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A Hazardous Profession

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Lodge members of Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, Division 99, at the funeral of
engineer Bill Hadaway, May 11, 1904. Left
to right, Arthur Mills, Archie Smith, B. A.
"Tobe" Boydston, Henry Blackston, Jack Kirby,
"Red" Myers, Ed King, Pete Ohlson, "Whistle
and Run" Charley Dunn and conductor Tom
Hadaway, brother of the deceased.

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"This tragic scene was enacted all too often during this period of heavy traffic on single track railroads," Bruce Gurner says. "Mr. Hadaway was killed when engine 936 overturned after hitting a cow in the 'Graveyard Dip" a mile or so north of Middleburg, Tennessee."

Ironically, Hadaway had been appointed night roundhouse foreman in the Water Valley shop and had made this one last trip to Jackson to get his clothes and turn in his locker. His fireman, Henry Johnson, was killed in the wreck. "Johnson had been with engineer Bob Everett in a wreck just south of Water Valley three weeks before. He was able to jump, but Everett had been scalded and died."

Hadaway, a widower with two little girls had married only two weeks earlier to a lady from Winona.