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Roanoke Times - February 15, 1907

COLLISION ON YARDS

Freight Crashes Into Rear End of Another

There was a collision between two freight trains in the yards here on 
the Shenandoah Valley division near the gas house yesterday about 
8:30 a.m.  The cab and one box car on the trains were demolished but 
no one was injured and no damage was done to the engine.  It seems 
that one freight train had pulled out and gone around the curve when 
the second started.  For some reason the first train had stopped or 
was going very slow and the second coming out at a considerable rate 
of speed crashed into the rear end.  No one was in the cab at the 
time but the engine crushed through it and into a box car.

The wreckage was soon cleared up and the trains proceeded on to Shenandoah.