"Dispatcher's Fault"

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Bruce

Best guess.

Wrecked Extra 878 and Extra 849 head end collision at Davy, WV on March 
3, 1902.

Jim Blackstock

On 10/2/2014 2:33 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:
> I've been mining the on-line newspaper archives available from the
> Library of Virginia at http://virginiachronicle.com for information
> about various things at Virginia Tech, I ran across this short item,
> but have no other details since the on-line accident reports don't
> start until 1911.
>
> TRAIN DISPATCHER'S FAULT.
>
> The Engine Crews Saved Their Lives by Jumping, But Conductor Caught
>
> (Special Dispatch to The Times.)
>
> BLUEFIELD, W. VA., March 3.— There was a head-on collision this
> morning near Davy. The telegraph operator at Vivian, it is said,
> failed to deliver an order. The crew on both engines jumped and all
> escaped excepted Conductor Harris, who was slightly injured, and C. H.
> Williams, fireman, who was severely injured. He was taken from under
> an upturned car, and was found to have sustained a serious injury to
> the knee joint, the ligaments being torn and the knee joint forced
> backward.
>
> He is also hurt inwardly and is expected to die.
>
> ------------------
> The Times, Richmond, Volume 17, Number 21, 4 March 1902, pg. 5
>
>
> Bruce in Blacksburg
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