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The Wreck on the C&O & Fatal Run WV20 |
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Across Greenbrier River, on October 23, 1890, engineer George Washington Alley (b. July 10, 1860) was scalded to death. Engine #134, pulling Fast Flying Virginian from Cincinnati to Washington, hit a boulder on tracks. Lewis Withrow & Robert Foster, firemen, injured. Alley, pinned in cab, died before rescuers & family could free him. Solemnized in verse & song "The Wreck on the C&O" & Fatal Run.
WV 3, 0.8 miles from junction with WV 3/WV 20, Bellepoint Summers County West Virginia.
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