The bee., 1902-04-03
LOCOMOTIVE BLASTS


Kitchell Walker, ,eX-brakeman, left
for home Wednesday.
Dispatcher Devney spent Saturday
at home i'm Evansville.
Curtis Lane has u new cabOose,
one of the best on the division.
Copyist Scott and wife have Sc
cured board with Mrs. John lyman.
Operator Daniels and wife are
boarding with Dispatcher Brownie.
Dispatcher w. X. Griffith went to
Evansville Monday on a business
trip.
Brakeman Lacy laid off one day
this week to take the third degree in
the X. p.
James Sparrow laid off Tuesday
Dight to attend Quo Vadis, and he
says he don't regret it.
Andy Corbett seems to enjoy the
turn arOunds, as it is getting to be a
regular thing with him.
NJ. NJ. Brownie, brother of Dis
patcher Brownie, has been made
trainmaster at Nashville.
Joe Brown made a through run
from Howell to Nashville on the
special and went back on 2nd No. so.
w. p. Bruce, formerly trainmaster
on the I'd division, has been appoint
ed superintendent of terminals at
Nashville.
Chas. Daniles spent Saturday at
his home in Hopkinsville. We hear
that he is getting tired of going home
so regular and will move his wife TO
Darlington.
S. w. Mothershead has been con-
fined to his room with a severe cold
for the past few days but is now at
his desk again.
Account of washout on the n. &
d. division shere was a special train
run out of Howell to take bridge
men from various places.
Dispatcher T. j. Featherstone is
anxiously waiting for nice weather
and warm sunshinY days SO he can
go fishing, and there are others.
There was a special train run from
Nashville to st. Louis Monday in
order to carry the passengers de-
layed by the high water in the south.
Conductor Davis says he don't
want any more extra work on the
coal train, as he missed his run and
had to stay in Darlington four days
before catching it again.
All the false work of the new
bridges on the II. c. railroad over
Stone and Cumberland rivers near
Nashville have been washed out
during the recent high water.
Mr.. Carter, the father of Mrs. Ed
Brownie, left for Nashville Monday
on 81. He has been visiting here
for several davs and will now visit
Trainmaster Brownie of Nashville.
The L. & n. made an appropria-
tion for running track around
Bakers Hill this week to obviate
the necessity of doubling this hill
and will do away with the hill en-
gine and crews, and also enable the
engines TO haul larger trains between
Guthrie and Nashville.
On account of the high water the
southern divisions of the l.. q n.
have experienced considerable diff
Guilty with washOuts and bridges
down for the past week. The first
through tram that has been run
through from the south IN several
days reached Nashville Monday
night at 10 o'clock.
Two freight trains collided at So
nora on the first division of the l.. &
n. on last Friday night. Both trains
were wrecked and sixteen box cars
piled up and completely destroyed.
A brakeman named Groom was
slightly injured. All traffic was
stopped on the road for five or six
hours. The air brakes on the north
bound train failing to work was the
cause of the collision.
Livingston, KY, March SLOGAN
NJ. Westerfield, now chief train dis
patcher at this place for the Knox
Vile division of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad, will be transferr-
ed to the Cumberland valley division
or the same company on April l. He
becomes master of trains, succeed
ing A. g. Frazier, resigned. Fred
Fishback, of the Louisville dispatch
er's office, will come as chief train
dispatcher here.
Don't show less courtesy to your
dependents than you would to your