The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-02
CARS JUMPED TRACK
EIGHT EMPTIEs WRECKED IN
 YARDS.
Were Being Transferred by . Louis- vile & Nashville Switch $En- gine-0ther News in the
 Railway World. " s

At o'clock this morning eight empty box cars attached to switch engine of the Louisville and Nashville Rail- road Company jumped the track in the railroad yard near Hartley's Boiler Works and two of them were torn al- most to pieces.
 A train of about twenty-five empty cars was being transferred by an en- zine in charge of Engineer Blake. The cars were being drawn at a moderate rate of speed. when, because of some defect in the rails, they left the track. The engine was stopped as quickly as possible but not before two of the cars had turned at right angles across the track in the yards and were badly damaged. The tracks were torn from beneath them and the walls of the cars were smashed. The car next the en- zine did not turn from its course, but the second and third cars from the engine turned at right angles and were stretched lengthwise across the net work of tracks in the yerd. The cars immediately behind the wrecked cars closed up and were next the engine when the train was stopped.
 The wreck occurred on a high em- bankment and had the cars been drawn at a high rate of speed they would have turned over and fallen to the bottom of the ravine. distance of about sev- enty-fiye feet.
 s. c. Moore, Night Yardmaster. and a force of men were called to the scene and at an early hour this morning they had the main line cleared but the wrecked cars had not been removed.
 The striking machinists on the Southern Railway will have very little if any effect on the Mobile and Ohio branch of the Southern in Montgomery, as like the Seaboard shops here & very small force of men is employed.
 Roadmaster Ansley of the Plant Sys- tenn has begun the work of replacing the sixty pound rail between here and Pinckard with eighty pound rail. Last winter fifty miles of the 10S miles from Montgomery5to Pinokard was equipped with the heavy steel rail, the work be- ing done from Montgomery to Pinck- ard and 1t was completed last night to Dermid, six miles from the city.
 All of the uptown railroad ofices yesterday inaugurated the movement of closing at l o'clock Saturday.
 The Seaboard Air Line has secured the local delegates to the National Convention of the Travellers Protective Association, and the party will leave over the Georgia and Alabama at S:2O o'clock this morning.
 The Lake Shore Limited" over the New York Central, the Boston and AL bany and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroads, between New York and Chicago, has been furnished with a new equipment of Pullman cars which reach the highest grade in car construction. They are finished in hardwoods. embellished with marqQet- ry. and the seat coverings, carpets, ceilings, etc. are toned in colors to harmonize with the woods which are used. One feature which is especially noticeable is the absence of heavy carvings, hangings and grille work. which have given away to higher grade of beauty which has been at- tained in elegance of design and color ing. The trains are lighted throughout bv electricity, which Is generated in the baggage car. Beach section. Is provided with a reading lamp, and in She smoking and observation rooms side reading lamps are placed in con- yenient locations. Each train carries a ladies' maid and an expert stenog- rapher. The series of names selectSd for the cars are all from Shakes pearean characters.
 At the meeting of the American As sociation of eGneral Passenger and Ticket Agents at Buffalo in October. 1900, a committee was appointed. com posed of the chairman of the several