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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