The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-11
SECTION FOREMAN KILLED BY ENGINE Tragedy Occurs as EXcur-
 sion Passes BIDS ARE REJECTED Architect Must Prepare New Post office Plans-Southern Puts
 on New Schedule
 Today
BIDS ARE. REJECTED

Gadsden, June tSpecial)-J W. Brown. a section foreman of Attalla, was run down and instantly killed by switch engine in the yards in that city at an early hour. this morning. Brown was at work on the main track of the Southern railway when the ex- cursion train carrying the employees of the Gadsden car works and their families to the annual picnic at East Lake, near Birmingham. pulled into the yards. He stepped off the main track to siding and while looking at the passing excursion train was knocked down and ground to pieces by a switch engine. It was all done so quickly that practically no one but the switch engine crew was aware of the tragedy when the excursionists pulled out Brown was decapitated and otherwise mutil- ated beyond recognition. He was about 50 years of age and is survived by a family.
 More than 1900 people left on the excursion train this morning that car ried the employees of the Gadsden car works to East Lake, Birmingham, for
 
 men carried their families with them and a good many friends of the work CTS also joined in the party and took advantage of the low rate made by the railroad for a trip to the Magic City. The eXcursionists were in charge of Superintendent W. H. Portner of the plant who took 1t upon himself to see that every comfort was provided.
 Postmaster T. H. Stephens has been notified by the department that all bids for the extensive additions to the gov ernment building here have been re- Jected The lowest bid was several thousand dollars in excess of the ap- propriation and did not even include the fixtures which the appropriation was supposed to cover. It is likely that some changes will now be made in the plans by the architect and that new bids will then be asked for. Tomorrow the long expected change in the schedule of the Southern railway between this city and Rome will go into effect. The road will put on one more train each way and make the time of operating the trains so that 1t
  line who want to come to this city for shopping purposes It will now become possible for residents along the road | to come to Gadsden in the morning, do | their trading and return to their homes gain in the afternoon of the same day, whereas under the old schedule 1t was possible only to come one day and re- turn the next.
 | The Nashville, Chattanooga and St Louis railroad has refused to put on a Sunday train on its division running from this city to Guntersville. This is the road that traverses Sand mountain and the people of Boaz, Albertville and Guntersville are at present cut off from all outside communication from Satur- day until Monday. They naturally are very anxious for the Sunday service and will be much disappointed at the road s refusal The matter will now be taken before the railroad commission.
 Judge L. L. Herzberg of the probate court today found Tom Brown of Ala bama City guilty of violating the pro- hibltion laws and assessed fines against him in two cases and added the penalty of hard labor on the roads beside. He was fined $200 and given six months on the roads in each case. The case was appealed
 The council will hold an adjourned meeting on Monday night of the coming week and 1t is probable that at this session some action will be taken look i ing to the oiling of several of the res idence streets of the city This prop osition has been before the board for some time and petitions on one or two streets have been presented by the property holders asking that such inn proyement be made and that the cost be charged against the property own CTS. The first street that will get the oil treatment will likely be Forest ave- nue, where the car traffic and heavy l travel by vehicle makes the dust nuis- ance intolerable