The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-24
RAIN HALTS
 RAIL SERVICE Tracks Temporarily De- stroyed by Water. TRAFFIC IS 0BSTRUcTED Louisville and Nashville Trains
 Delayed. Derailment of Trains On Account of wsshouts Causes No Personal Injuries But Breaks sehed-
 uIes Disastriously.

Not since Superintendent McKinnie of the Mobile and Montgomery division of the Louisville and Nashville had ms ~,.a vsrtually rebuilt after the terrific storm d few years ago has there been as much damage to the division as was done yesterday.
 The trouble was caused by the ter rife and almost incessant rain tnat set irl about noon Sunday and contln- ued with hardly any cessation untli nearly 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon. During the entire time the ram was not only steady but very hard' al times pouring in torrents. This was espscialIy the case Sunday night and yesterday morning when for several hours there was about the hardest ram that has been experienced throughout this section in several years.
 The result of the downpour was that the Mobile and Montgomery division was completely put out of business all dav vesterdav and practically tied up from midnight Sunday till 10 o'clock last night For a distance of forty one miles the road is practically wash ed up. washout after washout devel- oning at such close intervals as to make it one big washout of forty-one miles.
 From Montgomery to Brewton-a distance OF lU3 ullcS--oilAS hafu0i troubles have been encountered, but troubles fair bristled in the next eight miles between Brewton and Pollard. PolIOrd is lI3 miles from Montgomery and Flomaton i1e miles, and in those six miles there were no less than six wash outs. The entire distance of the sixty-seven miles from Pollard to Mo- bile was in pretty bad shape, and a great part of the work of rebuilding that part of the road that was washed up by the tropical storm of 1906 III have to be done all over again.
 Every section crew that could be spared from that part of the division between Montgomery and Brewton was put to work all the way between Pollard and Bay Minette.. the worst of the damage being in that territory.
 Roadmaster Shields. Master of Trains Mizelie and other officials of the division put in a strenuous days work. Between Pollard and Flomaton there are several streams that ordin- arlly are lgnifcant--yesterday they were raging like mad bulls while rock-and -slag- ballasted roadbeds, heavy fills and even wooden trestle work went to the bad like so much paper.
 Just this side of the yard limits of Fiomaton Is the Escambia river which yesterday was sweering everything before 1t. Down the road thIrty-four miles south of Flomaton is the station of Atmore--while the washouts be- tween Fiomaton and Atmore are pret- ty bad they are small compared to the condition of the road from Atmore on. From Atmore to Bay Minette the twenty miles of roadbed is practically built on made land all the way numer- ous creeks and smaller streams mak- ing 1t necessary to build the road on pi1ing for a good part of the way. Nearly every mile of track between Atmore and Bay Minette was badly washed up. nearly all of the twenty miles being a big flood.
 From Bay Minette into Mobile, twenty of the twenty-six miles, are in the famous Tensas Swamp-the bayous and rivers are so close together that to get track there at all seven big draw bridges had to be built. Strange to say. this part of the road is in fairly good shape as some time ago the draw bridges and other parts of the track through the swamp were made heavy enough to permit the running of the