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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>February 10,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>FIREMAN DIES OF INJURIES RECEIVED WHEN TRAIN
STUCK BOLDER</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Engine and One Car Hurled From Track by Rock Weighing
Over a Ton</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Dislodged from the bank of a cut near Wittens
Mills, an immense boulder weighing over a ton rolled on the Norfolk and Western
track after midnight yesterday morning and train No. 85 crashed into it with the
result that the engine and one car were thrown from the track and the fireman,
Will Kensinger, was caught in some way between the bolder and the tender of the
engine.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> A wrecker was rushed from this city to the
scene of the accident with Dr. St. Clair on board so that he could give medical
assistance to the wounded fireman. The crew then worked for several hours
trying to remove the boulder and as soon as this was finished the special train
made a hurried return trip to this city with Kensinger, for whom everything that
the doctor could do was being done. An ambulance met the special at the
local station and the man was hurried to the Bluefield Sanitarium where it was
found that he could not live, as he reached the local hospital in a pulseless
condition. Within a few minutes after his arrival here he died and was
later taken to the home of his mother, Mrs. Mary A . Kensinger, on Allen
street.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> The dead man was 24 years old and was a
member of Grace Methodist church and also member of the B. of L. F. & E.
[<EM>Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen</EM>].</DIV>
<DIV align=left> He is survived by his mother, four
sisters--Mrs. C. C. Walker, and Misses Ada, Mary and Pearl Kensinger and two
brothers--James and Guy Kensinger. The funeral will be held from Grace
Methodist church this afternoon at 2 o'clock under the auspices of the
Brotherhood of Firemen, and the services will be conducted by Rev. T. S.
Hamilton and Rev. D. E. Hawk.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>Whitten Mills is in Tazewell County on the Clinch Valley
line to Norton, VA.</EM> <EM>Also, Feb. 9th was a Tuesday so it is
interesting that Dr. St. Clair made the trip to the accident scene even though
his practice must have suffered that day. Finally, the Rev. T. S. Hamilton
was my grandfather.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Script size=6>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>