The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-11
Among the Railroads.

Here are tho particulars of the killing
of Mr. James Trull at Monroe by a NOV
ing engine at Monroe: He was standing
ut the freight depot crossing smoking
and talking with Mr.. Pat Doolcy, switch
enginec~. whose engine was between the
main Inc and the sidetrack. Mr. DoolcF
tcId Mr. Trun to move, as he must so ON
with his engine, Trull turned, saw anoth-
or engine going to the round house FROM
the water tank, and in attempting to
board the moving engine his feet slip
ped underneath and he was horribly
manglcd.
J. p. Morgan denies that he has pur-
chased the FIagler system Of hotels and
the East Coast Railway.
Engineer Dalton yesterday returned 70
Eads Can to resume work on the survey
of the Ashcvillc, Hickory Nut Gap ana
Rutbcrfordton railroad. The survey,
which shows as far as completed per
cent grade. has been finished to a point
near Fairvicw, and tho work on the re-
mainder of the survey to this city viii
proceed as rapidly as the weather VIII
permit MIR. Dalton has recently MADE
profile showing twelve of the thirty-tWo
miles that have been surveyed. over
part of the territory that has been sur
veyed there was difficulty experienced iii
getting desired grade of two per cent.
1t will be much easier to complete the
survey from Eads gap to Asheville than
it was to establish q grade between the
gap and Ruthcrfordton. There will be
comparatively few obstacles to overcome
as the territory to be covered is not
nearly so rough as the part already sur
veyed-Asheyille Gazette.
Work has begun at Southport on the
Southport, Wilmington and Durham rail
road. The Wilmington Messenger quotes
a prominent railroad man as saying that
it was done probably to save the charter.
A special from Elizabeth City says:
"The biggest mortgage ever recorded in
the clerks office was handled by Mr..
Joseph Spence Saturday. The mortgage
was for 81 000. 600 and was against the
Suffolk and Carolina Railroad Company.
This mortgage was given in order TO
procure ready money with which TO
construct the line between Suffolk and
this place. or course the amount viii
also pay for the depots, freight houses,
wharves, etc"
The Waynesville ana Newport Railway
will be built through to Waynesvlle, ac-
cording to prominent citizen Of Waynes-
Vile, who stated last evening to Citi-
zen reporter that a surveying corps was
now at work cleaning up the land along
the right of way.
"This work" he said, "will be pushed
rapidly forward and there is no doubt
but that the road is coming.
The proposed road would open up ore
Of the finest undeveloped timber regions
means much to this entire section.-Ashe-
Vile Citizen
]. r. Oates, ]. K. Cowan and J. NJ
Lorick arrived Saturday afternoon from
East Tennessee, where they and other
Asheville men are building a branch OF
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
from the main line at Dorset station to
the coal fields, twelve miles away. Mr..
Oates received the contract to build the
road and sublet sections to Bird and
Stewart, j. f.. Oates, j. X Cowan, Nc
Smllh, Loflck, COSBY & Co., -. = ana
N. A. Reynolds, r. H. Patton & Co, and
E. w. Patton. Mr. e. w. Patton sold
his contract and outfit to B. e. Blanton,
Of Shelby.
The new road circles around the South
ern and most of it is heavy work. Mr..
Oates says, with some deep cuts and fills.
1t will not be completed for five or six
months Mr.. Oates is finishing the road
he Is building for the Toxaway Company
from ToXaway to Toxaway Falls, twelve
miles in length, and expects that grading
will be completed the first of April
Tracklaying does not require much time
so that the railroad will be at the Falls
by the first of May probably. Messrs.
Oates, Cowan and Lorick returned to
Tennessee sterday.-Asheville Citizen.