N&W in 1912--Scoop car accident

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 12, 1912

CRUSHED UNDER WHEELS
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Walter Hariston [sic], Colored, Killed by Train Near Iaeger
    Walter Hairston [sic] was crushed to death Sunday morning near Iaeger when a car on which was a steam shovel apparatus turned over upon him.  The man was working near the car when the engineer on the scoop car in lowering the scoop to load it with dirt and muck swung the boom around to such as extent that it became top heavy and overturned, catching him underneath.  He was a native of North Carolina.  The accident was witnessed by a number of men who were working with Hairston, but who were unable to help him.  When the car was lifted it was found he was dead.
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[For more information on N&W scoop cars see my article, "What's the Scoop on Scoop Cars?" in the July/August 2004 issue of The Arrow, Vol. 20, No. 4.  Also, see Mason Cooper's book on the Pocahontas Division, p. 141.]

Gordon Hamilton
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