The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-09
ON RAIL AND oRossrIa
Local and General Gossip in Railway
Circlea


direct Pullman service between Chicago
and San Diego. This is the largest con-
tinuous sleeping car service in the world
2.3l1 miles.
The Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
will assume operations and control Of the
Florida Southern on Jan. 1. 1t is under
stood that there will be only minor changes
made necessary by the transfer Of control
The Chicago Times says: 1t is reported
that eastern capitalists have been for some
time considering scheme that is of much
greater magnitude than the collapsed
clearing house arrangement. 1t provides
for the creation of a syndicate which is to
secure controlling interest in all western
roads and manage them as one system.
The Pullman Sleeping Car Company will
fight the measure, giving the railroad COM
missioners power to regulate the charges of
sleeping car companies, etc, before the
House committee, and show the injustice of
the bill, which will very seriously interfere
with that company. Their attorneys say
that the measure is clearly unconstitutional,
and should it pass they believe the courts
will so declare it.
The receiver for the Savannah Griffin
and North Alabama railroad, ex-Gov. Nc
Daniel, recently appointed by Judge Mar
shall j. Clarke, viii not take bold of The
road until the supreme court passes upon
the test case, i'll which the Central's stock is
involved In case it should be cancelled the
road will pass into the hands of the minor
itv Col. w. +. H. Searcy will he brought
forward as receiver if this should come to
pass
Two new box cars for the Augusta and
Manchester division of the Atlantic Coast
Line were received in Charleston Tuesday
Nv the Northwestern railroad. They were
the first of 300 new cars which have been
ordered for the Augusta and Manchester
| and the Wilson and Fayetteville roads. and
| now being made at the Tredegar works in
Richmond and at the Coast line shops in
| Florence and Wilmington. The Augusta
and Manch sster road is intended TO connect
Orangeburg with Augusta. Work is now
being done on tine section from Sumter to
| the Santee river, and the fifteen miles Of
| road bet cen these two points are nearly
| completed.
The regular passenger train on the South
western road, which left Macon Thursday
morning, bound to Montgomery, collided
with freight train five miles below Cuth-
bert, smashing up both engines consider
ably. The passenger coaches were well
| filed with passengers at the time, and the
collision Jared them up, bruising some,
| but, so far as can be learned, none We're
| seriously hurt. Conductor George ID.
| Smith of the passenger train was standing
in the mail car at the time of the accident.
| The front end of the car was smashed in
and he was hurt about the shoulders and
| knees, but no bones were broken. The
truck, of the mail and baggage cars left the
| tracks, blocking the road. Both engineers
and firemen escaped with slight bruises.
The Hickle Locomotive Works of New
| York have completed locomotive which is
| intended to surpass anything in the railroad
| line in this country. 1t was designed by G.
| S. Strong of New York, and with two or.
| binary passenger cars attached, it is ex-
| peCted TO make the s. eed of eighty miles
per hour. 1t is the largest engine ever
| built, aud the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
| Fe road has already purchased it on a ven
ture. The first thing that would strike the
observer is the singular position of the en-
| gineer's cab. 1t is perched on top of the
| boiler, about the center, and is occupied by
| tie engineer alone as another cab is built
behind the boiler for the fireman. The en-
CINE alone will weigh fifty-five tons, and
with tender, which is built to ride like a
passenger coach will weigh eighty-fiye
! tons
The New York RAILROAD Gazette give
the statistics of casualties 10 employees and
| passengers on American railroads during
| the month of October 1888 There were OF
employees forty-fv killed and 120 wounded
| OF passengers there were seventy killed anc
ninety-nine wounded. The number of pas
sengers carried in that time are not given
| but obviously the passengers carried greatly
| outnumbered the railway hands engaged in
the management of the trains which die
| the damage. We have l6j of the railroad
| people of perhaps 10, 900 killed ald wounded
| while l69 passengers out OF some lUO 0O(
| were killed or hurt This is not a high
average for passengers but it is for train
men, showing that their business is almost
as dangerous as war. One and half pei
| cent of casualties per month, or Is pei
cent a year of killed and wounded, make.
a formidable account of peril for the mer
| who run with the trains.
| The Americas Republican says that tht
work that has been in progress for the pas
| two or three weeks of substituting Stool
| ties on the Americas. Preston and LumpkiI
railroad for the small ones now in use, pre-
paratory 10 changing the guage of tn,
| road, is about completed. There were only
| about seven miles to be changed, and the
| entire distance between Americus and Able
| vile is ready for the change, which will bt
made shortly. The company has placed ar
order for four locomotives with the Bald
| win locomotive works, and these will bt
sent. out just as soon as completed. The
| Americas, Preston and Lumpkin will be ex
tended either to Savannah or Brunswick
shortly, giving to Americas and that sec
| tion of the country an independent line Il
tide water. The road is in a most flourish
ing and prosperous condition, the receipts
for the month of November amounting &c
upward Of $4,000 agai st $1,000 for tbs
corresponding month last year.
The Montgomery Advertiser says that
the engineers of the Americas, Preston nno
| Lumpkln railroad have reached Mont
gomery, having surveyed the route from
Browns landing, on the Chattahoochee
river, twenty miles below Columbus. to 8
point within mile and half of Mont
gomery. An Advertiser reporter asked
Chief Engineer Wright Campbell Sunday
in regard TO the route. He said that IL was
only preliminary survey and that the
road would be located at later date. He
said that all surveys are being made for n
broad gauge, and that the whole road i'll
be made a standard gauge carly in the
spring The preliminary survey runs two
miles north Of Scale and five miles
south Of Tuskcgee and runs into Mont.
comery between the Western and Mont
gomery and Eufaula railroads Mr.. Camp
bell said that he did not know when con
struction will begin, but be thought the
purpose OF the management of the road was
| to commerce as soon as the preliminaTie'
are arranged. There are already sixty
miles of the road constructed east OF Amer
Gus in the direction of Savannah, and the
rest OF the route has been surveyed anc
located and is now ready for the construc
ton TO begin. The road now runs TO poin
about six miles east of the Chattahoochee
river.
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