Wayne County NcArchives News.....Everitt's Grade September 26, 1868
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Daily Journal September 26, 1868
State News

Attempt To Throw The Train Off The Track

We learn that last night as the train from Wilmington, which was due here at one 
o'clock, was coming down the grade known as "Everitt's grade" near Everittsville 
about five miles from Goldsboro, the cowcatcher attached to the locomotive struck 
an iron rail which had been placed on the track by some notorious scoundrels who 
were then hid in the woods close by and whose object no doubt was to plunder the 
train.

But fortunately, however, the rail seems to have been placed in an oblique way, 
and when stuck by the locomotive was knocked off the track, thus preventing a 
terrible disaster. We are told that the villains had built a fire on each side of 
the road and no doubt they were hard by. Goldsboro Rough Notes, 25th.


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