The Farmington times. [volume] (Farmington, Mo.) 1874-1902, 1902-06-19
AT rAcuornERs THROAT.
The N. X. 6B. r. Trying 10 STOP wcrk
90 The s. m. Railroad.


There has been considerable excite.
noni ont In the Flat River district this
week over tho attempt Of the MissIs-
sippi River and Bonne Terrc railroad
authorities to prevent the Southern
Missouri people from crossing their
tracks. The Southern Missouri ran
.heir grade over the Derby swItch,
the b.. X. d u. T. Ia the meantime
trying to get an injunction to stop the
work. Falling in this, they ran 40
empty car Of into the southera His
souFi's cut, which was blown up by
the ls,ler's workmen with dynamite.
The II. X. and y. r. then ran two
freight ears into the cut, which the
Southern Missouri people saturated
with coal OF! aud set 90 lire.
The attempt Of She ". Il. s. q. T.
people TO prevent the Southern Ais.
souri, from crossing their tracks looks
like a piece OF spite work intended
more 10 annoy aud .retard the progress
Of the latter than any expectation Of
defeating the construction Of the road.
The assumption that they own the
earth and that no other road has
right to come into the county will not
stand In law. As 10 the right Of the
Southern Missouri people TO destroy
the cars Of Ihs Al, u. & d. f. pur-
possly dumped on thu formers right
OF way TO interfere with their work,
that is 3 matter that will probably be
settled by law suits hereafter; bat Il
shows that the Southern Missouri
do not in,ead 10 allow anything to
interfere with the huilding OF their
road.
The Daily Advertiser man vent cut
to Gbe scene Of the trouble Tuesday,
aud we sppend below his observations
and comments on the situation;
The railroad troubles of yes
terday have temporarily subsid.
ed and all that remains Of the
two freight cars dumped by the
NJ. X. & b. T. Ry. into the
Southern Missouri territory is a
gigantic pile OF old iron.
There arc yet eight cars de.
rallied across the main line of the
NJ. Il & Il. T., and two engines
are standing ready, with steam
up, To push four more ore cars
loaded with railroad ties into the
crossing IL those already there
are burned or blown out. In the
meantime Engineer Moran of
the Southern Missouri and his
force are grading and whistling
and when an NJ. Il. & b. T. car
gets in their road they either
hitch block and tackle TO 1t and
roll it into the creek or blow il
out with dynamite. Reports
circulated yesterday that the
Southern Missouri had torn up
a portion of the M. II. & B. T.
main line and stopped all traffic
is false. True, traffic Is stopped
but the Southern Missouri did
not hinder il. Passengers and
mails are transferred around the
wreck.
Manager Burns came down
On special last night, but did
nothing save utter a few almost
extinct cuss words. There was
about a thousand Southern Mis-.
souri, sympathizers on the
ground and his slightest move
would have likely caused serious
trouble. IL Is reported that
Burns endeavored 10 import sew.
eral cars Of negroes TO do his
fighting, but this failed when
the "coOns" found they had to
go to Flat River.
To date the Southern Nilsson.
ri Ry. Co. have torn up four lines
of sidetracks and thrown them
into the creek, rolled one ore car
into the creek, blown one car up
with dynamite and burned one
car. By tonight they expect TO
complete their grade 10 the
Bonnie Terre tracks and then
all the excitement viii cease
until they attempt TO lag the
crossing.
II is but childs play for the
Bonnie Terre company 70 try
such tactics as il is only q ques
ton of time until they win be
forced to give up or have their
peavine blown OF the right-of-
way.