A cluster-transfer experiment 9 Be( 9 Be, 14 C * → α+ 10 Be)α was carried out using an incident beam energy of 45 MeV. This reaction channel has a large Q-value that favors populating the high-lying states in 14 C and separating various reaction channels. A number of resonant states are reconstructed from the forward emitting 10 Be + α fragments with respect to three sets of well discriminated final states in 10 Be, most of which agree with the previous observations. A state at 22.5(1) MeV in 14 C is found to decay predominantly into the states around 6 MeV in 10 Be daughter nucleus, in line with the unique property of the predicted band head of the σ-bond linear-chain molecular states. A new state at 23.5(1) MeV is identified which decays strongly into the first excited state of 10 Be.