The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-18
REPAIRING THE ROAD TRAINS ARE NOW RUNNING ,+ INTO MOBILE.
Traffic on New Orleans Division of Louisville 6 Nashville Road is Still Suspended-Superinten-
 dent Mckinney Returns.

The blockade of passenger traffic on the Louisville and Nashville south of Mobile continues.
 Regular trains were run from Cin- cinnati to Mobile and return yesterday, but not a wheel turned-except hand leans division. Yesterday, as on Fri day, all Texas. California and Louisi- ana mail was sent from here to Bir- mingham, from which place it went round by Meridian to New Orleans. Through passengers and baggage com ing by Montgomery went to Mobile all right, the Mobile and Ohio taking them from Mobile to Meridian.
 General Manager Evans, Chief En- gineer Montfort and Superintendent Marshall of the New Orleans division, are along the line of that division and about 500 men have been at work on the breaks night and day since Thursday. It was expected that the line would be ready for trains at midnight last night, but up to an early. hour this morning nothing further had been heard from there. If they got through last night, it $ remarkably quick work, consider ing the extent of the damage, as in the great storm of 1893 it took seventeen days to get the division in condition to run trains. If the line was opened last night, train No. 4, leaving New Or leans at o'clock this morning and ar irving here at 6:30 o'clock this evening, will be the first train over the division since Wednesday night, when No. ar- rived here at 6:l5 o'clock Thursday morning.
 The result of the recent storm has been to put another clincher in the claim that Superintendent Mckinney has made for the Mobile and Mont gom- cry division that 1t Is just about one of the best pieces of track in this part of the country.
 For a year or SO back Mir Mckinney has been pilihg slag on this roadbed, the result being to make it as solid as a rock. When the storm of 1893 struck the Mobile and Montgomery division It had only a sand foundatio and it took three days of the hardest kind of worx to get 1t in shape for the running of trains. This time even with the slag foundation the track was pretty badly used up. There were eleven miles of the track under water in the danger ous Tensas swamp region but the slag foundation held most of 1t in place. Several bridges and culverts were washed out. but just little over twen- ty-four hours was required to put the division in shape for the handling of all trains.
 MT. Mckinney was in his office yes terday. and reports pretty rough ex- perience down the road. He and Mas ter of Trains Mizell left here Thursday Of0hf riOht in fha tanfh nf tho hiO storm and began the work of repairing immediately. It was & wild ride, he said. The wind howled and trees and telegraph wires crashed across the track. water came down in sheets. There was a gang of section men in the swamp Thursday but when the storm broke in all It's violence Thursday evening they had to run for their lives.
 Numbers of wild animals, driven in by the fearful northeast wind and rain came up out of the jungle to the track. Near the Tensas bridge a deer was killed and another one was killed a mile or so north of there. Workmen killed a bear on the track Thursday night.
 The passengers on train No 1 that left here at 11:15 o'clock Thursday morning. also had an experience that will give them something to talk about for a long time. The train had to be stopped at Magazine Point and it was waterbound until Friday morning Leaving the cars was an impossibility and the passengers had to make them selves comfortable the best way they could. The dining car was a comfort. The women on the train were fed first and the men afterward. The Pullman passengers had fairly comfortable night but it was pretty hard on those in the day coaches.