N&W in 19090--Wreck

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This should be the trestle collapse over Big Shimer Creek west of Peebles
about one mile.  By 1917 the entire trestle had been filled in and the creek
diverted through a large concrete culvert.  After the trestle was filled in,
the fill was widened a bit and the track curvature reduced through that
area.  

Gary Rolih

Cincinnati

 

 

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Peebles is lat. 38 degrees 56' 05"

 

Portsmouth is lat. 36 degrees 45' 14"

 

As the reporter saw it, going from Peebles to Portsmouth would be southbound
wouldn't it?

 

Gordon Hamilton

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Southbound freight?  On the Cincinnati District?

 

Wow!

 

EdK

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
July 28, 1909

 

BLUEFIELD MAN KILLED IN WRECK

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Remains of J. D. Norton, Brakeman, Will be Brought Here Today for Burial

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FATHER MET SIMILAR DEATH FEW WEEKS AGO

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Smash-up at Peebles on Scioto Division Tears Down Eight Bents of Bridge and
Thirty-five Cars Leave the Track

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GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT GOES TO SCENE TO INVESTIGATE

 

    An accident occurred on the Scioto Division of the Norfolk and Western
yesterday morning at 8:30 near Peebles, Ohio, which resulted in the instant
death of J. D. Norton, a brakeman residing in Bluefield and the wrecking of
35 cars.

    The definite cause of the wreck has not been stated by the local
officials of the company, but the matter is under investigation.  For some
reason or other the train, which was a southbound freight, jumped the track
on a bridge over a small stream, tearing down eight bents of the bridge and
badly wrecking the cars.

    General Superintendent George P. Johnston left at noon yesterday on a
special train to investigate the trouble and take charge of repairing the
damage.

    Mr. Norton was a married man, twenty-nine years old, and the son of J.
D. Norton who was killed a few weeks ago at the Norfolk and Western
passenger station while attempting to alight from a moving train.  The
remains will be brought to Bluefield for burial.

    According to the reports received at the local division office no one
else was injured.  The damage to the bridge and the rolling stock, however,
was considerable, and it will take some time to complete the repairs.  The
telegraph wires were torn down on the bridge, and only a meager report of
the wreck was received yesterday morning.  This did not indicate that so
much damage was done.  Later reports gave fuller details.  Peebles is a
small place thirty-six miles north of Portsmouth, Ohio.

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Gordon Hamilton


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