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<DIV>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>May 25, 1910</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>IN CITY AND COALFIELD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Dead Dog Stops Train</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The passengers on train No. 11 on the Clinch
Valley received a big scare on Monday afternoon near Cedar Bluff, when the air
brakes were suddenly thrown on and the train came to a standstill.
Passengers jumped from every car to see what was wrong and on investigation by
the train crew it was found that a shepherd dog which had been run over had been
thrown in such a way that an angle cock on the air hose was closed and this
brought the train to the sudden stop.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Closing an angle cock would not cause the brakes to go into
emergency, but there are two other possibilities. The most likely is that
the unfortunate dog could have been thrown up by the engine's pilot and its body
could have <U>opened</U> the angle cock on the front of the engine, which would
cause the brakes to go into emergency, or, less likely, the dog's body could
have somehow hit and uncoupled the air hoses between the tender and the
first car, or between two of the cars, likewise causing the brakes to go into
emergency.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>