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<DIV>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>June 22, 1910</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>PASSENGER TRAIN ON VIRGINIAN WRECKED</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Baggage Car, Two Crowded Day Coaches and Club Car
Derailed But No One Was Injured</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Train No. 13 on the Virginian Railway was
wrecked yesterday morning between Eggleston and Pembroke, the tender of the
engine, one baggage car, two day coaches and the club car being thrown from the
track. The coaches and the baggage car were derailed in such a manner that
they lay against the bank. The entire train was well filled with
passengers on their way to Roanoke to attend the ball game.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> How they came to go through the wreck without
serious injuries is a mystery but up to late in the afternoon no one was
reported hurt, although a number were badly frightened when the cars left the
track and turned on their side.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> A message from the division offices of the
company at Princeton yesterday said that no one was injured. The
superintendent's office claimed that it did not have a report of the number of
passengers on the train when the wreck occurred. The office also claimed
that the club car was not completely overturned, only the front trucks having
left the track.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Wreck trains were sent from Princeton to the
scene of the accident but up to a late hour yesterday afternoon the cars had not
been gotten back so that they could go ahead. Passengers were transferred
so that could go ahead. Passengers were transferred so that they might
continue their trips.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The chief clerk to the superintendent said
yesterday afternoon that the cause of the wreck had not been determined but
judging from the lay of the cars it was most likely either a broken flange or a
spread rail. This is the second passenger wreck the road has had within a
few weeks, and strange to say, in both cases no one was seriously injured.
Passengers on No. 1 on the Norfolk and Western who passed the scene of the
Virginian wreck about 11:30 yesterday morning claimed that all the cars had
overturned except the engine. The Virginian runs on the opposite side of
the river from the Norfolk and Western where the wreck occurred.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>