N&W in 1911--Trespasser

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 14, 1911

    THOUGHT SLEEPER WAS DEAD AND FLAGGED FLYER
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Train No. 4 Stopped Near Chillicothe By Peculiar Occurrence
        Discovering a negro [sic] asleep on the N. & W. tracks above Chillicothe and train No. 4 due within a few minutes, some tall hustling was done to get a lantern to flag the flyer.  The two men who found the negro making a bed of the tracks thought he was dead, and fearing to remove the body, flagged the train.  When it came to a dead stop the pilot of the engine was within a foot of the man's head.
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Gordon Hamilton
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