Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-01-09
A SUNDAY MEETING
BURLINGTON RAILROAD MEN TO
HOLD RELIGIOUS SERVICES
AT cREsToN.
Meeting Will be in Baptis list Church
Sunday Afternoon, January 1o-sim-
liar to ottumwa Meeting Last Feb
ruary-other Railroad News.

VII dlISlAOO at " SIOSh,
January 10, in the Baptist church at
Creston. big religious meeting for
railroad men will be held. The meet
ing will be in charge of railroad
men and is to be conducted by Mr.
Babb, an old Rock Island man, who is
at present in the employ of the West
ern Weighing association at Burling-
ton.
The meeting will be similar to the
one which was held in Ottumwa last
February in the auditorium of the Y.
M. G. A. building. The leader was r.
w. Robinson, the Burlington conduc-
tor, and a number of railroad men
from all over the Burlington lines was
present. These meetings are held by
the Burlington men about every six
months. 1t was originally intended to
hold the coming meeting in Ottumwa.
but at the request of the Creston Of
f1cials the meeting was given to their
city.
Rock Island Meeting.
Railroad men are awaiting with in
terest the developments the adjourned
! annual meeting of the, directors of the
| Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific at Dav-
export today will bring FORTH 1t is
generally expected that r. R. Gable
will practically be in control of
| the meeting and will be reelected
chairman of the board of directors of
| the road
The annual meeting was held in
Davenport October s, but was adj
! ability to decide number of impor-
| tant matters. AT the time it was an
| nounced that r. R. Gable was making
a desperate effort to regain control of
! the road and subsequent developments
substantiate the belief that he was
| successful.
Mr.. Leeds has resigned the presi-
| dency of the Rock Island. One of
! the things which is said to have led to
Mr.. Leeds downfall was his endeavo1
| to float s250,00O,OO0 bonds against the
road. Mr.. Gable was opposed to it and
| succeeded in interesting other stock
holders to the extent that action on it
was postponed last October. This will
be one of the principal things that will
ably be voted down. 1t is limited the
| Rock Island has not been paying the
dividends the past two years that the
i stockholders desire, and they are OPP
posed to anything that will increase
the expenses.
Probable Changes.
| Among the other things that will be
considered will be the personnel of the
officials of the line. While the directors
| will not make any appointments it is
said they will fix up a slate for the re-
organization. Third Vice President
| Winchell will probably succeed First
Vice President G. H. Warren, whose
resignation has been requested. w. p.
| Hobbs, now assistant general manager,
| is said to stand a good show of secur-
ing the third vice presidency. He is an
old official of the Rock Island, and has
always been representative of the Ca
BILE interests. 1t is also said that H. S.
| Gable will be slated for general man.
ager of the southwestern division at
| the time.
1t is possible that arrangements may
be made at the meeting to take over
the Des Moines and Fort Dodge road
which the Rock Island is now operat-
ing, and which was the center of in
terest last summer on account of the
coup planned on the Rock Island
by Edwin S. Hooley, the New
York stock broker who went broke
on the deal.
Mail Strikes Switch Engine.
1 The Burlington's fast mail No. IL
crashed into switch engine of the
; same road at the Sixth street cross
ing in Council Bluffs Saturday morn
ing shortly after s o'clock. The switch
engine was backing across the mair
, track when the collision came, strik-
, der, overturning it and throwing it or
the north side of the main track, while
T the boiler with the cab attached was
!, left on the south side and derailed
Engineer Charles A. Linebarger ant
Fireman Harry Madison jumped from
the switch engine and escaped will
5 slight injuries. Linebarger, however
I sustained severe cut on the RICH
. side of his face.
: The mail train was twenty-five min
utes late and was coming around tn
curve at the city depot at a high rat
: of speed. The switch engine was pull
7 ing some cars from a switch and back
n ed out from behind a building like
f COW from her stall" as the railwa
4 men put if. The main line curve
SO sharp that the engineer of tn
> fast mail could not see the obstruc
> ton until he was within half bloc
T OF it. He instantly applied the emer
e gency brakes, but could not stop tn
8 mail train from knocking the switc
r engine over and carrying it's tende
q dozen feet before a complete sto
was reached. The only damage don
5 to the mail train locomotive was tn
o wrenching of it's pilot. The trai
backed out of the wreck and the en-
If CINE was able to take it down to til
n Union Pacific transfer
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= List Of Letters Remaining UncIaime
o at Ottumwa, Iowa, For the Week
y. Ending December 26, 1908.