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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Bookman Old Style">This raises a number of thoughts and
questions for me.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Bookman Old Style">Negligence of watching the water
gauge glass seems more the cause rather that a tender full or empty of
water.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Bookman Old Style">If the tender was empty, seems that
the crew should droped the fires?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Bookman Old Style">Could the tender have been leaking
in excess, unbe known to the crew, even so, back to the guage glass
negligence.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Bookman Old Style">It would have been very unlikely that
both glasses ( Fireman side and engineer side) would have been clogged with
sediment?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Bookman Old Style">Was there not a periodically required
blow down for these glasses?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Bookman Old Style">The engineer must have had a fore
warning to escape a crown sheet failure.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Bookman Old Style">Gene Arnold</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Bookman Old Style">Gloucester, Va.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November 15, 2009 8:21
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> N&W in 1910--Explosion</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>May 24,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>ENGINE BLOWS UP, KILLING FIREMAN
CARVER</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Brakeman Smith Seriously Scalded in Disaster Near
Oakvale Early This Morning </STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Engine No. 484 blew up this morning shortly
after 2 o'clock, killing Fireman H. H. Carver and seriously scalding Brakeman
Smith, whose initials could not be learned. Engineer McGhee, who was
driving the engine was not injured.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The crown sheet of the engine blew out
while the train was coming west about a mile east of Oakvale. No details
could be learned here, as the wreck occurred on the Radford division, the
headquarters for which are Roanoke.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Dr. St. Clair and a number of men were sent
to the scene of the accident at 3:15 on a special train. The dead man
will be brought to this city and the burns of the injured brakeman will be
tended to.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> It is not known what caused the accident,
as the engine must have taken water at Blake, a tank nearby.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The engineer and fireman, as well as the
brakeman, are not known here and the only person who could give any
information on the subject was the secretary of the railroad Y. M. C. A., who
was not sure of the brakeman's initials.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>It is difficult to understand how the engineer escaped
injury in a boiler explosion. Also, Blake is west of Oakvale so a
westbound train likely would not have taken water at Blake before the
explosion. An article in the newspaper the next day gave the location of
the explosion as east of Ada, which is west of Blake, so the westbound
train could have taken water at Blake before the explosion.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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