Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 6
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, April 10, 1902
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A peculiar freak of the
wind is reported from Mart. Sunday an empty box car had been left on a
siding at that place. Sunday night the wind pushed the car over the switch
and down the track several miles. When the south bound passenger train
that arrives here at 9:45, came along it ran upon the "empty" and hooked upon it
and brought it to the next siding. The passenger train was under "slow"
orders, else there might have been a serious wreck. A similar occurrance
took place on the Central a few days ago during a wind storm. En (sic)
"empty" that had
been set out in the yards here was carried over the switch and down to Big
Creek, where it came to a stop on the big trestle and was picked up the next
morning.
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