Fatal Accident.

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I think if you read the original post, particularly the first line,  
as follows, it will answer your original question. He probably missed  
either train No. 16 as it was the evening train, and stopped at Glade  
Spring. No. 42 did not stop at Glade.

Ken Miller

Roanoke Times - April 23, 1907

STUDENT KILLED BY A TRAIN

   Bristol, Va., April 22, -- George Kelly, nineteen years old, a  
student at Emory and Henry College, was killed Saturday night near  
Emory in an attempt to board a freight train going toward his home at  
Glade Spring.
   Young Kelly had missed the passenger train, and waited for the  
freight. He went to the heavy grade near Dr. Bowyer's home, and when  
the train came, running at an unusually fast rate of speed, he  
attempted to board a car, but was thrown under it. The back of his  
head struck the end of a cross tie with tremendous force.
   Other students who saw him fall rushed to his assistance when the  
train passed and found him dying. He lived only nine minutes after  
the accident, and did not speak before his death.
   The young man was a member of the freshmen class and had the  
reputation of being a good student. He was a member of a well known  
family at Glade Spring.
   The body was taken to the home of Dr. Bowyer, at Emory, Saturday  
night, and later carried to the Byars where it remained until  
yesterday when it was taken to the home at Glade Spring for burial.
   The sad death of young Kelly threw a gloom over the entire college.

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- Roger Link

On Apr 24, 2007, at 1:50 PM, NW Mailing List wrote:


> I am sure someone will  have an answer to my question, but when  

> that 19

> year old college student George Kelly was killed trying to board a  

> freight

> train to his home at Glade Spring because he missed the passenger  

> train,

> exactly which passenger train did he miss?   Bill Sellers.

>

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