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From Marshall Blizzard, Bayard, WV

1. Train Carrying Lumber and Workers Across Bridge

IDNO:
000125
Title:
Train Carrying Lumber and Workers Across Bridge
Date:
undated
Description:
From Marshall Blizzard, Bayard, WV
From Austin J. Sharpe, Huntersville, W.Va. Hambleton, Randolph County, W.Va.

2. Log Loader and Crew

IDNO:
000128
Title:
Log Loader and Crew
Date:
undated
Description:
From Austin J. Sharpe, Huntersville, W.Va. Hambleton, Randolph County, W.Va.
From Austin J. Sharp, Huntersville, W.Va. May, Pocahontas County, W.Va.

3. Log Loader Lifting a Log with Men on It

IDNO:
000138
Title:
Log Loader Lifting a Log with Men on It
Date:
undated
Description:
From Austin J. Sharp, Huntersville, W.Va. May, Pocahontas County, W.Va.
Crane loading logs onto train.

4. Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.

IDNO:
000174
Title:
Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1945/11/10
Description:
Crane loading logs onto train.

5. Log Loader Loading Flat Cars, Note Logs Lifted by Skidder, Mower Lumber Co.

IDNO:
000176
Title:
Log Loader Loading Flat Cars, Note Logs Lifted by Skidder, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1946/08/07
Train engine and crane working in log yard.

6. Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.

IDNO:
000190
Title:
Shay No. 4 in Woods with Log Crane, Mower Lumber Co.
Date:
1945/11/10
Description:
Train engine and crane working in log yard.
Nine men standing on logs and a loader of a railroad car.

7. Loader and Crew on Greenbrier and Elk Railroad Car.

IDNO:
000361
Title:
Loader and Crew on Greenbrier and Elk Railroad Car.
Date:
undated
Description:
Nine men standing on logs and a loader of a railroad car.
Loader putting lumber on cargo cars. Man standing on logs on the car.

8. Mower Lumber Company Loader and Car No. 151

IDNO:
000362
Title:
Mower Lumber Company Loader and Car No. 151
Date:
1946/08/07
Description:
Loader putting lumber on cargo cars. Man standing on logs on the car.
Log loader with crew. "This is the way they load logs on the Elk River. S.G."

9. Log Loader on Elk River

IDNO:
000390
Title:
Log Loader on Elk River
Date:
undated
Description:
Log loader with crew. "This is the way they load logs on the Elk River. S.G."
Those killed as a result of the accident were William Blankenship, Homer Cart, Thomas W. Craft, James Hunter, Eddie Huelett, Steve Kozma, Everett Leach, John Long, William J. Maynus, Henry McMillian, J. L. "Pat" Murphy, Delmar Oxley, Jesse Persinger, S. L. Runyon, Ray Tartar, William Turner, and Jerome Walters. In addition to those who lost their lives, 43 or 46 were injured. A Chesapeake and Ohio derrick car works to clear the wreckage.

10. Work Train Explosion in Powellton Hollow, McDunn, W. Va.

IDNO:
052188
Title:
Work Train Explosion in Powellton Hollow, McDunn, W. Va.
Date:
1934/12/27
Description:
Those killed as a result of the accident were William Blankenship, Homer Cart, Thomas W. Craft, James Hunter, Eddie Huelett, Steve Kozma, Everett Leach, John Long, William J. Maynus, Henry McMillian, J. L. "Pat" Murphy, Delmar Oxley, Jesse Persinger, S. L. Runyon, Ray Tartar, William Turner, and Jerome Walters. In addition to those who lost their lives, 43 or 46 were injured. A Chesapeake and Ohio derrick car works to clear the wreckage.