Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-07-29
The News of the Railroads.

HS preliminary WOTk on the Dig
improvements TO be made by the
Baltimore l. Ohio Railroad Company
at Harper's Ferry has been com
menced by Ehmann, Jones & Thorne.
the contractors, and the firm is
is getting together the plant neces-
sary to build the great bridge and
bore the tunnel The hosting APP
paratus, which will be supplied by
the Lidgerwood Company, of New
York, will inclGde a steel cable %
inches in diameter, with a total
length Of l 400 feet. of which 900 feet
will be single span of the Potomac
river 80 feet above the water. An
immense travelling crane will be OPP
Grated along the cable by means of
subsidiary cables, for which a CO.
horsepower engine will be used on
each shore. The apparatus is guar
anteed to carry twenty tons, and will
be used to convey the stone and other
materials TO the pier desired The
materials will then be lowered into
the immense caissons, which will have
TO be sunk in the river wherever n
pier is to be built. Cut stone from
the Gettysburg Granite Company's
quarries, which are owned by Messrs.
Jones 4 Thorne, will be used in the
construction. The tunnel which is TO
be constructed at the Maryland end
of the bridge will also he eXcavated
by the same firm. The work is all
through solid rock. The boring will
be done by five compressed air drills,
and Will be carried on day and night,
as it is desired TO complete the i'm
provements in time to accommodate
the travel to the Worlds Fair over
the new route.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company will expend s75, 900 upon its
exhibit at the Worlds Colum bian EI
position in Chicago next year. BY
order of Vice President Lord Major
J. G.. Pangborn is vested with the
full direction of all matters pertaining
to the company's representation and
will control its management during
the exposition. Major PangbOrn has
secured from the Traction Company
the old Powhatan Garden property at
the western end Of Baltimore street,
and an extensive plant has been put
in for the construction of full-size re
productions in wood of the early eX
amples of motive power and equip
ment upon the pioneer railways of
the world. The evolution of the loco
motive will be striking feature of
the exhibit and will commence with |
the first conception of the use of steam
for propulsion Of vehicles upon land
of which history has record-that of
Sir Isaac Newton, in 1880. The devel- |
opment OF the essentials OF locomotive |
perfection will be followed in the orig |
inal size reproductions, all of which |
will be so maze as to permit Of the |
workings of the representations of
the machinery, afTording a practical
comprehension Of the ideas and con
ceptions Of those who have made pos
sible the locomotive OF to-day.-Sun.
A freight train going east on the b.
& O. Railroad last Saturday evening
had in it two cars upon which was
loaded some very large pieces OF lum
Der. Just as the train was passing
Dutfields the trucks Of one of these
cars jumped the rails and let the logs
drop. The tracks were just ripped al
to pieces, although, strange TO say
none Of the cars was damaged save
that one 1t took a long time to re-
pair the track, and In the meantime
a big train-load of people who had at
tended the Catholic picnic at Island
Park sat on the cars at Engle's Switch
until midnight in various degrees of
misery.
About midnight last Thursday night
John II. Stouffer, conductor, and
Alvey Funk, flagman, were instantly
killed on the Norfolk & Western Rail
road near Rileyville, about 80 miles
south of this place. Just before the
freight train upon which they were
on duty reached trestle,a car full Of
peaches broke down next to the
caboose and began to smash things.
1t is supposed that the men, fearing
the train would go over the trestle,
jumped off just as they were passing
through cut. Both were instantly
killed. Stoutfer's neck was broken
and his head crushed. Funk had
both legs broken and was badly
bruised and hurt internally. The men
lived in Hagerstown, and their re-
mains were sent there for interinent.