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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>February 23,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Wreck Narrowly Averted</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Train No. 11 was delayed at Graham yesterday
for more than an hour by a large rock that slipped from the top of the deep cut
at the furnace and obstructed the track. Tom Leedy, who walked through the
cut just a few minutes before the westbound passenger train was due, saw the
rock fall and hastened to the tower and notified the operator of the obstruction
just in time to catch the passenger train, thus preventing by a close call what
might have proved a very serious wreck. Conductor Moran of the passenger
train stated that the engine would have struck the boulder without a doubt had
the train not been flagged, as the cut is a very deep one and situated in a
stiff curve.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>