N&W in 1912--Coaches to Jed; Track watchman killed

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Thu., March 28, 1912

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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Crowds Go to Jed
    Yesterday two extra coaches were attached to train No. 11, to carry the curious to the scene of the explosion at the Jed mines.. Six caskets were sent to Jed on this train from the Sinford Warren Undertaking establishment.
[The front page headline on the previous day's newspaper read, "EIGHTY-THREE LIVES LOST IN COAL MINE EXPLOSION, Of Ninety-three Men Who Entered Jed Works Yesterday Eleven Came Out Alive But One, a Boy, Died Within an Hour."  Jed was on the Tug Fork branch between Welch and Wilcoe.]
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Track Watchman Killed
    On Tuesday evening W. M. Wood, track watchman, while riding a railroad bicycle on the westbound track east of the tunnel near Wilcoe, was struck by an extra westbound train and was instantly killed. The train was making about twenty-five miles an hour and it is supposed Wood did not hear its approach until too late. He was thirty-five years of age and was well known in that section. His remains were later taken to Iaeger where he will be buried today.
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Gordon Hamilton

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