N&W in 1910--Lots of news

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 30, 1910

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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Loses His Foot
    Sam Goodall, a seventeen-year-old boy, who is the only support of a widowed mother, lost his left foot at Oakvale yesterday when he fell from a freight underneath the wheels.  The boy and a companion of about the same age, were riding on the train.  Goodall tried to snatch the hat of his friend while the train was in motion.  He missed the hat and lost his balance, falling underneath the wheels.  He was brought to this city on an engine and taken to the Bluefield Sanitarium where his injuries were treated.  The boy's house is at Ingleside.
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No Branch Line to Roanoke
    The Daily Telegraph has learned that the Chesapeake and Ohio is not planning the construction of a branch line to Roanoke or any other point in that section.  This information comes from the office of the president.  An effort to learn from the same source whether the Chesapeake and Ohio intends to extend its Big Sandy branch was not productive of results.  It is therefore likely [sic] that such an extension of the Big Sandy branch such as has been mentioned in the Daily Telegraph is contemplated.
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Not Hurt by Fall From Train
    While under the influence of a jag George Teller, of Narrows, was thrown from a freight train yesterday at Lurich and owning to his load he was able to escape injury.  The man tried to catch a passing freight but was unable to do so.  He was thrown to the ground and when picked up it was thought his back was broken, but an examination proved that his  suppleness, due to the inactivity of the muscles, saved him from the broken back.
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Sensation at Bramwell
    Quite a sensation was created in Bramwell yesterday when Dr. Ed. Jones arrived in town with his Hupmobile.  Those who knew he was coming, and there were a good many of them, lined the streets awaiting the arrival of the doctor with his harbinger of better roads.  Several went out on horseback to see the car make the hills, but it went to town without any trouble.  This is the fist car which has made the run from this city to Bramwell and the Hupmobile is the first car owned and driven in Bramwell.  Several Bramwellites own cars which they drive in the east but heretofore they have been content to leave them there.  The car took the route to Bramwell via Hales's crossing near Midway.
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Excursion Circus Day
    The Norfolk and Western has announced an excursion from the Clinch Valley to Bluefield for the eighth of September when the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus will be here.  Owing to the law passed by the last session of the Virginia legislature circuses cannot show in Virginia, the license fee of over $1,000 for each performance being prohibitive.  On this account the towns on the borders of the adjoining states are getting the business this year.
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Lost Left Leg
    Sam Musslewhite, of Big Four, a miner, lost his left leg near Claren yesterday afternoon about 3.30 o'clock when, in attempting to catch a passing freight train, he fell beneath the cars.  He was found a short time afterwards by a section hand and sent to the Miners' Hospital, at Welch.
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Inspection Tour
    President L. E. Johnson and a few of the officials will pass over the Norfolk and Western today on a tour of inspection.  The party will arrive in a special train.
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[Lots of railroad items--and one railroad competitor item-- that day!]

Gordon Hamilton
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