Train Ran Into A Landslide

Article taken from The Cambridge Jeffersonian, January 19, 1905

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     Portsmouth. O., Han. 13.-- An extra freight on the Big Sandy division of the Norfolk and Western Railway ran into a landslide near Webb, east of  here, while going at the rate of 20 miles an hour.  The engine was over turned and it was over three hours before Richard Hannan and Herbert Smith could be extricated.  Hannan was dead and Smith seriously injured John Mead another employee of the road was injured.