N&W in 1908--Two fatalities

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It was called dead man's cut

Alex Schust
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  The first order of business for the section foreman on 
  Mondays was to go to the cut west of North Fork to
  see if any bodies had accumulated over the week end.
  You see, at Keystone there was a place known as
  Cinder Bottom (as I recall) and at this location were
  these uh, uhm, houses.  Highwaymen (or perhaps
  railwaymen) would wait in the cut  and relieve the
  sex-seekers of their valuables. There's a Slaughter
  Pen cut on the Southern, but I've forgotten the name
  of the cut west of North Fork.  Maybe Ed King knows.
                                              Harry Bundy


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