N&W in 1910--Boarding accident

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
April 24, 1910

DID NOT CATCH NO. 7
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Colored Man Loses Foot at Davy While Attempting to Get on Train
    Henry Boone, colored, attempted to jump on train No. 7 yesterday morning at Davy and in some way missed his footing and was thrown beneath the train which was in motion.  His right foot was cut off at the ankle.  The man, who was a miner, was taken to the Miner's Hospital at Welch.  The crowd which is always gathered at that point was terribly excited when the accident occurred as it was thought that the man who had fallen beneath the train in full sight of the people was killed.
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[Probably another accident involving early open vestibule cars, or narrow vestibule cars, neither of which generally had a gate or door to prevent someone from boarding or alighting while the car was in motion, in contrast to later closed vestibule cars which had a vestibule side door that presumably would be closed by the train crew after giving the engineer a highball.]

Gordon Hamilton
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