N&W in 1912--A sad accident

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Thu., March 14, 1912

BRYANT DAVIS DEAD
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Boy Succumbs to Accident Received on West Yard March 4
    Bryant Davis, the boy who lost his left arm and left leg on the west yard on March 4, died yesterday afternoon at the Bluefield Sanitarium. The little fellow made an unusually game fight against odds and staved off death for over .a week. He was confident all the time that he would not die and so confident did he become in his staying qualities that he deceived everyone but the doctors and nurses, who at times, admitted there was a possible chance for him. The little fellow was on his way home when he met with the accident which caused his death. It appears he met up with two boys and one of them pushed him onto the railroad track, along which a freight train was moving. Before the train could be stopped the little fellow had lost an arm close to the shoulder, and a leg, with which went a part of his hip. It was feared he would not be able to live, but he rallied and showed signs of increasing strength, but he finally had to yield to death. The boy was a son of Mrs. Addie Davis, of Graham, whose husband was the late Drewry Davis.
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[It is interesting to speculate what difference modern medicine could have made in little Bryant's survival.  For one thing, penicillin wasn't discovered until 1928.]

Gordon Hamilton
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