The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-10-02
RAINS ADD TO
L. & N. TANGLE
Traffic Resumption Now
in Sight.
GREAT WORK In SWAMP
Trains May Not Reach Mobile Be-
fore Wednesday.
Nine Miles Of Road Nearesx Gulf City
are Giving Immense Force Of
Workmen Most
Trouble.

Vice-President G. E. Evans of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pany. who has personal charge of the
reconstruction work north of Mobile.
telegraphed late last night that n,
hoped to be able to send a train into
Mobile today. Train No 8. which left
Montgomery at 9:35 o'clock last night,
will be held at Bay Minette until day
light. when it will be sent to Mobile,
If possible.
Officials Of the Louisville and Nash
VILE Railroad Company hoped yester-
day morning that the end OF their
troubles was in sight but the down.
pour of rain which was general yester-
day. put a decided damper on their
ardor. AS a result it may be a day or
two longer before they can remove
Instructions on the Mobile division. A
prediction was made by a local rail-
| road man that the company will De
| lucky to run trains into Mobile by
Wednesday night
Down in the great swamps below
the Tensas River Is small army of
| men. They are under the command
of Chief Engineer Courtney and Con-
sulting Engineer Montfort of Louis
willie with Superintendent J. I. Nc
| Kinney, Master of Trains T. H. Mizeli
and Roadmaster Shields of the Mobile
and Montgomery division. on hand.
| Vice-President G. E. Evans of the Lou
isville and Nashville system is in the
swamps with the men. and he is work.
| ing as hard as any of them.
Something like 1000 bridge men and
laborers are working night and day to
clear away the immense mass Of wreck
age blown on the tracks by the recent
storm. In the swamps are eight work
trains with a number of pile drivers
Even with this big body of men and
material no appreciable effect has been
| evidenced as yet.
Fourteen Big Bridges.
Beginning with the big Tensas araw
bridge, there are fourteen bridges be
| tween Hurricans and Mobile. Includ-
ing the Tensas draw, there are seven
big draw bridges and seven other
bridges and trestles. Several of the
bridges are intact, but most of the way
the track is covered to depth of sew
| eral feet with a solid mass of trees,
| logs and underbrush. This ma So OF
wreckage is so tightly woven together
and packed in some places even
strong steam derrick can scarcely
bulge il.
The track up to noon yesterday had
been practically cleared as far down as
south side of the Spanish River and
nine miles north Of Mobile. Those nine
miles are just now giving the Louis
vile and Nashville officials more
trouble than all the rest of the sys-
tenn.
The office of Chief Train Dispatcher
Frank Young on the third floor Of the
union railway station building is grad
ually getting the tangles Strengthened
out. All along the line are scattered
100 linemen, and as result of the
hard work that has been going ON for
the past two days. the local Office has
a wire through to Pensacola and into
the swamps as far as Ray Minetta.
Yesterday afternoon the Western
Union Telegraph Company succeeded
IN getting wires through to Mobile but
up to last night the railroad company
had not succeeded in getting wires
through to the Gulf City.
Routing the Passengers.
Into and out of Montgomery the
transportation department handled
| trains yesterday just as they have been
for the past two days Train No ]
due from Cincinnati and Chicago at
| 1l:2O a. M, is annulled on It's arrival
in Montgomery. The through passnng-
ers on that train are held here until
night, when they are sent forward on
train No. 3. which arrives here at 7:co
| p m. A train is made up at the union
| station and is sent out over the Selma
division of the Western Railroad via
Selma to Mobile. At 9:35 p. m. a train
is made up and sent out to Pensacola.
| This latter train carries the regular
Pensacola Pullman car. that being the
only Pullman carried south by Louis
Vile and Nashville trains.
| The passengers for New Orleans
brought in on the Western Railway
|
Louisville and Nashville train No.
| at 6:32 p. m. At birmingham the
route is diverted TO the Queen an.
| Crescent route of the Southern Railway
into New Orleans.
| Local passenger trains south are rum
ming all right as far as Bay Minettc.
where they are annulled and returned
| to Montgomery.
Train No. .. leaving Montgomery at
7:30 a. m, has been making the Pensd
cola connection at Flomaton in the
morning, going on to Bay Minette, and
| returning, getting the Pensacola con O.
nection at Flomaton and bringing it
to Montgomery as train No. 6. arriving
At 6 p. m. At 6:32 p. m. train No. +
I starts for birmingham with this Pen
sacola connection and any passengers
for New Orleans, the latter being trans
fcrred at birmingham to thu southern
Railway.
The trouble on the north end of the
| Louisville and Nashville betWoca
Montgomery and Calera and Birming-
Iham and Decatur has been removed. and
| all trains on the South ana North
div ision are running regularly.
| With the exception of the Louisville
! and Nashville. every road entering tl-
Montgomery union station is running
| its train. on schedule time The Ala
barnI and Florida division of tn" Louis
VILE ana Nashville is handling trains
| regularly, and beyond the fact that
the track is soft in places. everything
! ON that line is all right The train
/ from Gra"rVille. Fla. came in yestcr-
day morning Late. but the trainmen say
! that things are rapidly getting into