The age-herald., 1902-03-29

% south on account of waShoutS near % . Meridian and York Train for % % north made up here. Trains on % 4 Southern west are late. % % Heavy rock slide reported on L. -< < and N. near Cullman at midnight. < < Traffic may be delayed several & -> hours. % ~ Horse hitched to Southern Ex- & -~ press wagon drowned near Ensley. % -~ Driver saves himself by clinging to % 4 tree. ~ A Streets badly damaged and 1t will < - cost at least $1 000 to repair them ~ %~~.A Ac-,-s-~%<-%4~-<~s<< The railroads yesterday began feeling the damage of the flood. The Alabama Great Southern was unable to move any of it's through trains south on account of washouts in the vicinity of Livings- ton and York.
 At midnight heavy rock slide was re- ported on the Louisville and Nashville near Cullman and it was said traffic would be delayed several hours. A heavy wind and rain storm passed over the northern part of the state yesterday af- ternoon.
 The street railway company had re- covered from Thursday nights deluge yesterday morning and cars were being operated on all lines. The streets suffer- ed considerable damage and Commission CT McCartin, with gangs of laborers were busy yesterday making passable the worst places.
 The amount of rain that has fallen in Birmingham and vicinity during the past three days may have been equalled at some time in the history of the city, but not since the weather bureau has been established here For time yes- terday morning the skies were partly clear and the rain ceased. This was only a bluff, however, on the part of the weather man. and in an hour rain began falling again. Between and 9 o'clock there was a heavy downpour.
 Yesterday at noon the weather turned considerably warmer. The mercury went up to 72 degrees from the sixties. h. stead of dropping last night, as is usual, 1t remained at 72. at o'clock. Later In the night 1t became cooler. The prediction is for fair and cooler weather today
 Telephone Lines Down.
 After o'clock last night the long dis tance lines of the Bell Telephone Compa- ny were all out of order and 1t was lns- possible to talk over any of them. There are six in all, three north and three south, but none were working.
 Just before o'clock Birmingham was able to talk with Montgomery over one wire, but that failed afterwards. It was also possible for a time to talk with | Decatur on ope of the northern lines. It has also failed
 East of Birmingham the Southern rail- road had no trouble last night It report ed its trains on time. Yesterday one Southern train went west and one arrived from the west over the tracks of the Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham. The Litter train was over two hours and thirty minutes late.
 The Queen and Crescent train which was due to arrive last night at 10:05 was nearly four hours late.
 Street Car Trouble Over.
 The officers of the Birmingham Rail- way, Light and Power Company report ed all their lines in good condition last night The water had subsided in all places where it had inteferred with cars. The water which was very high around the round house at East Birmingham has gone down. The cars on the Gate City line are able to pass the Southern railroad tracks, which was impossible Thursday night.
 No trains have arrived from the south over the Alabama Great Southern tracks | since yesterday morning. The Pan-Am- erican special, which should have arriv- | ed last night at GAS o'clock from New Orleans was not run A train was, how ever, made up here and sent north. A | local train has been run as far south as Tuscaloosa, but washouts below Livings- ton and York prevent their going further. The wires in that direction are all down. Three Hundred Feet Washed Away. Below Livingston 300 feet of the track has been washed away. Through trains Nos. l. ?. and 4 will not be run today. The passengers from these will be trans- ferred to the Louisville and Nashville go- ing south. No live stock or perisha ble freight will be received for points west f Livingston.
 Local trains will be run as far as Iiy- ingston. It is hoped the through trains can be run by tonight There is A large force of hands at work repairing the dam- age. The Central of Georgia has suffered some. but trains are still running
 Trains from the north are all on time. The lines to Chattanooga are in good con- dition, and the wires are working The water over the tracks of the Birm- ingham Southern, which prevented the Mineral from getting to Blocton Thurs day afternoon, has subsided and the trains are running on schedule time.
 Express Horse Drowned.
 Ensley and Pratt City also suffered from the food At Ensley considerable portions of the sidewalks recently built by the city on Nineteenth street were washed away. A horse belonging to the Southern Express Company was drowned in Village creek yesterday morning. as the driver was returning from the rail- road. The stream was swollen to such an extent that it overfiowed all the lands adjacent and the bridge over it could not have been reached but for the high embankments that are provided as approaches, and which are from four to five feet above the level of the ground. The water was nearly to the top of these embankments As the driver start