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<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS">Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>October 15,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">SAD DEATH OF CHILD ON
PASSENGER TRAIN</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman">Enroute to Work With Wife
and Babe When Death Occurred</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman"> A pathetic
incident occurred yesterday morning on passenger train No. 12 from the Clinch
Valley division of the Norfolk and Western between Tom's Creek and Coeburn when
Maggie Fain, the eight months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Fain, died of
spinal meningitis. The father is a miner and was going to Dante to secure
work. The child had been sick for several months, and its condition was
critical when its parents left Norton for Dante, but the father had been
promised work, and he felt it incumbent upon him to go and take the little
sufferer and her mother along. The family is very poor, and Captain John
?? [<EM>last name blurred on microfilm</EM>]<EM>,</EM> conductor on the train,
showed that his heart is in the right place when he made a donation. The
passengers followed suit and a liberal purse was made up.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Times New Roman">[<EM>If anyone wonders why the
family was on the branch line from Coeburn to Toms Creek in the course of a trip
from Norton to Dante (pronounced "Dant" locally), it is because No. 12 regularly
made a side trip up the branch to Toms Creek and back to Coeburn on its way from
Norton to Bluefield. The couple would have transferred to the C. C. &
O Ry. at St. Paul in order to reach Dante.</EM>]<EM> </EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>