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Roanoke Times - February 13, 1907

WRECK ON N&W

Freight Train Breaks and Parts Collide Near Basic City.

At Crimora early yesterday morning, a freight train on the Norfolk & 
Western broke and the two parts collided, causing a wreck. Four 
loaded cars were derailed and wrecked.

There was no loss of life but one brakeman, O.W. Ramsey, of Roanoke, 
was badly bruised, though not seriously injured.

The wreck occurred in such an inconvenient place that many hours 
passed before the track was cleared, No. 1, due in Roanoke about 9 
o'clock a.m., was annulled, and No. 13, due about 4 p.m., was delayed 
two hours and a half.



KILLED AT MARTINSVILLE

J.D. Young, Fireman on N. & W., Falls From Moving Train.

The morning passenger train that goes from Roanoke to Winston, 
carried Mr. J.D. Young, fireman, to his death. Near Martinsville, Mr. 
Young, while pulling down coal on the tender was jerked from the 
moving train by a sudden curve in he road, and instantly killed. His 
remains were brought home to his family on the evening train.

Mr. Young leaves a wife and four children who live at 714 Second 
ave., n.w. The time of the funeral has not yet been decided upon.