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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>December 19,
1909</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>IN CITY AND COALFIELD</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Three Cars Overturned</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Three battleship*(1) coal cars were
overturned yesterday afternoon at Ruth*(2) and Train No. 10 had to take the high
grade*(3) at that point in order to make Bluefield on time. The wreck was
cleared away by night.</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>New Interlocking Plant</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The new interlocking plant at Welch, which
has been under construction for some time, is completed and in use. The
plant is a modern one, operated by electricity, with occasional motors along the
track which give the Norfolk and Western the latest and most approved method of
automatic signals at that point. The system is in use at both ends of the
tunnel at Welch and is used to prevent trouble when trains are on both tunnel
track and the station track.</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Railroad Payday Monday</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> The Norfolk and Western checks arrived in the
city last night and Monday will be payday on this end of the division.
Turkey Gap was the only plant in the immediate field which paid off yesterday
and the other plants will follow their custom of paying off on the day before
Christmas.</DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Narrowly Escapes Death</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Everett Buchanan, of this city, who is
employed as a car repairer was brought to Bluefield last night on train
No. 3 in an unconscious condition.*(4) Buchanan had gone to Oakvale
to do some work and was returning to Bluefield on a freight train when he put
his head out too far from between two freight cars as the train was passing the
standpipe at that point. His head was badly injured and he was rendered
unconscious. He had a very narrow escape from death. If when he
fell from the car, he had tumbled underneath he could hardly have escaped being
crushed under the train. Buchanan was taken to the Bluefield Sanitarium
for treatment. He has no relatives here, his home being in North
Carolina.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>*(1) Another use of the term "Battleship" coal cars.
*(2) Ruth was at the east end of Elkhorn Tunnel where the double track from the
east became single through the tunnel. *(3) The high grade was the newer
westward track through Cooper Tunnel that avoided the sharp curves of the
original single-track main line that was still being used at the eastward
track. *(4) Another case of a train being used as an ambulance in
those days.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>