N&W in 1910--Peculiar accident

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
April 22, 1910

MEETS PECULIAR DEATH
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Remains of S. A. Vaught, Fireman, Found Beside Track
    S. A. Vaught, a fireman, met with a peculiar death early this morning between Coaldale and Maybeury.  The man in some way was knocked from his engine and the fact that he had disappeared from his post was not known until the engineer noticed that the steam was getting low.  It is supposed that the man had thrown some coal in the firebox and afterwards grasping the handle of the cab leaned out of the window to get a view of the smokestack when some passing freight struck him, pitching him headlong to death.  The train crew found his remains alongside the track.  Vaught worked out of Vivian and is a brother of H. L. Vaught, section master at Vivian.  He was unmarried and twenty-six years of age.
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Gordon Hamilton
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