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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Tunga>Bluefield Daily Telegraph<BR>August 16,
1910</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><FONT size=4>STRUCK BY TRAIN</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=center><STRONG>Eugene Wade, Colored, Instantly Killed Monday
Morning</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV align=left> Eugene Wade, colored, was killed Sunday
morning on the Coopers hill by the engine of train No. 4, which was driven by
Engineer Morrisette. General Superintendent George P. Johnson was on the
engine when the fatal accident occurred. It seems that Wade, who was about
forty years of age, was standing on the track watching a train passing over the
western viaduct at Coopers and did not hear the passenger train crawling up on
him. The curve and steep grade at Coopers prevented the engineer from
seeing the man until he was upon him and Wade was instantly killed. His
remains were turned over to Ballard Wade, a relative, at Simmons, and prepared
for burial. The Norfolk and Western assumed the burial expenses and gave
the body to the relatives at their request. It was considered an
unavoidable death and as the man was a trespasser no other report was made of
it.</DIV>
<DIV align=left> Yesterday morning, however, the matter was
again brought to the attention of the railroad authorities when the coffin
containing the body was found on the station platform where it had been carried
during the night by some of the people to whom it had been turned over.
The people at the station did not know what to do when they found a dead body
had been left on their hands and the matter was reported to the offices in this
city. The local officials advised that the body be buried, which was done
along the railroad right-of-way. This is the first time in years that a
body has been placed on the station platform unknown to the officials.
There have been a number of cases where relatives have refused to take the
bodies of their relatives, but it is seldom that the body is returned after the
relatives have accepted it and signified their intention of burying it.</DIV>
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<DIV align=left>[<EM>A Feb. 19, 1909, article posted on the Mailing List about
two deaths on the tracks at Graham, VA, ended about one of them, " ...the
railroad company gave the body a decent burial on their right of way near the
west end tower where sleep a number of unfortunates who met death in a similar
manner and were buried by the company." I speculated then, "I wonder how
many instances of bones being found occurred on the N&W during later-day
excavations for utilities, etc."</EM>]</DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT size=6 face=Script>Gordon
Hamilton</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>