Hi: I have some first-hand experience with accuracy in newspapers. The article about our family reunion in 1991, reported in one Vermont newspaper, got *every single fact* wrong, and misspelled half the first names. This in spite of nearly all of the participants being lifelong residents of the area (most living in the town where the reunion was held and the newspaper is published), and even though I fact-checked with the reporter. Another Vermont newspaper reported in 1970 that I was a member of the US Army Special Forces. Yikes! (I was in a forward support unit.) But I think the last sentence of the quoted article, below, is as accurate a bit of newspaper editorializing as I have ever read. Darrell -----Original Message----- From: CHabes <cathabes@cinci.rr.com> Sent: Apr 5, 2004 8:45 AM On the subject of railroad accidents, I once noticed this article which I would have guessed from the first few words to have a very different outcome. Although no name is mentioned, I thought it worth posting. Elyria Independent Democrat (Elyria, Ohio) Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1870 An engine at Rutland, Vermont, passed over a two year old baby, the other day, rolling over and over between the rails, and finally leaving it with scarcely a scratch. But the experiment is hardly worth repeating. Darrell A. Martin a native Vermonter in exile in Illinois darrellm@sprynet.com