N&W in 1911--Another five items

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
June 25, 1911

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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Quiet Payday Night
    Last night was probably one of the most quiet payday nights ever known in Bluefield.  The streets were packed with shoppers, but there was very little disorder.  In his rounds, up to an early hour this morning, the Telegraph reporter did not see a single drunk upon the streets.
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Fingers Badly Hurt
    C. H. Lawson, a well known brakeman on the Norfolk and Western, suffered severe injury to several of his fingers yesterday by having them caught between some large lumps of coal.  The nail of one of the fingers was torn off.
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Received Serious Burns
    Orrin Dawson while at work at the shops yesterday was severely burned on the face and hands.  He was attending a fire and when the draft was turned on the flames flashed over him.
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Trains Crowded Yesterday
    The trains coming and going throughout the coalfields were crowded yesterday, and especially last night, the occasion being payday and the attendant festivities.
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Miners Are Scarce
    There is a scarcity of miners in the field, due to the exodus of foreigners who are going back to their native countries [I wonder why?]
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Gordon Hamilton
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