N&W in 1912--Two items: Accident, Fell

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Sat., April 20, 1912

 IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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In Railroad Accident
    W. P. Hager has returned from a visit to Bland, and is suffering from a slight injury to his back received in a railroad accident of the New River and Holston [sic], which occurred between Round Bottom and Day stations.
[In the December 1910 Official Guide, Day was the west end of the NRH&W.  By the June 1915 Guide the line had been extended from Day through Rocky Gap and Bastian to Suiter.  There was no listing for Round Bottom.]
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FELL FROM TRAIN
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Rube Carter, Colored, Killed While Attempting to Board Train at Northfork
    Screaming with fright and the realization that he was about to die, Rube Carter, colored, went to his death yesterday afternoon at Northfork when he fell from a Norfolk and Western freight train which he was attempting to board and his eyes fairly stood from the sockets, according to a witness of the tragedy, as the car wheels rolled closer to his neck, before passing over that part of his body and severe his head from his shoulders.
    The accident, which occurred at 2:30 o'clock, was over in half minute, but the realization of the sight of death coming to a frightened man who recognized its touch will live for years in the minds of the few to whom was given the awful privilege of seeing a man go to a sudden and unprepared for violent death.  Screeching with horror, while no one as near enough to assist him the man fell and, according to one person who saw it, it seemed he would never reach the rail, where death was awaiting him with the grind of the approaching and receding car wheels.
    The man's body was afterwards taken to an undertaker's establishment for burial.
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Gordon Hamilton
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