Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-12-31
TRAINS IN AND OUT OF OF.
TUMWA RUNNING NEAR
SCHEDULE TIME.
Storm Of Monday and Tuesday Has
Abated and Damage Throughout the
State Is. Being Repaired - Strange
Trains Pass Through City.

tain as last Saturday and Sunday, Is
greatly improved today and now the
prospective traveller has some little
idead of the time he can get train
in or out Of the city. Throughout the
state the storm has abated and the
damage 1t wrought is being rapidly re-
paired.
The Burlington is running its passen.
ger trains practically on schedule
time. while the freight business is rap
The Rock Island passengers and
freights are today running as per
schedule, although last nights trains
were far from reliable. The Milwau-
kee is the road which is suffering the
most Passenger No. 8, from Chicago
to Kansas City. due here at 1913 a.
m. arrived two hours late, but No. 1903,
from Marion, Cedar Rapids and inter-
mediate points due here at 9:55 a. m.
has not yet arrived The Wabash is
running on schedule time.
Officials of the Ottumwa Traction
and Light Co., state that their lines
will be opened at the close Of today.
At present all lines but Court Hill and
Jefferson street are running at least
portion of the way.
Main Line Trains Come Here.
A fast Chicago freight train west
bound on the Rock Island met with an
| accident near Perlee yesterday morn
ing about 10 o'clock, when rail broke,
causing the engine and six cars to go
into the ditch. Four passengers, each
about four hours late switched on
the Burlington at Fairfield and came
to this city, where the eastbound
trains used the Milwaukee tracks to
Washington and the westbound to
| Seymour.
Burlington No. % Here.
Burlington passenger train NO. ~,
of the Burlington and Des Mo1nes
branch via Tracey, passed through
this city yesterday afternoon from
Des Moines to Burlington. Passenger
No. II became snowbound yesterday
near Fremont and blocked the traffic
on that line.
Limited Went Through Switch.
Number s, the Milwaukee Southwest
Limited, went through an open switch
at the east end of the station at Bray
mer, Mo-. at. 1915 yesterday morning
while going forty miles an hour and
ploughed through six big freight cars
loaded with merchandise, switched on
the side track.
By a miracle there were no fatalities
or serious injuries.
Tho switch was left open by mem
Der Of section gang, which was at
work clearing out the snow in the
switch lock early in the morning The
men were In charge of Foreman B. J
| O'Conaor.
Burlington Extension.
Surveyors of the Burlington line are
running survey from Kewanee, Ill
to Prophetstown, distance OF thirty
| five miles. 1t is asserted That this
movement has for Its object shorter
line between Rock Island, Moline and
Davenport and Chicago. The same
company Is preparing for extended
improvements on the old Jacksonville
and ST. Louis, running from Concord
to Centralia, In Illinois. The Burling
! ton some time ago acquired this line
into Egypt"
/ New Burlington Divisions.
sAA>
4 creation Of a new division on its sys
TEN to be known as the Des Moines
division, with headquarters In Des
Moines. The division as planned is tt
A include the road from Abba to Des
Moines, the road from Oskaloosa viz
4 Tracey into Des Moines and the roat
from Des Moines through Osceola tt
4 GAINESVILLE and via Leon and Albany tt
T1,ic ri IF tho cvSfpr1 is
J now operated as portions of two divi
j sions. with headquarters in Ottumws
and Creston. The change will resul
trains and in the location in Der
Moines of the division offices with {
Superintendent, master mechanic, {
roadmaster, trainmaster, dispatchers
)etc. The most important changes II
train service are planned for the Yves
line. The trains between Des Nome:
and Abba and via Tracey and Osta
loosa to Burlington will probably con
tinue to run very much as they nov
do. On the west line, however, 1t Is
the intention to nut on a. train running
via Osceola and Leon to st. Joseph ant
Kansas City and train running vi;
/ Osceola to Creston at least, and prob
Bluffs. The service on this line is
purely local one now, extending t,
Leon and GAINESVILLE and necessitatint
changes to get to st. Joseph or point
west Of Osceola. With the chang,
contemplated it is likely that the lin,
between Des Moines and ST. JOSEPH
would be operated as a continuous
freight division. Des Moines officials
of the road say that orders creatins
the division have not been issued al
yet. but that inquiries as to it's practi
cability have Eeen made and are still
going forward with every indication
the changes will b2 made at an earl,
date.
viii Have New Depot.
When the plans of the Pennsylvania
} railroad anent the Chicago union depo
! are completed and executed Ottumws
people who ride into Chicago on tn,
Burlington road will alight in a new
thirty million dollar depot. the fines
in the west and, with the possible e4
, ception of the proposed Grand Contra
station in New York, the finest in thu
} world. The present union depot viii
be RACED to the ground and Phoenix
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