Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-02-14
S TRAINS DELAYED|STATE CONVENTION
EXTREME COLD AND HEAVY
SNOW cRlPPLEs TRAFFIC ON
THE RAILROADS.
Passenger Trains Several Hours Late
and Are Being Run AS Double
Headers-Train of Farm Machinery
Railroad Notes.

Headers-Train of Farm Machinery
4 Railroad Notes.
Not for many years has traffic on
the various railroads entering Ottumwa
been SO seriously CRIPPLED from extreme
cold and heavy SHOWS as during the
past few days. Since Saturday night
/ all passenger trains on the Burling.
4 ton, Rock Island, Wabash and Milwau.
kee have been from thirty minutes to
/ several hours late.
! On all the roads every available man
and snow pillow has been pressed into
use to keep the tracks open as much
as possible. On the main lines all pas.
senger trains are being run as double
4 headers and on the northern branch
i lines traffic Is practically at a stand
4 still. Railroad men say that the pres
ent cold spell has caused more diff.
Guilty in running trains than has been
experienced for many years from the
same cause.
From Moulton to ottumwa.
The Wabash passenger train due in
this city at O'clock Sunday night
arrived this morning at 1886 o'clock
having been on the rorc over six hours
between Moulton and Ottumwa. The
4 train consisted of two engines and
three coaches and left Moulton several
hours late on account of connections
The heavy snow drifts on the steep
grades and in the deep cuts caused the
delay between that place and OF
tumwa.
Milwaukee passenger No. 8, due In
/ Ottumwa at 1917 this morning. was
four hours late, having been delayed
from the north. The passenger from
Cedar Rapids and the Southwest Lin
tied we're each over an hour late this
morning. The trains from the south
are running almost on schedule time.
On the Burlington,
4 Passenger No. 6 on the Burlington
4 due here at lao yesterday afternoon
was over seven hours late, and No
~, due at 11:45 p. M, arrived at s
o'clock this morning. No. IL, due al
/ 2:l0 a. M, had not arrived at noon to
day. Burlington No. 8 this morning
was three hours late from the east.
i The Rock Island north bound pas
,senger left Ottumwa one hour late this
morning and the train from the north
due here at 9:45 a. M, was expected to
arrive about 3 o'clock this afternoon
4 A large force of men are working ali
along the line and it is expected thai
4 trains will be running as usual by to
night.
Into the Museums.
AT a recent meeting of the New
!. York Transportation club. Senator De
pew, acting as postmaster. said it i
wrong to accuse railway men Of be
! ing opposed to the Panama canal. tn
Erie $101 100000 bargeway, or canal
in general He said:
1t has been charged that this clu1
was prejudiced on the subject of trans
portation. We are as liberal as WI
can be. 1t makes no difference
whether transportation is in the all
on the surface or underground. We ar,
\ for anything that kills distance. w
have encouraged the electric locomc
tive. though we love the railroad en-
gineer. Much as we love him, how
ever, l predict that ten years from tc
night the steam locomotive will be II
the museums, while we will be carrie,
along. clipping the seconds off seventy
five miles an hour. by electric loco
I motives
Growth Of Block System.
I The mileage of railroads operated b,
the block signal system shows a dc
! cided increase during the past year
1 In round number, 5000 miles Of tract
are operated by automatic signals an,
nearly $4,000 miles by automatic sic
nails. During 1904 over 725 miles Q
automatic and 1853 miles Of manua
signals were installed.
1 A Remarkable Career.
i w. L. Park who was recently az
pointed general superintendent Of th
Union Pacific with headquarters a
1 Omaha, has remarkable record o
the brakeman to general superintend
ent order that comes in for a certain
amount of discussion among railwa,
men.
/ Mr.. Parks appointment was effec
tive February l. succeeding J. M. Cru
Der. Born at Ovid, Mich, October 8
1853. Mr.. Park entered the railwa.
service in 1875 as a brakeman on tn
Union Pacific. He has been connecte,
with the same system ever since. HI
was freight conductor from 1882 to Al
gust 10. 1890, and afterwards serve
for time as passenger conductor
From passenger conductor he was an
pointed division superintendent a
North Platte, Neb. He held that offic
for ten years and on June 1, 1900 wa
made superintendent of the Wyomin,
division at Cheyenne, holding that DC
;, sition until the announcement Of BIZ
most recent appointment. Mr.. Park i
succeeded by w. A. Whitney, formerI,
his assistant at that place.
Railroad Notes.
i A special train of forty cars of farm
implements en- route from Bellevue
Ohio, to Kansas City, passed through
Ottumwa on the Rock Island Saturda,
afternoon. The train was run in tws
sections and each was double head
err. The cars were decorated and tn,