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Show Virginia Marks Site of 'Wreck of Old 97' DANVILLE, VA. 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 con-servation commission. An historical site sign has been erected at the point on Danville's outskirts where the Southern railway's rail-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. Reason most widely given for the state's delay in putting up the marker designating the famous wreck is that until recently the ravine ra-vine where the 97 came a cropper was almost inaccessible. The Southern South-ern railway changed its main line roadbed several years ago and later tore down the trestle. A new highway high-way now crosses the ravine. |