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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>June 21,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>OVERCOME BY HEAT</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Engineer Whittaker Has to be Relieved in Honaker
Tunnel</STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV align=left> Engineer George Whittaker was overcome
yesterday afternoon in the Honaker tunnel by excessive heat and had to be
relieved by another engineer. Before his condition was discovered his face
was slightly scalded by escaping steam. His fireman did not feel the
effects of the heat. This is the first prostration recorded so far this
summer.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>My grandfather was an engineer on the Pocahontas Division,
starting before the electrification. My grandmother told me that the steam
engine crews on eastbound coal trains slowly climbing the grade to the tight,
single-track Coaldale (aka, Elkhorn, Flat Top) Tunnel would keep a bucket
of burlap bags in water on the engine cab deck and when they
approached the tunnel they would wrap the bags around their heads, except for
their noses, and sometimes their noses would get burned in the
tunnel.</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>