The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-10-28
TRACK AND TRAIN TOPICS.
Items OF General Interest Con-
corning Railroads and
Railroad Men.

The government of the United States
of Colombia hss informed the Panama
Railroad company that il will not allow
that company's lines Of railroad to be cut,
changed or damaged for the benefit of the
De Lesseps canal.
There are to-day in the south PSI
roads, divided among the states as follows:
Alsb ma, %; Arkansas, II; Florida, II;
Georgia, 80 Kentucky, p; Lsusiana, IA
Mississippi, 10; North Carolina, %; s, nth
Carolina, 10; Tennessee, "a Texas, %, and
Virginia, 80. Their mill age is 27,4lS
miles total track laid, 81 900 miles, 1850
miles of which 10 la steel rails.
III. s. De Pew, joiai agent of The East.
bound Traffic Association, ut Ss, Louis, has
issued q special tariff on lumber, Iath,
Shingles, eooperage, coopersge stock and
logs, stxves, headings, hoop pol.s, shocks
hoops, stave Dol and rough stone. The
rates on all the articles mentioned, except
rough stone, are as follows: To Boston,
per 100 pounds, 453c; New York, 40ac ;
Phil del phia, 38ic; Baltimore, ST.; Aloa-
ny, Troy and Schenectady, SHE; Sa a.
manca, Dunkirk, Pittsburg, and Buffalo,
23c. % 70. gh stone. The rate is about
S cents s. than on lumber, esc.
eyer of the Kansas City, Fl scott & Gulf
road, has Issued the following notice: the
Ples ssnt Hill & De Soto rsiirosd, having,
by purchase, become the property Of the
Kansss Civ, Clinton & Springfield rail-
road comp any, will, until further notice De
ops rsts d for account of that company by
the Ksnsss City, Fl. Scott Gulf rsii-
road company. Employees will report to,
and receive Instructions from, the follow
ing officers in their respective departments :
L. w. Touns, superintendent Of Transports
ton j. s. Ford, comptroller; NJ. l.. Sar-
geani, general freight agent; j. E. Lock-
wood, general passenger and ticket agent"
THE HOSPITAL
The record yesterday vas as follows:
Ed. Webb, Green Ridge, section labor
CT, with intermittent fever.
Re bert Drummoad, Sedslia, assistant
baggagemast.r ut the Gsrrisen house de-
pot, with rheumatism
George Saunders, brakeman Ia the Sc.
dalia yards. While coupling two cars he
had his hand caught between Two draw
he DIS, and two fingers and one thumb
mashed.
ACCIDENT-Two MEN INJURED.
The freight train which eft Sedslia at
l:30 p. m. y. erday for Kansas CRY via.
the Lexington branch, met with an acct
cent when about two miles this side OF
Brownsville and just west of Blackwater
bridge. At the point indicated, from some
unknown reason six cars left the track and
injured two brskemen named Chaplin and
Reddv.
A VT cking train was sent to the scene
of the accident by Superintendent Hager
about 40 p. m. with = surgeon to care for
the two Injured men. They we're taken to
Brownsville and housed al the City hotel.
The injuries of The two men we're examined
and Chaplin was found suffering from
broken arm and none, and Reddy has his
spine slightly injured.
The track was cleared 10 time for the
passage of regular trains.
The men will probably be brought in
this morning and taken to the companys
hospital, where they will receive the very
best att n,ion, surgical and otherwise.