N&W in 1904 - Oops

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HEADLIGHT LOOKED BIG AT NIGHT
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Trainmen Jumped When They Saw Train Coming and Were Injured
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    Conductor W. C. Flanagan and Flagman W. H. Burns were seriously but not fatally injured by jumping from a caboose on a Norfolk and Western freight train at Dunlow [on the old Twelve-Pole line] Friday night.
    The train of which they had charge, having been flagged, had just come to a standstill, when they, seeing an approaching train from the rear, only a few car lengths from them, and not knowing at what rate of speed it was running, jumped from their caboose, which was standing on a bridge about twenty feet high.  Both men were badly hurt and bruised.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
October 13, 1904

[This gives a new meaning to "joining the birds!"]

Gordon Hamilton
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