N&W in 1909--Another fatality

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OK
I can accept that reading of the story.
It just struck me in that part of my experience.

Tom Cosgrove


NW Mailing List wrote:

> The way I understood the article (reading somewhat between the lines) 

> the fireman was trapped between the boulder and the tender in such a 

> way that he could not be extricated until the special train and crew 

> from Bluefield arrived.  As soon as the crew removed the boulder that 

> had the fireman trapped he was loaded on the train for the rush trip 

> to Bluefield.

>  

> The reporter could have clarified the situation better than he did.

>  

> Gordon Hamilton

>  

> ----- Original Message -----

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>     *Subject:* Re: N&W in 1909--Another fatality

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>     Today if the dying man was left sitting for "hours" while the rock

>     was moved

>     the lawsuits would be amazing. In EMS circles we speak of the

>     Golden Hour and a

>     Platinum 10 minutes for a trauma patient. If I don't have the

>     patient on the operating table

>     one hour after the accident, we've failed.

>

>     Tom Cosgrove

>

>     NW Mailing List wrote:

>>     Bluefield Daily Telegraph

>>     February 10, 1909

>>      

>>     FIREMAN DIES OF INJURIES RECEIVED WHEN TRAIN STUCK BOLDER

>>     ------

>>     *Engine and One Car Hurled From Track by Rock Weighing Over a Ton*

>>      

>>         Dislodged from the bank of a cut near Wittens Mills, an

>>     immense boulder weighing over a ton rolled on the Norfolk and

>>     Western track after midnight yesterday morning and train No. 85

>>     crashed into it with the result that the engine and one car were

>>     thrown from the track and the fireman, Will Kensinger, was caught

>>     in some way between the bolder and the tender of the engine.

>>         A wrecker was rushed from this city to the scene of the

>>     accident with Dr. St. Clair on board so that he could give

>>     medical assistance to the wounded fireman.  The crew then worked

>>     for several hours trying to remove the boulder and as soon as

>>     this was finished the special train made a hurried return trip to

>>     this city with Kensinger, for whom everything that the doctor

>>     could do was being done.  An ambulance met the special at the

>>     local station and the man was hurried to the Bluefield Sanitarium

>>     where it was found that he could not live, as he reached the

>>     local hospital in a pulseless condition.  Within a few minutes

>>     after his arrival here he died and was later taken to the home of

>>     his mother, Mrs. Mary A . Kensinger, on Allen street.

>>         The dead man was 24 years old and was a member of Grace

>>     Methodist church and also member of the B. of L. F. & E.

>>     [/Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen/].

>>         He is survived by his mother, four sisters--Mrs. C. C.

>>     Walker, and Misses Ada, Mary and Pearl Kensinger and two

>>     brothers--James and Guy Kensinger.  The funeral will be held from

>>     Grace Methodist church this afternoon at 2 o'clock under the

>>     auspices of the Brotherhood of Firemen, and the services will be

>>     conducted by Rev. T. S. Hamilton and Rev. D. E. Hawk.

>>     ------

>>     [/Whitten Mills is in Tazewell County on the Clinch Valley line

>>     to Norton, VA./  /Also, Feb. 9th was a Tuesday so it is

>>     interesting that Dr. St. Clair made the trip to the accident

>>     scene even though his practice must have suffered that day. 

>>     Finally, the Rev. T. S. Hamilton was my grandfather./]

>>      

>>     Gordon Hamilton

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