N&W in 1907 -- Saved Train

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Boy Saved Train No. 4 From Wreck
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    At Oakvale Tuesday a twelve-year-old boy, Foster Wright, son of a farmer, saved No. 4, eastbound Norfolk and Western passenger train, from being wrecked.  The boy, while on the opposite side of East river, saw a big boulder on the track.  He waded across the stream with the water up to his neck and stopped the train by waving a red bandana handkerchief.  The rock had fallen from the bluff, and six men were required to get it off the track.
    Conductor Mastin gave the boy all his loose change, and on his arrival in Roanoke he reported the facts to the general offices.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
May 9, 1907

Gordon Hamilton
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