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<DIV>In my previous message where I wrote "just like Joe Brady" for Joseph
A. (Steve) Broady, I should have written "just like Steve Broady" because that
is the name that is most familiar. Incidentally, Steve Broady was off the
N&W.</DIV>
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<DIV>Gordon Hamilton</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=gordonshamilton@cox.net href="mailto:gordonshamilton@cox.net">Gordon
Hamilton</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org
href="mailto:nw-mailing-list@nwhs.org">3N&W Mailing List</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 06, 2009 10:04 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> N&W in 1910--Scalded</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>May 1,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>ENGINEER HONAKER SCALDED TO DEATH</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center>------</DIV>
<DIV align=center><STRONG>Caught Under Engine and Escaping Steam Literally
Cooked Him in Few Minutes</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Charles Honaker, one of the best known
engineers on the Clinch Valley division, was scalded to death between Big Bull
Mountain tunnel and Little Bull Mountain tunnel, near Virginia City on the
Clinch Valley yesterday about 11 o'clock, when an engine overturned and escaping
steam literally cooked him in a few seconds. His fireman, John Jones
[<EM>but not John Luther Jones</EM>], was also scalded, but his injuries are not
serious. Several cars were piled up on the side track and engine, tender
and cars all were laid against the bank.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> A broken flange is supposed to have caused
the overturn of the engine and the overturn was so sudden that the engineer did
not have a chance to get off or even do anything to save himself.
Practically caught in his seat with his hand on the throttle he was scalded to
death [<EM>just like Joe Brady</EM>] with no human aid within reach.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Honaker formerly lived in this city and had a
house on Allen street, where his family resided. He finally accepted a run
on the trip between Fink and Norton and moved his family to Fink so he could be
near his work. Yesterday there was a circus at St. Paul and the man
started his run early so that he would be able to get through in time to see the
circus. He was making the run to Norton when the sudden accident snatched
his life away and make orphans of his three children.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Honaker was unusually popular among the
railroad men and yesterday, when it was learned that he was killed, a number of
them went to the scene of the accident but found that his remains were being
brought to this city on train No. 6. The people got off No. 11 and
came back with the remains to Bluefield and the body was taken to the Bluefield
Undertaking parlors where it was prepared for burial before being taken to the
home of Floyd Furrow on Reese street from which place the funeral will take
place. Interment will be in Maple Park cemetery.</DIV>
<DIV align=left>[<EM>The remainder of the article is about his family and is
omitted here.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon Hamilton</FONT></DIV>
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