Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-06
WAFER CAUSE OF.
MUCH CHAGRIN
FAILURE TO HAVE FILTERED
PRODUCT IN LOCAL TANK
sPolLs TIME RECORD.
FAST MAIL RUN LATE
No. is Lost FHty-Five Minutes
Through Failure to Steam Be-
tween ottumwa and creston
This Morning.

One had best approach the operat
ing oficials of the Burlington on the
Ottumwa division with caution for the
next few days, nor Is 1t safe to men.
ton Ottumwa water to any OF them.
The loss of fifty-five minutes on the
fast mail train No. Is this morning
between Ottumwa and Creston Is the
cause and the effect is the loss OF the
much cherished and hard-fought for
record of all passenger trains into the
Missouri riveT terminal on time for
month. All were sure that It could be
done, and all we're equally determined
that it would be done unless the un-
avoidabIe happened. The mechanical
department as we'll as the operating
officials, engine and trainmen, In fact,
all who in any way could be respon-
sible for the running of the trains,
were keyed up to the required pitch
that would not permit Of fall down
during May It is known that the Bur
lington has repeatedly lead other
Omaha roads in landing her passenger
trains into the Union station at
Omaha on time during the monthly
periods in the past few years, and the
road felt justifiable pride in it. None
worked harder than the Ottumwa
division to handle the traffic on record
time and at the same time keep within
the running schedules of the various
trains.
Lost Time at Dudley.
An order was issued from the head
offices of the company short time
ago to the effect that an effort be made
to land every passenger train during
the month of May, into Omaha on
time. The success of the past spurred
the operating men as we'll as the
men at the throttle, and trainnlen
to their utmost 1t was even thought
to obtain permission to exceed the
running time where unavoidable de-
lays occurred by making up time at
greater speed than is permissible by
the time card for the several trains.
Everything looked bright in the pros
pect until this morning when after
leaving Ottumwa on time with tank
full of water taken here, but which 1t
is now regretted was not taken at
Fairfield, the fast mail began it's race
toward the Missouri river metropolis.
But short distance from Ottumwa
and the engineer and fireman had
of their own. The engine had
fine until then, but the
farther from Ottumwa they proceeded,
the poorer the engine steamed, and
when Dudley, some twelve miles out,
was reached, the enginemen were In
q state that sometimes provokes
sulphuric utterances. From bad to
worse showed the pressure on the
steam guage and between Dudley and
Tower number 307, q distance OF
some eighteen miles, the erstwhile
feet moving train lost twenty-nine !
minutes. Ottumwa water was then
made the subject of anathems and a
general unfriendly discussion among
not only the men of the train but the /,
men on the wire who watched the per-
Torrance as we'll
Building Filter.
The work on the new filter at the
Ottumwa water works and the result
ant muddy condition of the water,
which is very dirty and black, caused
the supply taken by the fast mail
engine to cake in the boiler and pre- Is
vent steaming. No more water will be
aiken at Ottumwa when it is possible !
10 get it along the road. by passenger
rains at least, until the condition of .
the water supply is considerably
clarified. {