The bee., 1902-01-02
LOCOMOTIVE BLASTS!

LUWUNIUIIVE ULHOIVi\
Owing to their heavy coal and 9th
err traffic the Norfolk and WestArn
Railroa, I'd Company has ordered poo
$4,000 pound capacity boXcars, 900
$4,000 pound capacity coal gondolhs
and $50 stockcars.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and Sk.
Paul rohd has received 10 passenger
locomotives which are said to be THE
largest On any western road. They
are to be fused between Chicago and
northwestern points. They are con-
sidered capable of drawing Is heav-
lily loaded Pullman cars over 90 miles
an hour.
Orders have been received by
American builders for locomotives
to be sent to Russia, Japan, Austria
liza and South Africa within the last
months, tn us invading almost every
quarter of Ahe globe. 1t is especially
noteworthy in view of the persistent
and aggressive onslaught against
the American locomt tive by English
influences.
On the Scranton division of the
Ontario d Eastern railroad coal
train ran away down q mountain on
q .fsastx .traEIs, vas derailed apd
dashed 100 eetdQwna hill. killing
four men. The conductor escaped
but was badly injured.
The L. q N. has occupied It's new
passenger depot at New Orleans.
A report is current that the Louis.
vile & Nashville Railroad Company
has under consideration an extern
sion from Sheffield south to the line
being built in the vicinity of Selma
Ala.
Something practical and valuable
in the way of advertising has been
issued by the passenger department
of the Louisville & Nashville Rail-
road Company, in the form of q
memorandum book, which contains
calendar and space for memoranda
for every day in the year, statistics
relative to coins, population OF
cities, the last census and other
valuable data. Incidentally Sec
tional map of the world and of the
United States, showing the wide
territory served by the Louisville &
Nashville system, is included. In
this map the Philippines are dis
played prominently.
The annual inspection train went
over the Henderson division Mon
Cay. The section foremen of the St
Louis division inspected the Hen.
derson division and the Henderson
division men inspected the st. Louis
division. The train was in charge
of Conductor Rosser and Engineer
Covert, with engine ll6. The speed
of this train was regulated down to
20 miles per hour in order to give the
men a chance to discover all the
high joints and low centers.
The e. and G.. had p small wreck
Sunday, doing very little damage
however. The f. & G. is trying to
keep up with the Henderson diyi-
sion.
r. Morgan, Of the Water Valley
division Of the I. G. was in the city
one day last week visiting friends.
E. L. Brooks, formerly of Earling-
ton and one of the railroad boys,
but now of Dixie, KY, in writing to
one of his friends, says he feels
lonely sometimes when he hears the
I. c. pulling the grade at Corrydon
and he wonders if someone has not
made q mistake in figuring tonnage.
Operator G. S. Morris, of Sebree, is
visiting friends and relatives in Mi
Ian, Tenn.
d. Fl. Sharpe, the HANDSOME and
,nial agent Of Sebree, was in Che
ty of Evansville during the holt
making some suspicious pur-
4 is rumored that this gen.
soon take unto himself a
eridan spent Christ
Sker's Hill. We I'M
a delightful TIME.
'eveny went Though