Virginian in 1910-Wreck

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
May 19, 1910

WRECK ON VIRGINIAN
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Dynamite May Have to be Used to Get Cars From Tunnel

    A Virginian coal train of seventy-five cars was wrecked in the tunnel at Ingleside yesterday morning at 7:30 and as a result no trains were able to pass over the line at that point all day long.  It is expected that the wreck will be cleared up sometime before noon today.  A number of cars were piled in the western mouth of the tunnel when a car jumped the track.  About half of the train had gone through at that time and in addition to those cars which were overturned a number left the track completely tieing [sic] up traffic.  A derrick car was sent for to Victoria as it was found that the derrick on the western end of the road could not work to advantage from the western side of the tunnel.  No one was injured.  It may be necessary to resort to dynamite to get the cars out.
    Traffic will be tied up for at least thirty hours.  Two other small wrecks on the road delayed passenger trains also during the day.
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Gordon Hamilton
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