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Dec. 18, 2005
100 Years Ago Today
Compiled by Brandon Woolum
Huntington News Network Writer
Huntington, WV (HNN) -- The following is the statement of President L. E.
Johnson of the N & W Railroad on the pass question:
“Beginning with January 1, 1906, the Norfolk and Western Railway Company
will discontinue the issuing of free transportation to all persons other
than employees of the company.”
“It is not the intention to discontinue his issuance of free transportation
to its employees, but the same restrictions that have heretofore been thrown
around the issuance of free transportation will be continued as in the
past.”
“The Norfolk and Western railway will exchange transportation with other
railroads for persons actually employed upon request of proper officers for
such transportation.”
“The above outlines the policy of the company outside of the state of
Virginia.”
“It affects the policy of the Norfolk and Western Railway in the state of
Virginia to this extent: Although it is perfectly well known that this
company has issued no free transportation to any state or municipal officers
of the state of Virginia since the adoption of the present constitution, yet
it has been customary for the company to issue free transportation in some
instances to officers of the federal government. This last named class of
transportation will be discontinued.
“It will be seen from the above that so far as the companies of the road are
concerned, they will not be affected, but the order in substance means the
discontinuance of passes to every one else.”
---At 2:30 o’clock Friday afternoon C & O eastbound freight train No. 61
struck two young men who were walking up the track, just above the
Thirty-second street crossing, in Ashland, killing one and probably fatally
injuring the other.
The one killed was Carlie Pickelsimer and the injured boy was Ward L.
Patrick, both 16 years of age. Both are from Hager, Magoffin County, and
had been in Ashland only one week. They has secured employment at the
Herriman Lumber Company’s plant, but had been laid off Friday morning.
They boarded with Mr. and Mrs. Elias Pwer of Carter Avenue and Thirty-second
Street, Pickelsimer being a cousin of Mrs. Powers. The young men, being
idle were walking up the railroad track at the hour stated. A train was
approaching westbound and the young men stepped over onto the eastbound
track never thinking to look behind them; with the result that in the noise
of the passing of the westbound train, they did not hear the approach from
the rear of extra No. 361, which ran them down.
Pickelsimer was killed instantly, Patrick was badly hurt, but the full
extent of his injuries cannot not so learned as the crew on No. 361 picked
him up and hurried him on to the C & O Hospital here.
An ambulance was called and the remains of Pickelsimer was carried and the
remains of Pickelaimer removed to the morgue at Bullington’s undertaking
establishment, where Dr. A. H. Moore, the county coroner at Ashland, held an
inquest.
Patrick was resting well at the C & O hospital Saturday afternoon, and there
is a bare chance for his recovery.
--- A short session of the Criminal Court was held Saturday. The only
cases considered were appeals from the police court of Huntington. In two
of these cases, those of Olel Freel and Marion Stanley. The police court
judgment was knocked out on account of defects in the warrants under which
they were tried.
--- Barboursville, KY – The South and Western Railway has now begun the
construction of the 300-mile extension fro ma point in Pike County, this
state, to Spartanburg, S. C. Several thousand men are at work in Virignia
and Tennessee grading. According to the statement of the official, the line
will connect with the Cheseapeake and Ohio’s new extension up the valley of
the Big Sandy River.
It is believed here that the S. and W. 300-mile line will connect with the
Seaboard Air Line in North Carolina and make a link in a truck line from the
Ohio River to the seaboard.
