)--A negro [sic] excursion train on the Virginian railway [sic], bound from Princeton, W. Va., to Roanoke, ran into a freight train on a curve near Salem this evening.  No body [sic] was injured and no damage was done except the derailing of the engine and the smashing of the caboose of the freight.
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Gordon Hamilton
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