N&W in 1904 --Routes to St. Louis

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Of course, in Cincinnati, the N&W trains would be able to connect to the
PRR, NYC, B&O L&N and Southern who all had routes to St. Louis via East St.
Louis.   Probably the majority of riders went via the B&O on the old Ohio &
Mississippi route across southern Indiana and Illinois.  

 

Routes to get the cars over to all of the mentioned railroads in Cincinnati
existed in 1904.

 

Gary Rolih 

 

 

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Subject: N&W in 1904 -- Fatal Injury

 

MUCH INDIGNATION AMONG PASSENGERS

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Fireman on World's Fair Special Fatally Injured by Rock Thrown by Miscreant

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    As the World's Fair special was nearing Dunlow Saturday evening, the
passengers were startled by the announcement that Fireman Walter Baisden was
dead in the cab, and in a few minutes it became circulated throughout the
crowded train that he had succumbed to heart failure.  Later signs of life
were discovered and upon investigation it was found that the prostrate man
had been struck on the head with a stone and the skull above the left temple
fractured.  This occurred a short distance above Radnor and from that point
to Wayne the engineer had to stop his train at every flag station and do his
own firing.  At Wayne, Andrew Daniels, who looks after the pumping stations
along the line, was taken on board and fired the engine into Kenova.  There
was much indignation manifested among the passengers when the cause of
Baisden's injury became known.  It is believed that the deed was committed
by some drunken miscreant and not by any one having designs upon the life of
Baisden.

    The stricken fireman was taken to his home at Kenova.

    His condition is extremely critical and the chances are decidedly
against his recovery.

 

Bluefield Daily Telegraph

November 8, 1904

 

[Ads in the BDT indicate that the N&W may have run as many as three trains a
week to the St. Louis World's Fair, over another road beyond Cincinnati, of
course.  Dunlow,WV was on the old Twelve Pole line about half way between
Naugatuck and Kenova.  It is also interesting to contrast the handling of an
injured person in 1904 compared with today's ambulances, rescue squad
vehicles, and helicopters that can reach almost any accident location and
whisk the injured party to a nearby hospital.  In most of the 1904 newspaper
articles involving injuries, the victim was taken to his/her home instead of
a hospital, which was probably non-existent in most locales.]

 

Gordon Hamilton

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