N&W in 1909--Another fatality

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Today if the dying man was left sitting for "hours" while the rock was moved
the lawsuits would be amazing. In EMS circles we speak of the Golden 
Hour and a
Platinum 10 minutes for a trauma patient. If I don't have the patient on 
the operating table
one hour after the accident, we've failed.

Tom Cosgrove

NW Mailing List wrote:

> Bluefield Daily Telegraph

> February 10, 1909

>  

> FIREMAN DIES OF INJURIES RECEIVED WHEN TRAIN STUCK BOLDER

> ------

> *Engine and One Car Hurled From Track by Rock Weighing Over a Ton*

>  

>     Dislodged from the bank of a cut near Wittens Mills, an immense 

> boulder weighing over a ton rolled on the Norfolk and Western track 

> after midnight yesterday morning and train No. 85 crashed into it with 

> the result that the engine and one car were thrown from the track and 

> the fireman, Will Kensinger, was caught in some way between the bolder 

> and the tender of the engine.

>     A wrecker was rushed from this city to the scene of the accident 

> with Dr. St. Clair on board so that he could give medical assistance 

> to the wounded fireman.  The crew then worked for several hours trying 

> to remove the boulder and as soon as this was finished the special 

> train made a hurried return trip to this city with Kensinger, for whom 

> everything that the doctor could do was being done.  An ambulance met 

> the special at the local station and the man was hurried to the 

> Bluefield Sanitarium where it was found that he could not live, as he 

> reached the local hospital in a pulseless condition.  Within a few 

> minutes after his arrival here he died and was later taken to the home 

> of his mother, Mrs. Mary A . Kensinger, on Allen street.

>     The dead man was 24 years old and was a member of Grace Methodist 

> church and also member of the B. of L. F. & E. [/Brotherhood of 

> Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen/].

>     He is survived by his mother, four sisters--Mrs. C. C. Walker, and 

> Misses Ada, Mary and Pearl Kensinger and two brothers--James and Guy 

> Kensinger.  The funeral will be held from Grace Methodist church this 

> afternoon at 2 o'clock under the auspices of the Brotherhood of 

> Firemen, and the services will be conducted by Rev. T. S. Hamilton and 

> Rev. D. E. Hawk.

> ------

> [/Whitten Mills is in Tazewell County on the Clinch Valley line to 

> Norton, VA./  /Also, Feb. 9th was a Tuesday so it is interesting that 

> Dr. St. Clair made the trip to the accident scene even though his 

> practice must have suffered that day.  Finally, the Rev. T. S. 

> Hamilton was my grandfather./]

>  

> Gordon Hamilton

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-- 
Tom Cosgrove
N2VFK
NREMT-B
SKYWARN Spotter LME002

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