Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-09
LOCAL And GENERAL
ITEMS CLEANED FROM CITY YARDS AND
DEPOTS.
Personal Gossip and Transportation Intelligence
Construction News Concerning West
Virginia Lines


; includes 10,051 miles of double track,
and 242, O43 miles of yard track and sid
| ings. The total number OF employees IN
| the service of railways on June 30, 1898,
! was s73, 6O2, being an increase OF %, 1S7.
! or this total OF employees IS, 3s4 are as
| signed to the work of general admins
rration; $50, 232 to maintenance OF way
and structures; IT'S, AGA to maintenance
| Of EQUIPMENT, and 397, 915 to conducting
Transportation. the remainder, S,627, be-
ing lnclassifed by the carriers making
report. The number of railway en-
poyes killed during the pear was 2,727,
! being greater by 173 than those killed
| during the previous year The number
of employees injured was 31,720, being
greater By 3.462 than the num-
number OF passengers killed during the
year was 200, being less by II than the
number killed the previous year, and
the number injured was 1929. being .
| in excess of the number injured
the previous year. OF the total
number OF deaths to employees
on account OF railway accidents,
433 were due TO coupling and un-
coupling cars. GA to falling from trains
| and engines, 70 TO overhead obstruc-
tions, PAT to collisions, and l53 TO de-
AILMENTS, the remainder being due to
/ causes not so clearly defined. II will be
seen the annual number of railroad
| casualties was exceeded by few battles
during the late war for the year given
the totals being 3,026 killed and 5,05S
wounded.
The Roaring Creek and Charleston
! Company, which is building a line
through upper West Virginia, is max
ing rapid progress The line is COM
peted 10 point five miles above Wom-
elsdorf, TO which point, from the West
Virginia Central and Pittsburg, at
| Bretz, 1t is already open and hauling
considerable coal and timber. The
work beyond Womesdorf Is making
such Roadway that five mills more can
be opened in few weeks. Four OF the
bridges were tested last Friday, and
Chief Engineer Bell reports that the
big cut on Flat Bush, being made by
contractor Thomas Gilhooley, will be
ready to open for trains in few days.
This will make possible the laying OF
track four miles beyond.
| w. c. Russell has been appointed I'm
provement Agent OF the West Virginia
Central and Pittsburg, an Office recent
| ~ created. His duties will oe TO an
Swer inquiries concerning the natural
resources of the country along the line
of the road, secure the cooperation Of
| capital and labor for their development
| 4 ha Unnn n
| railroad and the country contiguous
thereto.
The was a very large excursion on
| the Pan Handle from Pittsburg to this
| city Yesterday. There were ten coaches
of visiting young mems Catholic socie-
ties OF Pittsburg and that locality.
About 500 persons accompanied the ex-
| cursion, which arrived in the city at
1920 o'clock in the morning and left
at o'clock at night.
Yesterday there was very large
consignment OF live stock passed
through the city. The train was in
two sections and contained 43 cars. The
stock was brought from the interior
| districts of this State, and was trans
| ferred from the O. r. TO the Pan Han
die 10 be taken to East Liberty, Pitts
| burg. SQss
Waterman Hatfield, OF the B. e 0.
| freight depot, who has been on his vaca-
ton, will go TO work again tonight.
| Thomas Byrne, the night gate keeper at
the b. e. o. depot, who has been taking
his vacation, will be on duty again to-
night. John Nary has been acting as
Waterman in the place OF Mr.. Hatfield.
The Gauley Lumber Company will
soon com plete a railway from its mills
at Belva, w. Va, at the head OF Blue
| Creek, down that stream three miles TO
Spruce Fork, and up the latter four
| miles The company own tract OF
60, 900 acres Of hard wood, and will eX-
| tend the line as the timber is cut.
On and after to-day, acd during the
continuance of time table No. 10, dated
| Nav Goth, 1894, trains Nos. as aud AZ.
| on the Baltimore division of the B. & o.
between Cumberland and Keyser, and
on the Parkersburg and Wheeling divi-
sion, will be run daily.
The italians employed along the line
Of the Roaring Creek Railroad and in
the mines in that region have struck
for higher wages, but are not likely TO
get mach sympathy from the workmen
of orther nationalitles who are working
in the same region.
Eight car loads Of coke for Mingo
Junction arrived in the city yesterday
by the B. & O. The coke was trans.
ferred to the w. d l.. E. The product
came from the Connellsvills coke re-
gions.
Where the 3. & @. freight house now
stands was the first place Ia the city
where nails were made. The first nail
mill of this locality stood on the present
site OF the depot. This was In the year
| 1856.
There Is a understanding between
the w. & l.. E. engineers and the COM
many regarding the length of the runs
some of the engineers are compelled TO
make. Some of them talk of striking.
The contract for the large retaining
wall to be built for the new Panhandle
depot will be let this week. The wall
is TO be completed in three months after
the contract Is let.
n. E. Boord, Brice Bssett and W.
Klevis, all the B. & o. yard force, are
home from a frog hunting trip out to
Glenn Easton. They had good luck,
and lots Of fun.
A slight change Of time went into
effect on the c., L. & w. There was
but q few minutes change in the run
ming of any OF the trains.
Tomorrow the w. 81 L. E. railway
will give a big excursion to Cleveland
that persons may be attendance At the
Y.P. 5. c. Z. convention.
F.F. Agnew, the well-known yard
conductor of the 3. 81 O., is home after
spending his weeks vacation at ST.
Mary's down the river.