N&W in 1912--Two items: Special train, Killed

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Sat., May 18, 1912

WELCH NEWS NOTES
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Hatfield Special Returns
    The Hatfield special which left Bluefield Tuesday morning for Huntington, carrying representatives to Huntington to attend the district and state [political] conventions, returned on yesterday, passing through Welch at 1 o'clock.  A number of the folks from here who went to the conventions returned on the special, while some of them returned on through trains, No.4 and No.16.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Sun., May 19, 1912

Killed Near Northfork
    As he stepped from one track to the other to avoid an oncoming freight train, J. Ben Morris, a carpenter employed by the Lynchburg Coal and Coke Company, walked in front of a train approaching from the opposite direction.  He was killed instantly.  The accident occurred just east of Northfork about 10:30 o'clock last night.
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Gordon Hamilton
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