Petersburg, Virginia Train Wreck
February 5, 1912
TWELVE INJURED IN WRECK.
Passenger Train Derailed Twenty Miles West of
Pittsburg.
Special to The Washington Post.
Petersburg, Va., Feb. 5. – Twelve persons
were injured, one probably fatally, early this
morning, when eastbound passenger train No. 16
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad was derailed
near Fords Station, 20 miles west of Petersburg.
The seriously injured are:
Unidentified colored man, probably will die.
Layton Moors,
of Lynchburg, Va., left hip broken.
Louis Dallage, of Strong, Pa., cut
and bruised.
J. W. Brown, colored porter, badly
cut on leg and body.
The wreck is said to have been due to an arch
box breaking under the front trucks of the
locomotive’s tender and catching a crossing
plank, which is carried to 104-mile siding,
where the plank caught a frog, derailing tender
and eleven cars.
The Washington Post, Washington DC 6 Feb
1912
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