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Disaster at Stillhouse Trestle.
Reprint from The Train
Dispatcher with permission.
On Sept. 27, 1903, No• 97, pulled
by engine 1102, left Washington
somewhat late, lost more time
C. Long
But Broady, in his anxiety to make
up time, disregarded those signs and
is estimated to have taken the curve
at full speed. Mountaineers in the
area agreed later that it was
precisely three o'clock that the
According to this own account, ~hd
thought up the words of the ditty
later to become known as "The
Wreck of Old '97," and wrote down
COMMISSION MEETING
The Summers County
Commission will meet at 9:00 a.m.
in the County Commission Office at
the Courthouse on the Second
Monday of the month. In the event
that a holiday falls on a Monday, the
County Commission meeting Will be
moved to the following Tuesday.
The next session of the County
Commission will be held on
Monday, December 14. Co'~tact
Mary Beth Merritt, County Clerk at
466-7121 if you have question~ or if
you have items for the agenda.
He is always the severest den-
sor of the merit of others who
the words that evening when he got has the least worth of his own.
home. He and one of his daughters --Elias Lyman Magoon
because of various delays on the 165- locomotive's whistle let out a wild, set the wbrds to the tune of an old ***
Monday through Friday, or send this coupon to mile portion of the run between piercing shriek, and it was song titled "The Ship that Never "
the address below and we will bill you for your 52 Washington and Monroe, Va., and apparently at that moment that the Returned," and the daughter used ...... . .-..-.= --
flanges of the locomotive wheels let to sing it on numerous occasions. DI~IVEI~. ~jJL)L- ~
week subscription, pulled into Monroe an hour behind go of the rails, and the entire train Twenty-three years later, in 1927, -1 yr. exp. Earn $1,250
time. Monroe was a division point,
where the crew changed. The hurtled down into the gully• So great Dave George was driving a mule + her week. Great
Name __ __
(please print) engineer scheduled to handle the was the speed of the ten-wheeler team through a village in Virginia ..... time
locomotive that she jumped a fulI and heard a phonograph blaring the weeKena home .
train out of Monroe was Joseph A. hundred feet forward from the spot song. He pulled, up the team,Execellent Benefits
Address ____ Broady, nicknamed Steve after the where she left the track, before exclaiming, That s my song!" He ~- n-nuses 100% No
well-publicized Steve Brodie who
Cib/ State _Zip__ had reportedly won a bet several coming to a halt with her nose went into the shack where the ~'~ "" . __~ .....
years before by jumping off the buried in the mud bank of the machine was playing and talked to toucW70% U&rL (,
TEAR & MAILTO: Brooklyn Bridge. Broady had been stream in a cow pasture below, the man who lived there. The 888) -406-9046, i
THE HINTON NEWS working on the Southern only a Another verse of the song gives stranger agreed with Dave that he I-IN March 29-April 5
P. O. BOX 1000 month, having come from the graphic description, as follows: ought to have some money coming
Pocahontas Division of the N&W. "He Was going down the grade to him for having written the song, " -
makin' ninety miles an hour but Dave, now an old man, did not • ...... I
HINTON, WV 25951 Broady's fireman that daywasA. C. VChen the whistle broke into a know how to go about establishing I ~a|n ~treet t..are I
Clapp and a student fireman named scr~:n~ fi a claim. I Certified nursing assistant I
Dodge was in the cab, learning the as ound in the wreck with Later he read in a Richmond, VA., I applications being acc?pted I
Letter to the Ed itor L o t t 6 r~ t o t h o engine and the road• The conductor his hand on the throttle, newspaper that the Victor Talking • ......... :e /
was ThomasBlair and the flagman And a-scalded to death by the Machine Company, maker of the I NO_W_ aC_C~P(L~InYA?2:vAmL /
Introduce You To Editor was S• J• Needy. One verse of the
. | -.=repay dliU rlt:Ull l
T song written after the wreck read, steam. , record, was looking for the composer._ . !
My Husband Rea he "They handed him his ordersat A telegrapher on the Southern s to pay him royalties on it. Davefiled I reslaents '
Danville Division at the time, Tom a claim, along with many other I A small nursing home located
Dear Editor: Artl©le you'reM°nr°e'awayVirginia'behind time.Sayin 'Steve, Acres, reported that those killed persons who wanted to get in on the I on 3rd floor of summers
Hello. ImHeather (Day) Gilbert, This is not Thirty-eight but !t's were engineer Broady, Firemen royalty money, but the Victor | county hospital.
and I wanted to take some time to DearMs. Crawford Old Ninety-seven; You must put er Clapp and Dodge, Conductor Blair, Company gave Dave no satisfaction, 1 ~4=466=6090
six postal clerks and one employee so in 1930 the elderly hillbilly took | ,v--
introduce you to my husband, David When I read the article about in Spencer on time.' of the Southeastern Express Co. the case to court. After a lengthy civil - " ' ~,
From Monroe to Spencer is 166 Seven postal clerks escaped the trial in a Federal District Court, the I LETTERS POLICY I
Gilbert, who is running for Summers student achievement at Summers miles and the train's running time
County Prosecuting Attorney. County High School, and our was four hours and fifteen minutes, wreck with only injuries, and one court decided in March 1933 that I ~ _are welcome, but_no _m_o_re [
I am a Summers County native, "Broad" ranking, I was concerned Broadywas expected to make up as clerk, W. F. Pinkney, escaped David G. George was the original I than o~r each month wi!! be I
accepted from the same writer
the daughter of Dr. Stanley and that the terrible statistics cited must much as he could of the hour-late he ' [ Preference will be given to letters'of t
without a scratch Pinkney was so author of the ballad and ordered the I *ro , the same writer~ I
Betty Day. I met my husband when be wrong
shaken, however, that he went Victor Company to pay Dave I ~~~ger-letters I
we were in college at Bob Jones So I checked the U.S. News had inherited when he took over at directly to his home in Charlotte, royalities on the 5 million records it .1 ~ned-or'°rejecte~i". I"
University. He hails from Upstate website. Sadly, the numbers are as the throttle. Experienced railroaders N.C., and wrote out his resignation, had issued. His share was estimated ~t b esigned an(l must I
NewYork, which boasts beautiful, true as they are appalling. Only 56% of that day said in view of curves,
' mclude an address and phone
observing that one train wreck was to amount to $65,295. But Daves I include an address and photo I
grades and track conditions it could enough to last him for a hfehme, elatmn was short-hved. TheAppea,s [ nu~ephone num~r v~i!, I
rural countryside. David s father of students can read proficiently. • .... , number The telephone number re ill
.... no~ De puollsneo. Letters oy l~-mall
still farms their multi-generation Only 37% are proficient at math. have been utterly impossible to Two Among the hfllbllhes who Court reversed the decmmn, and [ ~~?ss°~o~loma~ [
dairy farm. David's parents are like Worst of all. only 14.9% of graduates have made up an hour on the 4 1/2 gathered at the scene following the Dave's attorney took the case to the ] up with a sight(1 letter• :: l
a second set of parents to me, and are ready to go on to college hour run. Broady was described as
they are wonderful grandparents to In the high schools ranked"Gold" a fast runner and something of a wreck, to assist in the rescue work, Supreme Court, which reversed the [ L~ bee id ted for grammar, [
w an w rker n m e c r spelhng taste syntax, and hbel
as an itiner t o a ed appellat out and sustained the [ spelling, taste, syntax, and libel. [
Names will not be withheld •
our three children. , by U•S. News, the college readiness gambler, and as soon as he finished Dave George. He had reportedly lower court. But the Victor Company I N~~t:i~hht~ds to ~'he I
David is basically agoodol'boy," rate is between 95 and100%. In the reading his orders, he "took off dabbled in various jobs as kept the matter in court and [ ~I~]n~on~ ~[
as my grandpa, John L Wilcox, "Silver" school
• " s, the readiness rate thebridle and let the 1102 romp." brakeman, farmer, boxer and even enmeshed in legal red tape. An [ ~ ............... !!" [
called him. He enjoys hunting, he is in the 80% range. Reading and On the outskirts of Danville, Va.,
teaches Sunday school, and he Math numbers are similar therewas a woodenstructureknown 'revenoo agent." One story had it impasse was finally reached which -:
always works hard to support his West Virginiahadnoschoolsthat as Stillhouse Trestle which carried that he was working as a could only be settled by another r - ,, -- . :
t~leg~aph~r at.the time.ofthewreck, .appeal to the US. Supreme,Cour~, , _ ummers t ounty *r "
.... faraflY: ~:My parents: "7~"::~'~": :have supported*~ :' : our :w°n the"~d'Yaand °alY ff~ff~'atraf2d"silver " .... the~rack-~v~r~herr~tte~Cr~k at .Franklin Junction, ~VA.-(now T!~is was in 1939, and4his,tima, th~
L:,i :iHumane Society/
: : ................................... : ..... : 'Tosay that SCIIS, by being about75 feet below. A combined ,
marrmge from the very start, rate " " "
........ : d Bronze, is amongthe Best curve and descending grade made 'Gretna). Another version had him high court declir~ed to again review ACWP: :
working as town constable at the case ....... is a non refit -rou" of Iocai:
recogn~zmg what an honorable man high schools in America is simply Stillhouse Trestle one of the most Gretna He arrived at the disaster Thus it is that to this day, the . "P- ~ - p . - :
David is I am thankful thatwe were untrue How will we ever ca*ch up if dangerous spots in the White Oak scene while efforts were still being authorship of "Old 97" remains a v°D:~e:rsm:d its h:r:j: n:~t:P:
able to move back to Summers we falsely believe we are already Mountain area On approaches to made to rescue the injured, and mystery, legally speakin~ Y- . - P '~
County four years ago, and we are among the best9 each side of the trestle there were _ . . o. spayea or neuterea or neect ~
reclaim the bodms of the dead
now raising our children in the same Candidates for the Board of signs reading, "Slow Up, Trestle." • assistance with vaccinations.
house where my mother was born
and where I grew up. We have deep
roots in this area, since my family
has lived here most of my life and
my grandparents settled here many
years ago. David and I were married
at Bluestone Baptist Church in 1997
and we're coming up on our 20th
anniversary next year.
I know it's difficult to get to
"know" candidates you haven't met
personally, but I would encourage
you to find out more about David's
job history and his unique
qualifications to serve as Summers
County Prosecuting Attorney on his
Facebook page here: on.fb.me/
1NXbFEZ.
. I would ask that you consider
casting your vote for David Gilbert
this May in the primary election and
again in November, because I know
he will fight hard to ensure our
county will change for the better,
while preserving the traditions that
make us who we are. Not every wife
can campaign whole-heartedly for
her husband, but I stand proudly
behind David, not only because I
respect him so much, but because I
know he will do an outstanding job
as Summers County Prosecuting
• Attorney.
Heather Gilbert
Nimitz
Notice
COMMUNITY SUPPORT
The Hinton Lions Club is asking
for the Communities support in
helping to provide those who need,
eye examinations or eye glasses.
The Hinton Lions have been
providing assistance for over 18
years and are asking community
organizations and businesses as well
as citizens for monetary donations
to continue providing help to those
in need in our community. As news
spreads of the help being provided,
requests are now outnumbering the
Lions Club's ability to help.
Once a request is received, the
individual's application is screened
to insure that other avenues of
assistance are pursued before the
Lions Club provides help.
Donations can be mailed to: Lions
Club, Sight Assistance Program,
P.O. B~x~1321, Hinton, WV 25951.
Checks s)muld be made out to:
Hinton Lions Club.
Education should have specific plans
to raise the SCHS college readiness
rate to at least 80%. There needs to
be an emphasis on STEM subjects,
which require a fact-based
educational system, not one based
on ideology. Sincerly,
Andrew Maier, Esq
Hinton
BINGO
Bingo every Friday night at the
Hinton Senior Citizens Building on
Second Ave. Doors open at 4:00 p.m.
starts at 6:00 p.m.
HEALTH SCREENING
Women's Health Screenings
available. Attention: Women ages
25-64. If you are uninsured or
underinsured you may be eligible for
pap smear and mammogram (age
restrictions for mammograms do
apply) through the WV Breast and
Cervical Screening Program. These
tests could save your life.
Call the Summers County Health
Department for more information
and appointment.
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(NAPS)--You can give your
guests delicious meals designed
with good health in mind, says Dr.
Julianne Dunne, gynecologist and
obesity medicine specialist at
Westmed Medical Group. Learn
more at www.westmedgroup.com.
Chloraseptic is the No. 1 sore
throat relief brand around. Its
sprays and lozenges provide fast-
acting relief for sore throats and
mouth pain to help you get
through your day. To keep you
ahead of the flu, there's an online
Cold + Flu tracker at www.
chloraseptic.com.
***
Walgreens offers vaccinations
during pharmacy hours, with no
appointment necessary, and lets
you help a child in need. For each
vaccination administered at its
pharmacies and clinics, the corn-
puny donates a lifesaving vaccine
to a child in a developing country.
Learn more at www.Walgreens.
com/GiveAShot.
***
Colon cancer will claim close to
50,000 lives this year alone. Get-
ting screened is critical and a new, '
patient-friendly, noninvasive test
called Cologuard makes it easier
than ever. Learn more at www.
CologuardTest.com.
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COMPffIER SCAN
We're drivers too.
AL-ANON
Are you troubled by someone's
drinking? A1-Anon Family Group
can help. To help them, you have to
help yourself first.
Meetings every Monday nights
7:00 p.m. behind the Child Advocacy
Center at 411 Temple Street. For
more information call: 466-2760.
Please call
855-WV4-PETS
and Leave a Message."
Do you have a litter of puppies
or a dog to turn in or have seen
a stray or lost dog? Please call
our Animal Control Officer 304:
466-4860. Have you witnessed
an animal emergency? ,
Please call 911.
The 2015 real and personal property
taxes are now delinquent. Unless
paid by April 31, 2016, they will be
included for publication in the
forthcoming delinquent list.
Sheriff of Summers County
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