Miraculous Escape
When Freight Train Hit His Ford
While crossing the Norfolk Southern Rail Road tracks on
Parsonage Street, a Ford truck driving by Ellwood Weatherly of the firm of W.H.
Weatherly & Company, was run down by a Norfolk Southern freight train. The
collision was so sudden and unexpected that Mr. Weatherly found himself pinned in
the truck before he could jump. The truck was carried several hundred yards by
the moving freight and reduced to a complete wreck, with Mr. Weatherly
entangled in it. And he escaped with a few bruises and some minor scratches
about the face. A Negro on the rear of the truck saved himself by jumping when
the train struck.
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