| Show Virginia Marks Site of Wreck of Old 97 DANVILLE VA Famed Famed in song and story the site of the wreck of the old 97 finally has been marked as an historical site by the state conservation conservation conservation con con- commission An historical site sign has been erected at the point on Danville's outskirts where the Southern railway railways railway's railways railway's rail rail- ways way's fast mail express train plunged from a trestle into a ravine that September day in 1903 Nine were killed and seven injured in the wreck I Reason most widely given for the states state's delay in putting up the marker marler designating the famous wreck is that until recently the ravine ravine ravine ra ra- ra- ra vine where the 97 came a cropper was almost inaccessible The Southern South South- em ern railway changed its main line roadbed several years ago and later tore down the trestle A n w highway highway highway high high- way now now jes cros-jes the ravine |
