N&W in 1903 -- Passenger Train Wreck

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PASSENGER TRAIN NO. 3 WRECKED
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    Passenger train No. 3 was wrecked about one and a half miles west of Wilmore [Near Iaeger, WV] Thursday night, and that there were not numerous  fatalities can only be attributed to a special dispensation of Providence.  The train was running at the rate of probably thirty-five miles an hour when it struck a huge tree which had fallen across the track.  The engine, No. 963 [Class V1 4-6-0, Richmond 1902], was badly damaged, and the front of the mail car was torn to pieces [Probably wood], but strange to say, no one was hurt.  Traffic was delayed about three hours and a half.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 29, 1903

Gordon Hamilton

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