N&W in 1911--Another accident

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 4, 1911

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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Run Down by Engine
    Gus Holley, colored, employed as a section hand by the Norfolk and Western, was run over by engine 116* yesterday afternoon.  Holley was working on the track on the south side of the ice plant when the engine backed on him, cutting off a leg and bruising him about the head and body.  He was removed to a hospital.
*This 116 was a Class I, 0-8-0 built 1883.
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Gordon Hamilton
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