The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-18
TRAINS OFF SCHEDULE
BAD WEATHER ANNoYS RAIL
 ROAD COMPANIES.
Sliding Earth in Cuts on Central and Louisville 6 Nashville Caused Delays to Passenger
 Trains.

The full effect of the recent incessant rains are being felt by the railroads en- tering Montgomery and yesterday was a day of late trains at the union railway station.
 About forty miles north of Montgomery on the South and North division of the Louisville and Nashville there is a dirt cut that has been the cause of more trou- ble and expense than a good many other things on that road. Hundreds and hun dreds of tons of slag and other rock bal last have found their way into this place only to be swallowed as completely as If they had never been put there.
 The soil of this place Is probably the most peculiar in Alabama. It Is what is called creeping earth" and after every rain the hardest kind of work by railroad men Is necessary to make the sires of the cut keep a respectful distance.
 Yesterday morning at o'clock freight train started through the cut and sev- eral of the cars of the train got mixed up with the migratory earth. became confused and mistook a part of the right of way for the rails.
 Northbound passenger train No. 2 that left here at S:25 o'clock yesterday morning proceeded as far as the cut and then stop ped. The wrecked freight cars were re- clining across the track blocking the track most effectually It was several hours before the wrecking crew succeed ed in pitching the cars down an embank- ment and clearing the track.
 It was l o'clock before train No. 2 was able to get through-a delay of about four hours
 Train No. 1, due in Montgomery at Il a. m, was running some hours late al- ready and was laid out by reason of the Freight wreck and waiting on No. 2. It reached Montgomery at 4;30 p. m, five hours late.
 At Mathews Station, on the Central of Georgia, a few miles from Montgomery, there is another of these rapid transit cuts and yesterday morning it proceeded to get busy.
 Train No. left here for Macon, Ga at S:10 o'clock yesterday morning but on reaching Mathews the crew decided to suspend operations. A freight train got 800 familiar with the very moving scenes tn the cut and like the Louisville and Nashville freight train. several of the wheels slid on the ground instead of the rails
 Several hours later No. got through khe cut all right, but telegraph wires all along were out of business temporarily, due to the storm of Monday night.
 Train No II, due in Montgomery at 1115 a. m, got out of Union Springs over two hours late yesterday morning and with no means of finding out where No was, the wires being down. had to feel its way by Tagging until 1t met the other train. It reached Montgomery at z:30 D. m, just five minutes before the afternoon train of the Central road was due to leave for Savannah As soon as the engine could be cooled, rested and oiled up it took out this latter train, about forty minutes late.
 Last night the Louisville and Nashville train from the North, due in Montgomery at T:25 D. m., was three hours late, storms up North and West, trouble on the road and a heavy train being the combination that compassed its downfall
 The Western train. due from Atlanta at p:a0 D. rn., was in two sections last night, the first of the twins came here three hours late, at 1920 a. m, and the second five hours late, at 2:20 o'clock this morn ing.