N&W in 1910--Hobo hazard

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
April 24, 1910

PUSHED OFF TRAIN
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Leg Cut Off and Head Mashed.  Unknown Man Dies in Hospital

    A man with a leg cut off and his head badly smashed was found beside the track at Flat Top on Friday night, about eight o'clock.  He was unknown and in order to give him what medical and surgical attention was possible he was brought to this city and taken to a local hospital where he died a short time afterwards.  Only one clue to who the man was could be learned and that was a statement made by the man which was only partially understood.  He said that his name was Hollman or some name which was similar and than his home was in Staunton, Va.
    The man was riding a freight train and it appears that he was robbed of a grip he was carrying and then pushed from the train.
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Gordon Hamilton
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