N&W in 1912--Coaches to Jed; Track watchman killed

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The mine at Jed was sold to New River& Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company
after the explosion. NR&PCCC renamed the community Havaco after the mine
reopened.

 

The tunnel referred to in the second paragraph was located across Tug Fork
from the Jed Mine on the Tug Fork Branch.

 

Alex Schust

 

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Thu., March 28, 1912

 

IN CITY AND COALFIELD

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Crowds Go to Jed

    Yesterday two extra coaches were attached to train No. 11, to carry the
curious to the scene of the explosion at the Jed mines.. Six caskets were
sent to Jed on this train from the Sinford Warren Undertaking establishment.
[The front page headline on the previous day's newspaper read, "EIGHTY-THREE
LIVES LOST IN COAL MINE EXPLOSION, Of Ninety-three Men Who Entered Jed Works
Yesterday Eleven Came Out Alive But One, a Boy, Died Within an Hour."  Jed
was on the Tug Fork branch between Welch and Wilcoe.]

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Track Watchman Killed

    On Tuesday evening W. M. Wood, track watchman, while riding a railroad
bicycle on the westbound track east of the tunnel near Wilcoe, was struck by
an extra westbound train and was instantly killed. The train was making
about twenty-five miles an hour and it is supposed Wood did not hear its
approach until too late. He was thirty-five years of age and was well known
in that section. His remains were later taken to Iaeger where he will be
buried today.

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Gordon Hamilton

 

 

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