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And ....no antibiotics, no blood transfusions, no cardiac or
intraoperative monitoring, no mechanical ventilators, no cardiac or
chest surgery to speak of......only ether for anesthesia and on and
on. One hundred years makes a huge difference. <br>
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Jim McDaniel, Pulmonary/Critical care doc in Delmarva<br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">You can get them to the OR in an
hour if you've got good roads and fast ambulances, neither of which
were present around the Clinch Valley Line in 1909.</font></div>
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Today if the dying man was left sitting for "hours" while the rock was
moved<br>
the lawsuits would be amazing. In EMS circles we speak of the Golden
Hour and a<br>
Platinum 10 minutes for a trauma patient. If I don't have the patient
on the operating table<br>
one hour after the accident, we've failed.<br>
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Tom Cosgrove<br>
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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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