N&W in 1904 -- Glanvar Wreck

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SECOND FATAL WRECK 
            OCCURS AT GLENVAR
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Mangled Body Found Under Debris of First Smash-up.
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    Another freight wreck occurred yesterday morning at 4 o'clock about one and a half miles west of Glanvar, in which a negro tramp named Willie Bowen had both of his legs cut off.  Five cars loaded with coal were smashed up.  The wreck was caused by the train breaking loose in the middle, which caused the cars to run together.  The tramp was taken to Roanoke hospital, where both limbs were amputated.  He died shortly after the operation.  The wreck caused a delay of several hours in the running of passenger trains.
    "When cleaning up the wreck which occurred at Glanvar Tuesday, the mangled body of a tramp was found under the debris.  He was literally mashed to death, and had it not been for fragments of clothing, it would have been difficult to determine whether it was a man or a sheep.
    "Another tramp, who was aboard the same train, and who escaped injury, says the man who was killed got on at Pocahontas and they traveled together until they reached Radford, when the more unfortunate of the two sought another part of the train."

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
July 3, 1904

Gordon Hamilton
                            
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