N&W in 1911--Two items

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
February 8, 1911

SHOT FROM TRAIN
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Colored Man, Dangerously Wounded, Is In Hospital at Welch
    Shot in the breast and right hand by a bullet fired from a passing freight train at Glen Alum yesterday morning shortly before two o'clock, James Pollard, colored, lies dangerously wounded at the miner's hospital at Welch.  The man, whose home is at Clifton Forge, Va., was employed as a laborer on the extra force and was in a camp car when between some of the cars on a passing freight train a shot was fired by some unknown person which inflicted wounds that made it necessary to take him to the Welch hospital on train No. 4 yesterday.  The shot which struck Pollard passed through the window of the camp car and struck him as he lay asleep in his bunk in the car.  The matter is being investigated by the railroad people who have little hope of finding the man who fired the shot as it is believed to have been fired by some hobo who was stealing a ride.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
February 9, 1911

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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New Gravel Train
    Two new work trains have been placed on the Cincinnati division of the Norfolk and Western railway.  They will be used to haul gravel from the pits at Newtown to the Clare yards, where six new tracks will be installed at once.  It was also said that 4,000 loads of gravel from the Newtown bank would be hauled to the Pocahontas division in early spring.  This gravel is said to be the best ballast in the world.
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Gordon Hamilton
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