The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1881-02-05
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Two attempts were made at train
wrecking this week on the LouisianI
Western Railroad, without serious in
juryfto anybody or thing from either
The author or authors of this unjusti
fable offense certainly do not know tbs
penalty Of their acts,--it is properly
made punishable by a number of year
Of confinement in the penitentiary. II
is to be supposed that the individua
who made these attempts to destroy
property and people at one stroke il
the victim of some wrong, imaginary
perhaps, at the hands of the railroad
Now, what diabolical course of rca-
soning. The owner of stock along the
road for loss inflicted in his herd by
rushing engine Of the Louisiana
Western Co., attempts to throw from
the track train of passenger cars
filed with people from the heart of
Texas,---can that man be called sane B.
Lafayette Advertiser.
The above editorial refers to an at
tempt at train-wrecking on the night
of January q, about two miles west
of Vermilionyilie. A reward of $1,000
for the arrest and conviction of the
perpetrators, aud a standing reward of
the same amount, for the arrest and
conviction of any one else who may
wilfully place obstructionson the track,
designed to endanger the lives of the
travelling public, is offered by the Lou
iisiana Western Railroad Company, as
will be seen by reference to our adver-
Using columns.
The English language is too weak
to express the adherence with which
that wretch should be regarded, who,
TO crafty any malice or revenge what
ever, can coolly and deliberately place
distractions on such public highway
as railroad track, especially where
passenger trains run at night, with the
fendish purpose Of wrecking passen-
ger train, and thereby hurting into
eternity in a moment some, and mang-
ling and initiating for life others, of
amass of men, women and children,
whom he has never known nor seen,
and who have never done him the
slightest injury.
1t is presumablc that this latest at
tempt at train-wrecking was made in
revenge for the loss of live stock, killed
by the company's trains. Even if the
company had always refused to pay for
such losses, snch refusal would not be
the slightest excuse for such terrible
retaliation, but it is notorious that, un-
less perhaps until recently, the com
pany always paid for such losses, and
these payments have amounted alto
gether to thousands of dollars. I'm
less live stock is kept away from the
road it is simply impossible to prevent
its destruction by passing trains. Most
of the stock killed is killed at night.
a cow standing on the track at night,
is as much fascinated by the headlight
of alocomotive as deer is by the
hunters firc-pan, and stands gazing at
II, in a kind of stupor, until dashed TO
pieces. There are two sides, too, to
abe question as to whether the railroad
company or the owners of live stock,
should put mp fencing to keep such
stock off of the track. No one is liable
TO pay damages for an injury to an
others property, even when in fault,
when the party injured has in any way
contributed to the injury by his own
fault, negligence or carelessness; and
when owners Of live stock allow their
animals to 60 upon a railroad track,
<tbey allow them to expose themselves
10 danger of being struck by passing
Iran rs. The company, desiring toh have
he God will of the entire community
long he line of it's road, adyertises a
tandin, I. offer to furnish, at its own
Expense, wire for barbed wire fencing
II both 81 dos Of its track, to any and
n persons who will furnish the posts
70. lsuch fencing. This shows
good dispos ition on the part Of the
ompany, and adeAire TO avoid acci-
ents to dnmb ininals, and the sffcr
noultl be accept. ID In the same spirit.
The company il in serious earnestin
determination i, protect the lives
q limbs Of paassne sra on IL trains,
ia if these ir,ban,.n, ittenptsto wreck
strains, and to Lii 4 pd nutilat< its
'ssengefs, are repeated somebody will
W seward Of one thos lsand dollars,
Z somebody will 60 10 the peniten
w if he escapes q sasse sermons pan
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