N&W in 1912--Two items

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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
February 4, 1912

IN CITY AND COALFIELD
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Badly Shaken Up
    J. F. Ward, of Reese street, was badly shaken up under the Allen street bridge last night a few minutes after 8 o'clock while riding the front of a Mallet engine, which he was attempting to uncouple from the caboose ahead, when the engineer of the head end threw on the brakes, throwing Ward forward.  His arm, head, and leg were injured and he received some slight burns.  He was assisted to the street where a doctor came to attend him and he was afterwards taken to the Bluefield Sanitarium.  Little damage was done except to the caboose.
[It sounds as though Ward was on the front of a pusher engine that was pushing against a caboose on an eastbound train.]
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Back on His Run
    Ernest Kirtner, who was injured a few weeks ago when train No. 16 was wrecked east of here, is back again on his run on Nos. 3 and 16.  Kirtner said last night that he is getting along pretty well, but is glad to be able to get back to work, as he was tired of doing nothing.
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Gordon Hamilton
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