A HAUNTED RAILWAY.
Firemen on the Virginia Midland Railway tell wonderful stories of the nightly appearanoe of a ghost on the track of that road, near Otter River, where a tramp was. killed some time ago. His ghostship first appeared on two white horses, bat becoming more bold of late, the' spiritual, stranger, in the form of a . man, has dispensed with the steeds, and has several times unattended, taken a position on the track in tho attitude of the mad bull, and defied the iron horse. One night last week the fireman of an engine discovered what was supposed to be a man on the track. The engine, which was going at a high rate of speed, struck the man and apparently killed him. The train was stopped and '■ : several hands were sent back to see whatdamage had been done. The body was seen a short distance down the road, but upon the men reaching it, it disappeared. > At other times the ghost has appeared in the cabs of engines, and, after surveying things generally, just stepped out into ' ~ space.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4424, 9 March 1883, Page 2
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181A HAUNTED RAILWAY. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4424, 9 March 1883, Page 2
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