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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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e expect to get a chance to go rightthrough to Berlin when we start andthat will not be long now. I supposeyou see what the American are doingnow on their counter attack. Well, weare just going to keep on going until weget the Devil. I suppose you knowwho he is by now. I received a cardfrom Thomas saying that he arrivedin and expected to go on to London. 25 26 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE He is with the 23rd Aero Squadron. Iam going to try and see him before wego to the front. I met Ed Martin,from McMechen. His father was aBaltimore and Ohio engineer. I havenot met Burke nor any of the otherfellows yet, but I suppose I will beforelong. We get seven days leave after four months and I think I will go to Paris. Inever expected to see that place, but Iam going in September if we are not atthe front, which I think we will be.God help the Huns when we get there.I have some work to do before supper, sogood-bye, good luck and God bless you.From your son, ^Sergeant James W. Garvey.
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Iir; GAItVEY BOYS WHO ARE IN THE GREAT FIGHT Fireman May Get Presidential Medal forAverting Serious Train Wreck HOR bis bravery in crawling; througha cloud of steam ^nd flagginga heavily loaded passenger trainthat was bearing down upon anoverturned engine near Newburg, W. Va.,on the morning of August 19, FiremanE. W. Bennett may be awarded a specialmedal of honor by President Wilson.Federal Manager A. W. Thompson hasalready sent Fireman Bennett a letter ofcommendation and a Baltimore newspaperhas declared editorially that he is as greata hero as any man on the battlefields ofEurope. Fireman Bennett was working on thesecond engine that was pulling TrainNo. 4 over the mountains. As the steephill just east of Newburg was reached,the helper engine left the rails, crashedinto an embankment and overturned,falling across the three tracks at thatpoint. The right of way was entirelyblocked. Fireman Bennett could seethat the engineer of the helper waskilled at his post and he saw the firemanof

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