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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>April 2,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>ENGINEER DEAD AND FIREMAN BADLY HURT</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Five Passengers Injured When Norfolk and Western Train
Was Derailed at Watts Tank</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Engineer John Griffith was killed and Fireman
John Vaughan and five passengers were injured yesterday afternoon at 4:30
o'clock when Norfolk and Western passenger train No. 17 was derailed at Watts
Tank. The engine and tender rolled over the bank while the baggage car and
two coaches were overturned. A deadhead baggage car on the rear of the
train left the track.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The train was running about thirty miles an
hour when the derailment occurred. Engineer John Griffith, who has been
running on their road for the past twenty years, was found decapitated under his
engine while the fireman was seriously injured. At first it was not
thought any passengers were hurt, but a closer examination proved that five
sustained slight injuries. Williamson shop track talk placed the number of
injured at twelve, but this must be slightly exaggerated, as it does not agree
with the reports received at Mr. Spangler's office in Roanoke.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Watts Tank, where the derailment occurred, is
a small station near Dunlow, about fifty miles from Williamson, and the train
which met with the accident runs between Williamson and Portsmouth, leaving
Williamson at 2 o'clock. The train crew make their homes at Portsmouth and
very few particulars could be leaned at Williamson.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Williamson was not able to say who the
injured passengers are, and whether or not any people from Williamson or
surrounding towns were on the train could not be learned here last
night.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The cause of the wreck has not been
determined. Captain McCullough said last night in this city that Engineer
Griffith, who is a single man and forty-eight years of age, was one of the
oldest men in service on the road. He and Captain McCullough ran on the
same train for years and the man was very popular.</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>(By Associated Press)</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Portsmouth, April 1--A Norfolk and Western
local passenger train jumped the track on a curve at Watts, W. Va., forty-five
miles east of Kenova, and was badly wrecked tonight. The engine, baggage
and express cars were turned completely over and a second-class coach was partly
telescoped. John Griffin, of this city, engineer, was found buried beneath
the baggage car. He was decapitated. The fireman was seriously
hurt. A number of passengers were injured.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>This is another example why engineers of that day were
referred to as "the brave engineer." Dunlow was on the Twelve Pole line 46
miles east of Kenova, making it one mile east of Watts Tank (according to the
Watts location given immediately above) and almost exactly mid way between
Williamson and Kenova.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>