RICHARD STEPHENS / PVT
Jim Murray, of Beatty, was awakened shortly before 6 a.m. Wednesday when a board struck him while he slept on the couch. Apparently not significantly injured, Murray discovered that a double tankard truck -- empty, thank goodness -- belonging to Apex Bulk Commodities, of Adelanto, Calif., had struck the family car in the rear and propelled it through the wall of the house, located behind the parking lot of the 76 station. The driver reported that he had gotten a cup of coffee and returned to his cab, then gone back to use the restroom. When he returned, his truck was gone, although Murray knew exactly where it was. A bit of Beatty history was exposed in the accident. The house, which Murray and his mother, Evelyn Hall, were renting, was at least partially constructed of railroad ties from Beatty’s early history as a railroad town.
