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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>May 3,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>TOOK JOY RIDE ON GASOLINE CAR</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Man and Three Women Injured Sunday Night Trying to
Outrun Passenger Train</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Three women and one man were injured Sunday
about midnight near Roderfield, while taking a joy ride on one of the Norfolk
and Western gasoline cars which are used by the signal corps. The quartet,
which consisted of a man said to be R. K. Camper, and Florence Christian, Dora
Davis and Rebecca Deskins got on the car after No. 3 passed and then an attempt
was made to have the car keep up with No. 3. Hair and hats flew in every
direction until finally one of the women's dresses caught in a wheel and
everyone pitched forward while the car took a trip over the bank. The man
took to the mountains and disappeared while the women were removed to the
miner's hospital at Welch where one of them was found to be quite badly
injured. Rebecca Deskins was the most seriously hurt, having received a
broken collar bone and internal injuries.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> It appears that the man who took the car, as
far as can be learned, was not in the employ of the company but decided that
since he knew how to operate the car, and the cook, chambermaid and waitress at
the hotel wanted a ride, the best thing he could do was to take them out.
All went on the joy ride, but it had a most unfortunate ending, which will
probably discourage men who know how to operate cars from taking their women
friends out on joy rides.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> As far as is known this is the first time
since the cars were purchased that women who have been riding the cars have been
injured. On several occasions, it is reported, women have gone riding on
the cars, but the railroad officials knew nothing of it. It was reported
here yesterday that a man named Beckner was also in the party which took the
ride.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Taking a joy ride on the busy Pocahontas Division main line
after dark--Duh!</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>