The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-12-16

and was only two hours late.
On the south end the most serious
trouble was found in the osving in Of
the rs foot cut at Ripley. This fell
in and covered the track for many
feet. A large force Of workmen are
working on IL now to clear away the
dirt and put the track In order again.
Superintendent A. Philbriok, of the
Louisville division Of the l. O.. arrived
last night from Louisville to look AZ
ter his division. He has suffered COM
psratively little on his division.
Trainmaster Ia. Banks ia also In the
city today looking after the trains. His
wife accompanied him here.
The street cars here have been
greatly handicapped by the heavy
rainfall and this morning the
mud and debris on the tracks caused
several derailments. Two cars on the
Rowlandtown line were derailed and
for n time the service 10 the depot
was badly damaged. The car repair
ers from the car shed were sent out TO
replace the cars on the tracks. The
mud in many places has been washed
over the tracks until they are com
pletley covered.
A telephone message from Woodville
this morning reported the damage in
that vicinity not very heavy The
roads seem TO have been damaged little
by the rains except from the washing
away OF several crossings and small
bridges. The creeks were so high
yesterday that the mail carriers were
unable to bring any mail, and up un-
til this morning no mail had been re-
ceived at woodville
At Hardwood the water was report
ed higher than records have heretofore
shown. Humphreys creek went wild
and many logs and pieces Of timber
that had been cut were washed away.
The water backed over fields and
completely submerged them.
Vaudeville reports much damage.
One iron bridge near that was report
ed badly damaged but still sound
enough 90 be used. The roads are re-
ported IN pretty good condition but
many crossings and small bridges have
been washed away.
Later reports from Boaz station
show that there are three miles of
track completely submerged and the
railroad men can not even transfer
passengers from ore train to another
The no. l0l and 1903 and 1872 were
still at last reports tied up at Mayfield
and Boaz in deadlock, being unable
TO got past. The Louisville division
officials are here and have arranged to
run train out of Paducah as No.
l02 which will be unable to get past
the Ripley cave in.
The little damage done the |. @. tele.
graph wires has been repaired .aud the
road will ! lose little from this source.
There were a few business wires down
yesterday but the linemen repaired
the breaks Immediately and the COM
pany operators were little handicapped
by the breaks.
There have been few mails today,
aud the postofiioe forces arc enjoying
something Of a vacation. There have
been few in. in fact, since Saturday.
The county roads are ssnoc that there
are few mails from the county, and
the railroad trains are running SO IT.
regularly that only few mails have
been brought in this way.
Even the steamboat men, who
were complaining Of low water only
short time ago, are beginning to
complain because the rivers are get
ting so high that many of the land
ings are under water and they can.
not land rvi
Manager A. L. Joynes,of the Cum
berland Telephone company, reports
That this damage to his lines caused by
the heavy rains, was slight and that
all defects have been remedied. There
were few long distance wires broken
and grounded but the linemen worked