The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-25
RAIL AND CROsSTIE.

The new steels rails are being rapidly
! laid on the Wrigatsgille and TennilIe rail
| road
! The old board of directors of the Florida
| Midland Railway has been reelected. The
| Apopka Advertiser says that it is now I'M
! derstood that sufficient means will be fur
! nished to complete the road into Kissimmee
! at once
At meeting Of the directors of the Ten
nessee Midland Railroad in Memphis, John
! Overflow Jr, of Memphis, was elected pres
! i'll mt, to succeed Gen. A. S. Buford All
| the other officials remain unchanged. Gen.
! Buford was recently elected president of
the Virginia Construction Company, which
! is building the road.
| Mai A. c. Knapp, traffic manager Geor-
! gia Southern and Florida Railroad, was in
| the city yesterday en- route to Jacksonville
He stated to MORNING NEWS man that
his road was doing splendid business, the
work south OF Valdosta was being pushed
with great vlgor. and by August trains
would lie running to Lake City, Fla. 1t is
expected TO reach Palatka in the fall, in
! time to become the great Florida short
line for the next seasons business
The South Carolina railroad commits
sionels, in consequence of the complaints in
| the South Carolina papers in regard to
what was stated to be the bad and danger
Gus condition of the Port Royal and Au-
| gusta road, recently made careful ex-
animation Of the entire lire. While i'll
places the road is not in the best condi-
| ton, the co commissioners did not think the
complaints justifiable. After reporting upon
| the condition of the various sections
| Of the road, the bridges trestles, ETC., the
| commissioners said: Several accidents to
FIRE ght trains have occurred la ely, and the
| causes of same were Investigated as far as
practicable. 1t was found that the most
serious we're at point near Beaufort.
| where ten cars were derailed, but none
| broken up and, although the cause cannot
| be definitely ascertained, it was in all
| probability due to broken truck. o 70
near Eilenton, where two cars were broken
up. was known to be caused by a truck
| breaking. and one on Whale branch trestla
! about the midiie-was caused by a car
loaded with fertilizers breaking in half
| This last tested thoroughly the strength
aid security Of tilS trestle, upon which no
rep tirS whatever were necessary in con-
sequence of the accident, and attention is
called TO the fact that the excellent
guard rail on same, which is securely spiked
Oh each tile, was the means of saving nearly
the whole train from being precipitated into
tne water. WORK is apparently being
pushed with considerable activity along
this road. Three bridge gangs are steadily
eiutIOyel anu buo SecGlOu nduuS average
more than a ma1 to the mile. The pro-
tracted spell of rainy weather (unprece-
denied in the history of this road has not
only prevented the steady continuance of
work, but is the cause in some
! places Of the bad condition of
the road, which cannot be worked
on without making ma tiers worse until the
weather becomes settled. A large number
of new ties are BENG distributed along the
liae and will be placed in the track during
the next few months. No accidents have
| occurred the passenger trains, and no
lives nave bean lost and no one injured in
those occurring to the freight traffic. The
schedules Of passenger trains seem to be ar
ranged with due regard to safety, running
with great care over such portions of the
road as are in bad order, and the authori-
ties were und to be fully alive to the ne
cessity of pushing forward the betterment
Of the road as fast as practicable.