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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>July 10,
1909</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>ENGINEER BADLY SCALDED</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Albert Francisco's Injuries Extremely Painful but Not
Necessarily Fatal</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Albert Francisco, a Norfolk and Western
engineer was badly scalded about noon yesterday at Wilcoe on the Tug River
branch [<EM>sic</EM>]. He was backing his engine when it sideswiped the
caboose of a freight which had failed to clear. The cab of his engine was
caught on the rear car of the freight and torn off, breading some of the steam
pipes. Mr. Francisco was badly scalded about the arms, head and
back. He was brought to the Bluefield Sanatorium last night, and while his
injuries are extremely painful, the hospital staff does not think they are
necessarily fatal.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>I have attached a copy from the microfilm of the two
headlines and the first two lines of the above article to show an extreme, but
no means rare, example of the poor quality that challenges a correct
transcription of the article. Some other articles are quite clear.
The quality not only varies from page to page, but from one place on a page to
another place on the same page.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT><BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>