The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-02

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Friday Mr.. Respass has charge of the
civil engineering on the railroad which
Mr.. Hlnshaw Is endeavoring to have built
from Roaring River to Stone Mountain
IN this county Chronicle.
Town Creek correspondence, Southport
Standard: The work OH the Gibson Rail
road is progressing favorably The road
will be eleven miles in length, extending
from a point on Town Creek short dis
lance above the upper bridge at Lock
woods Folly Swamp. Mr.. Gibson expects
to have this road completed by January
LIST, 1904
Mrs Eta Lee Allen has sued the Rich
mond Passenger and Power Company for
81 900 damages for personal injuries and
for delaying her marriage. The declaration
recites that the plaintiff was engaged to be
married January Z. 1908, to her present
husband, but on December 5 a car OF the
defendant company struck the buggy i'll
which she was riding and she was thrown
out and wounded and bruised, and suffered
great physical pain and mental anguish
and was prevented till April p from keep
The report of the Interstate Commerce
Commission on railroad accidents in the
United States for the three months end
ing March 81. 1903 shows that in that time
800 were killed and 1884 injured in train
accidents. Other accidents sustained by en-
ployes while at work and by passengers
in getting on and off cars make the aggre-
gate of casualties S27 killed and 11,4S1
injured. News.
T. A. Love. who is here from Bakers
vile, says that the South and Western
Railway has been completed almost TO
the Mcdowell county line. AT Spruce
Pine. the present terminus of the road,
the citizens are laying OFF streets and
are preparing to make extensive inn
provements 1t is said that this road
bed is one of the very best in the South.
The grading is being done just right and
ballast is being put down as fast as the
rails are placed in position.-Ashotille
News.
The proposed experiment did not take
place at Gulf last week, but Is postponed
until some time next month, because all
the necessary arrangements had not been
completed This is the experiment to be
tried on the Durham and Charlotte Rail
road. near Gulf. by which two trains run
ming in opposite directions will not sol
lide.-Chatham Record.
Counsel Hamilton, of the B. and o.
Railroad, unsolicited sent Congressman
g ID III, on hn and
%. 1t was returned and Mr.. Baker wrote:
81 desire to say that ! am unable to
understand on what grounds pass Is
rendered, if it be not with the expecta-
ton that its use will influence me so to
act in my official capacity as TO conserve
what your company regards as its rights
regardless of the rights OF the people, OF
may be to aid in securing for the com
pany further privileges.
There is another possible construction
to- be put upon this tender OF a pass,
and that is that if the pass be not given,
then, in my official acts in matters affect
ing the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company. the company assumes that
will be guided not by determination to
deal justly. both with the American PEG
pie and your company, but so TO act as
to harrass and annoy if not cause 1t pc
cuniary loss.
Mr.. Baker asks how great tax Is laid
upon the general travelling public to en-
able the railroad company to carry Con
gressmen free. He concludes:
I'm view of this official action OF your
company in rendering through you these
passes without solicitation, and apparently
on wholesale scale, those who have
heretofore regarded your company as
possibly a victim must now revise theiF
opinion and regard it as an Instlgator OF
official misconduct