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

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Thanks Alex! I can always count on you to supply, as Paul Harvey used to say, "The rest of the story."

There is one comment that I should have included with the newspaper article about Jed.  The reference to train No. 11 is suspect because No. 11 in those days was a Bluefield to Norton passenger train on the Clinch Valley line.  Of course, there was no direct connection between the Clinch Valley line and the Tug Fork branch.  Apparently the reporter, or the cross-eyed typesetter, meant No. 1, which ran from Roanoke through Bluefield to Welch where it turned onto the Tug Fork branch to go through Jed on its way to Gary, WV.

Gordon Hamilton
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  The mine at Jed was sold to New River& Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Company after the explosion. NR&PCCC renamed the community Havaco after the mine reopened.

   

  The tunnel referred to in the second paragraph was located across Tug Fork from the Jed Mine on the Tug Fork Branch.

   

  Alex Schust

   

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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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