Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-26
TIE RAILROADS.
Information of West Virginia aud Near
by Towns.

by Towns.
The B. & o. report shows net gain
in earnings Of S37, 5ss ovel I year.
T. ]. Cole has resigned the position OF
Trainmaster of the Monongahela River
railroad. o. j. Sands has resigned the
position of Treasurer OF the same road,
the position being taken by Mr.. j. d.
Sands.
The Norfolk and Western has large
force Of men at work on the Ohio River
extension of its line, putting In new
ballast and otherwise generally improv-
ing that division. The division will be
ballasted throughout with broken stone.
The Directors Of the New Cumber-
land & Pittsburg road, about to be built
from New Cumberland TO Pitts6urg, are
as follows: John E. Davidson, Pitts
burg. President; James McCrea, j. j.
Brooks. John w. Renner, William Null
Inns, A. McElevy, 5. c. Scott, Pitts
burg.
The big engines from the Baldwin
Locomotive Works are attracting
great deal Of attention on the b. 81 o.
Five are already on the branch and the
railroad men are expecting five more.
The engines are monsters and can draw
about double the loads OF the regular
mogul or consolidation" engine.
A radical change will be made In all
OF the engines on this end of the road.
The freight engines now in use are to
be leased to various other roads and
some of them will be placed on ballast
and way freight in place OF the smaller
engines now used. The engines now up
here are the l343, 1874, 1886, 1892 and
1395.-GrGfton Leader.
One OF Lincoln county's most essential
needs is a railroad, if not up Mud River
Valley, then up the Guyandotte Valley.
The latter would relieve in a great
measure the burden OF travel from
points in the interior Of the county, and
would prove a lasting benefit In dozen
other ways. Sometime ago the Hunt
ington papers were agitating this rail-
road question, but recently the matter
seems to have been dropped into state
OF indifference. Let US have revival
of the question and probably something
definite may be arrived at.-Ltncotn
Citizen.
On Thursday last Mr.. VIM. Susgeon,
conductor of the westbound local
freight. met with an accident that is
without a parallel in the history OF
railroading. Mr.. Surgeon was riding
on the pilot when just east OF the
White Sulphur the pin worked out OF
the pilot bar, which dropped on the
cross-trles. The force with which the
bar struck the ties caused 1t TO reoound
high enough to catch Mr.. Spurgeon's
leg between the bar and the pilot-slats
of the engine. The force with which
the train struck the bar crushed Mr..
SIS leg below the knee into pulp. he
was taken to Ronceverte, whore DR..
Gates amputated the limb.
The junction Of the branches OF the
| Ranawha and Michigan and Chesapeake
aud Ohio now building will be formed
| in the Kanawha Valley, within few
DAYS after July l. Through trains
] both east and west, will be running on
a new Joint schedule before July Is.
| The tracklaying on the Kanawha and
! Michigan has been completed To Gauley
river. the termsuus OF that line. The
Kanawha and Michigan bridge over
Gauley river and the Chesapeake and
Ohio bridge over New river are both
completed, and the only remaininE
work to be done is the laying OF the
short piece of track between the two
bridges. which will take less than tive
weeks. The Chesapeake and Ohio Il
pushinp its road along New river, aDC
has twelve miles OF it now completed
and will have fifteen miles ready fol
locomotives by July l. A heavy force
is at work on the grade of the line al
Twenty Mile Creek which will connec
at the mouth of Gsuiey river.