N&W in 1910--Near wreck

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
February 23, 1910

THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS
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Wreck Narrowly Averted

    Train No. 11 was delayed at Graham yesterday for more than an hour by a large rock that slipped from the top of the deep cut at the furnace and obstructed the track.  Tom Leedy, who walked through the cut just a few minutes before the westbound passenger train was due, saw the rock fall and hastened to the tower and notified the operator of the obstruction just in time to catch the passenger train, thus preventing by a close call what might have proved a very serious wreck.  Conductor Moran of the passenger train stated that the engine would have struck the boulder without a doubt had the train not been flagged, as the cut is a very deep one and situated in a stiff curve.
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Gordon Hamilton 
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