N&W in 1910--Funny wreck

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 20, 1910

SAW FUNNY WRECK
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Young Man From Georgia Not Used to Seeing Big Mallet Engines

    The following strange but true story is told of a young man who recently came to this city from Georgia on a visit.  The young man in company with the friend he was visiting passed along Princeton avenue, near the Mercer street bridge, when he suddenly noticed one of the big Norfolk and Western Mallet engines.  The young man looked at it for about two minutes but never said a word.  That night at the supper table he said at a dull moment that he had seen the funniest wreck up street he had ever seen.  When questioned about it he said he saw two engines which had run together so hard that they were jammed together in such a way that they looked like one engine.  When the story of the Mallet engine was told to him he would hardly believe it possible.  The Norfolk and Western has the largest engines of any southern road and until a short time ago was the only southern road except the Virginian to own a Mallet.  Recently the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio has purchased some of the engines which are of a smaller type than the Norfolk and Western engines.
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Gordon Hamilton
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