N&W in 1908 -- Several items

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
September 16, 1908

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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Face Painfully Cut
    F. L. Woolwine, of this city, road foreman of engines for the Norfolk & Western, received several very painful cuts about the face Monday night at Honaker as the result of the check valve of an engine blowing out and striking him in the face.  He was taken to Cleveland [Virginia] where he received medical attention and came on to Bluefield yesterday morning.
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Railroad Officials in City
    N. D. Maher, general manager, A. C. Needles, general superintendent of the eastern general division, D. E. Spangler, superintendent of transportation; J. W. Cook, superintendent of the Radford division, and J. D. Heaton trainmaster, all of the Norfolk & Western, of Roanoke, were in the city yesterday to attend a meeting of the car allotment commission [Apparently this commission was involved in the long-running controversy between the railroad and the mine owners on the proper allotment of cars to the various mines in times of tight car supply.].
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Jumped From Train
    Harry Wright, of Charleston, was badly bruised and cut about the face and arms last night by jumping from passenger train No. 3 at Graham while the latter was in motion.  It seems that he had boarded the train at this place to ride as far as Graham with some friends.  In attempting to leave the train after it had started from Graham he ran into a closed door.  By the time he could traverse the length of the car the train had gained considerable speed and in jumping he was thrown to the ground.  Mr. Wright was on his way to Norfolk and stopped over in the city yesterday with old acquaintances.  He was formerly employed at the West End Pharmacy.
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Gordon Hamilton
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