Virginian in 1910--Crash

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                       In my day this is what we called "Short Flagging".

                                                       HB Lyon

At 01:46 PM 1/3/2010, you wrote:


>

>EXCURSION TRAIN CRASHES INTO FREIGHT

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>Loaded With Negroes Bound From Princeton to Roanoke--No One Injured

>     Roanoke, Va., July 23. (Special)--A negro [sic] excursion train 

> on the Virginian railway [sic], bound from Princeton, W. Va., to 

> Roanoke, ran into a freight train on a curve near Salem this 

> evening.  No body [sic] was injured and no damage was done except 

> the derailing of the engine and the smashing of the caboose of the freight.

>------

>Gordon Hamilton

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