N&W in 1912--Three items: Serious injury, New siding, Painting

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
March 31, 1912

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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Suffered Serious Injury. 
    Yesterday morning about 9 o'clock Mr. Underwood, a car repairer for the Norfolk and Western, while cutting some rivets out of the side of a coal car on the repair track on the east yard, was seriously injured by the side of the car falling on him. He suffered internal injuries. He was taken to the Bluefield Sanitarium for treatment.
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THE GRAHAM DAILY NEWS
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New Siding at Nemours
    A new siding is being put in at Nemours by the Norfolk arid Western to accommodate the rock crusher people there. It is learned the management of' the rock crustier expects to ship twelve car loads of their product just as soon as the railway facilities now being added have been provided.

[Nemours was/is located a mile or so east of Bluestone, Mercer County, WV, and named for the E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. that produced black powder at that location from 1904 to about 1950 according to the Website http://www.bramwellwv.com/nemours.html. The attached picture of the powder plant is from the "Nemours Powder Plant" link on the same Website.]
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Painting Railroad Property
    O. N. Edmonds has gotten his painting force together again and will be out within the next few days rubbing fresh paint over the Norfolk and Western's property on the Pocahontas division.
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Gordon Hamilton
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