Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-08-14
RAILROAD NEWS.
WHAT is BEING DONE ON sOME WEST VIR-
GINA LINES
A Number of Bad Accidents at Various Points
Miscellaneous Railroad In
ielligsnce

Several Is. o. ". fireman nave Oeen
furloughed and engineers put back to
firing.
John Brohard has been appointed
secretary to President Geo. w. Thomp-
son, OF the Ohio River road.
The B. & 0.'s Sunday excursions
from Pittsburg have lost none Of their
oId-time popularity. Yesterday the
trains were well patroniZed.
Work on the new railway line on the
Ohio side Of the river is being rapidly
finished up. The rails are all down,
aud big force OF linemen are at work
stringing the wires.
A great many people are arranging
to leave for Chicago over the Pan
Handle next Sunday, on the occasion OF
the groesrs excursion. From rs 70
PCS will embark for the trip.
The Wheeling and Elm Grove road
illustrated its capacity to handle
crowd On Thursday evening, when IL
hauled $500 people to the Park In
about al hour and ten minutes.
A fireman named Bowel met with
an accident last Wednesday, when at q
point near Martinsburg, which may be
the cause OF his death. As IL is, one OF
bis legs will have to be amputated.
The Dry Fork railroad has been sur
veyed from Bretz, on the West Virginia
Central and Pttsburg, along the Dry
Fork river, branch OF the Cheat,
through Tucker, Randolph, Pocahon-
tas and Greenbrier counties, to a point
on the Chesapeake and Ohio.
John w. Lloyd and Henry Skldmore,
two OF the persons who were so badly
hurt near Centrala while assisting In
removing a wrecked tender from the
track, have brought suit against the
West Virginia & Pittsburg Railroad Co.,
the former for $4,000, and the latter
for $40, 600.
Tracklaying on the Fairmont, Nor
gsptown g. Pittsburg railroad between
Morgantown and Smithdeld, Pa, Ia
progressing rapidly. The Drake &
Stratton Company, which has the con-
tract, has large force of men at work
on the line, and expects to have the
line completed within the next two
months and ready for trains. SThe grad
ing is all completed and the ties on the
ground.
The Gauley extension OF the Kama
wha and Michigan, 80 miles long, be-
tween Maiden, near Charleston. and the
junction with the Chesapeake and Ohio
road at the Gauley river, was opened
last week. The stations on the line
are Maiden, Burning Springs, Plat,
Witcher, Peel, Shrewsbury, Cedar
Grove, Riverside, Roe, Cannelton,
Johnston, Carbon, Kanawha Falls,
Gauley Bridge and G. & o. Junction.
Mr.. b. L. Kildow, brakeman on the
third division of the B. & O., met with
an accident, near Oakland, last Sunday
afternoon, that resulted in his death
short time aiterward. A severe rain
storm was raging, and Mr.. Kildow had
started back over his train to get coat
from the cab. In some manner he lost
his footing, and was precipitated be-
tween the cars and under the wheels.
One leg and one arm was badly crushed
and one hand cut OF.
A sad accident occurred at Keyser
last Tuesday night which resulted In
the death Of Pierce Lynch. He was
employed by the Baltimore and Ohio at
that place receiving refrigerator cars.
While at work on top OF car about 10
o'clock Tuesday night he missed his
footing and fell headlong TO the ground,
distance of about fourteen feet,
crushing his skull in horrible manner,
from which he died Wednesday morn
ing at o'clock, never regaining con-
seriousness.
Mai. John w. Moore, who Is chief en-
gineer OF the Dry Fork Railway Com
pany, this State, has put party OF en-
gineers on the preliminary lines OF this
road, incorporated in this State a few
months ago to build line from Elkins,
on the West Virginia Central and Pitts
burg, to the headwaters OF Roaring
Creek. This scheme has now been par
italy merged into the Point Pleasant,
Buckhannon and Tygart's Valley rail-
road, the intention being 10 build a
line from Buckhannon TO Elkins along
the valley of Roaring Creek.
Henry Heller, brakeman on the
Georges Creek railroad, living at No.
10 water station on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, had miraculous escape
from a horrible death last Saturday
afternoon at half-past five o'clock. He
attempted TO board freight train, but
fell between, the cars. His body doubled
into bait as he shot between the rails
and it cleared the wheels. The trucks
struck him and rolled him oyer and
over. Suddenly, as the train gained
speed, the truck struck him with adj
ditional force and sent his body flying
out In the ditch, clear OF the entire
train. He was unconcious when found,
but no bones were broken, his worst
wound being nearly two feet long on
his back.
The surveyors who have run the
lines Of the West Virginia Central Rail-
road from Cum oerland to Hsgerstown
have finished their work and have been
discharged. There is DO real indica-
ton that the work of construction will
be commenced anywhere In the near
future, and it is just possible that all
these preliminaries are part OF big
bluff that railroad companies sometimes
indulge In. What the West Virginia
Central really wants is to buy the Chesa-
peske and Ohio canal and use II for a
road bed. II IL can't get This II viii take
the Western Maryland Railroad il 1t
can be obtained cheaply, and In this lat
ter event il Will build the line from
Cumberland to HagerstowD or Williams
port. Unless II gets the Western Ma
ryland the line just surveyed will never
be built