Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-02
storms in the South.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, March, S1-
Heavy rains have caused wsshouts on
various railroads and all the mails are
delayed. The bridge Scross the Cohss
river, st WelumpEa WAS wsS>td
away. i construction train went
through the bridge over the Tallapooss
river, on the Columbus x Western
railroad, between Opelika and Dan
ulile, aud the engine &ud two cars,
with the engineer and fifteen hands
went down. 1t Is feared some
OF the men were les; cries of |
! distress were heard but moth !
ing as to their fate is vet /.
known.
HEAVY RAINS STILL CONTINUE.
cial to the Constitution from Nor.h !
Georgia snd Alabama show heavy |
| losses from the freshet II has rained |
continuously since Sunday, and at |
midnight tonight is pouring in tor
rents. The rain fall in Atlanta has |
already been over 10 inches. The |
rivers are flooded, and great loss of |
property is reported
Every railroad leading out Of Alan- |
ia has suspended traffic Many bridges |
are down and it is thought that others
will fall tonight. 1t is estimated that |
the damage will amount 10 s., ,0O0, 900 |
and 1t may be mere.
TENNESSEE FLOODED.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, March al
Unprecedented rains have fallen in |
this section for the past AS hours the
total ram fall ranging from to 10 !
~.
uessee water shed AT 9 p m., the |
river here marked $50 feet and rising |
at the rate OF 10 inches per hours. Ad- |
vices from above indicate that the |
rise will reach 45 and maybe so feet. |
No trains on any of the eightr all
roads nave lett or arrived since last |
night, and NO prospects of the traffic
beng resumed tomorrow. On the |
East Tennessee railroad, heavy wash
outs and slides have occurred On |
the Cincinnati Southern the bridge at |
Rock Creek has been carried away.
Tracks of the Nashville & Chatta-
nooga, Albany, Great Southern & |
M mphis, and Charleston railroads |
at the foot Of Lookout mountain, are
undermined and the bridges IN the |
vicinity are IN danger
Coal for Next Winter.
Chicago Herald.
AT meeting of six or eight gen |
tlemen IN the parlors of New York |
mansion one evening recently it was |
decided to limit the supply Of bard |
coal which The American people are
10 have during the coming year ID
| 33, 900, 600 tons, and to increase the |
| wholesale price 25 cents per ton. 1t |
is alleged that further raise in price |
| will be caz.tted later on. Twenty |
| five cents ton on SO. 000, 900 tons |
would amount to IS 250, ,00G, a snug
sUn, and tax which may be increaS-
ed by doubling or quadrupling at any |
moment that the six or eight kindly |
gentlemen feel so disposed
These men are the presidents OF the |
coal roads of Pennsylvania. They |
are in combination and they control |
| the anthracite mines as arbitrarily as
though they owned them. No coal |
can go to market unless it passes over
their roads, and no owEer OF mine |
can operate it and live unless he ac-
czdes to their terms. As at present |
adjusted the capacity OF the anthracite |
mines in PeDnsy lvania is about |
! 60, 900, coo tons per annum. To work |
them to their utmost limit would give |
the miners who are there employed |
steady work, and with an abundance |
of coal the people would getit cheaper
and consume more of it. But the |
profits Of the ring would be relatively |
| smaller.
The six or eight gentlemen there
| fore meet after dinner aed limit the |
production. This means idleness and |
want for thousands of miners and |
| ther families for six months OF the |
year that is 10 come, and with linn |
tied output and tariff which prevents |
importatIons, 1t means hign coal to |
all the people-as high as the worthy
six or eight may see fit to make it.
Tbs practice is sometimes called
manufacturing a sca1city." Coal is
| to be scarce next winter, but because
the men who control it wish it to be-
La the United States is deposited more
than 20 per cent Of all the coal yet
found on this planet. 1t is naturally
cheap. By just such schemes as are
! here outlined it has been made unnat-
urally high, while the men who mine
it have been reduced to beggary.