N&W in 1910--Fatality

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
July 12, 1910

THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS
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    The thirteen-year-old son of Chas. Gray, colored, of east Graham, was run over by a freight train west of Graham and his body terribly mangled under the wheels.  The boy was on his way to Falls Mills, where his father was employed at the stone quarry of the Walton Company, when he met his death.  It is presumed the lad had stepped from the westbound track to allow a westbound train to pass, only to step in front of an eastbound train.  The body was taken in charge by the section gang and as soon as his identity became known his father was notified of the accident and came home and conveyed the remains to his home.  Interment will take place today in the colored cemetery in west Graham.
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[It is surprising how many articles of that era in the Bluefield newspapers reported that people were killed by stepping out of the way of one train only to step in front of another on the double track.  Also, to us today it is hard to imagine how common it was for a body to be taken directly to the deceased's home, but that was often done according to many of the newspaper articles of that time.] 

Gordon Hamilton
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