Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-05-01

what the West Virginia Corporations Are
Doing.

1Otuk.
The Ohio River Company is making
extensive fills along Second avenue, In
Huntington.
The accident record for March shows
q total OF 1s6, with passengers and
SO employees killed, and lib passengers
and II employees injured
Buckhannon wants another railroad,
and there is some talk Of one being
built in the near future that will con-
meet with the G. & G. at Bellington.
The B. 81 o. has issued handsome
pamphlet setting forth the ADVANTAGES
Of the country through which the line
passes in Virginia, West Virginia and
Maryland. The publication is in Ger
man.
Engine 700, rebuilt with new boiler
and machinery at the shops in Grafton,
was put upon the road Wednesday.
Morris Stubbns and his efficient force
of nachinists did the work on the new
engine.
A double track is being made on the
G. & o. railroad below Hinton. by ex-
cavating roadbed on the opposite side
OF the river from where the road now
runs. Continuous work is going on for
about sixty miles.
The new side tracks and switches
built by the Chesapeake and Ohio and
Ohio River railroads in the yards q
short distance below the Chesapeake
anb Ohio freight depot, at Huntington,
are now being used.
The orange with white trimmings
that the Chesapeake and Ohio paSsen-
ger depot and the other buildings here
have been painted in, reminds US OF
pumpkin time and immaculate panta-
lets at a husking Decentralization
Commercial.
The Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling
has, Ii Is stated, made arrangements
with the Baltimore and Ohio to occupy
the shops, roundhouses and other build
ings at Bellaire, vacated by the Balti-
more and Ohio; the Cleveland, LOrain
and Wheeling moving its terminus
from Bridgeport to Bellaire.
Eleven suits have been brought by
the property owners on Second avenue,
Huntington, against the Huntington
and Big Sandy and Ohio River railroads
for damages to property. The amounts
sued for aggregate 100000. The plain
tiffs claim that the noise OF running
trains annoys them. 1t is very whim-
steal grounds for q suit for damage.
Railroads cannot run through Hunting
ton without running close to some
body's property, and II 1t were not for
the railroads property at Huntington
would not be very valuable. There Is
more property being damaged for lack
OF railroads than there is by the noise
Of operating them.
The B. & o. railroad is moving right
along with its Improvements at Har-
per's Ferry. The old Potomac Hotel is
being torn down to make room for the
new track, and the livery stables OF
Messrs. Jones and Cummins have been
demolished. Several gangs of workmen
are blasting the way for the tracks AT
the foot of the bluffs, and all the work
is being pushed rapidly. The tunnel
on the opposite side of the river is
about half finished. Work is also be-
ing pushed along on the now bridge
piers, several of which are nearing
their completed size. A strong effort
will be made to complete the change
there in time to accommodate large
part Of the Worlds Fair traffic.
CAPTAIN A. j. Mossburg, conductor Of
the Baltimore and Cumberland accom-
modation train, on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, which left Baltimore at
four o'clock Thursday morning, had a
narrow escape from 3 terrible death
about three hours later. The train had
reached North Mountain, about twelve
miles above Msrtinsourg, when just as
Captain Mossburg was stepping from
one coach to another, the cOupling-pin
broke and the train parted. He fell be-
tween the cars, but with great presence
of mind seized the ironwork Of the bum
per of one of the cars, and saved him.
self from being run over. The parting
of the train caused the breaking of the
air pipes on the car to which Captain
Mossburg was clinging, and this finally
brought the detached part OF the train
to standstill, but not until he had be-
come nearly exhausted and his limbs
had dragged over the railway ties for a
considerable distance. The train was
reunited as soon as possible, and Capt.
Mossburg was sent on a special train to
Baltimore.