Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1913-09-12
Two Railroad Wrecks.

Two wrecks have occurred this week
on the Mobile & Ohio a short distance
north OF Macon, the last one. a freight
wreck, being the result Of the first.
North bound passenger train No. a,
due in Macon at 4:44 p. m, jumped the
track about two miles north of the de-
pot Monday afternoon and all the cars
left the track, the only thing remaining
on the track being the engine and the
diner the head and the tail. The ten
der Of the engine leaving the track was
the cause Of the trouble. For 200 feet
all the rails were swept clear of the
ties and the ties were badly splintered.
None of the cars left the embankment,
which no doubt saved much property
loss, as well as loss Of life, as the en-
bankment where the run-of occurred
was several feet high. None Of the
passengers were hurt, but many were
badly scared, as the cars we're given a
good shaking up. 1t is said that the
engineer, as o as he saw no serious
damage had been done the coaches,
started to crawl under his engine to see
t any damage had been done to it,
When a woman passenger pulled him
Jack and gave him a good hug to show
'er% appreciation. The engineer modest.
y denied being a hero, saying hat he
'ad only done his duty, but the lady in
'sted that by sticking to his post he
,ad saved the lives of a score of passen-
,ers.
As stated above, the wreck was caused
" the tender of the engine leaving the
ack, and it is said that 1t was the
'ourth time the same tender has been
II in twelve months.
The traffic was tied up more than
welve hours, the wreck occurring about
i've o'clock and it was six o'clock next
morning before the track was cleared.
The second wreck was caused by the
first, as the local freight jumped the
rack at the same place Wednesday
morning at ten O'Clock. Three cars
left the track and two were pretty bad
~ smashed up. Some local freight, it
is not known how much, was damaged. /
Mr.. Jim Carpenter, of the Lynn Creek
neighborhood, was in town yesterday.
He says the gravel roads that have
been built from Brooksville across the
for a distance of eight miles, is a
thing Of beauty and every one hopes
that it will be a joy forever. The levee
work through the Noxupee river swamp
is a piece of road work especially to be
admired. The commissioners of that
contemplate making a gravel
road several miles south from Green
field church to rabbit" which will
all that section a good road to
that hustling town. That district will
have, IN all, fifteen miles of gravel road.
Mr.. Tom Jackson was in town the
early part of the week en- route to
Louisville to attend the Winston county
fair. He stated that the storm last
week did not do his crop any material
and that he had just filled a
silo from patches of corr that
he raised around the house. He said
when he first moved to the prairie about
fifteen years ago it was his ambition to
own all the land around him, but has
been converted from that idea and is
now going after land underneath. He
turned up last winter and spring ground
that had never been stirred and has
purchased subsoiling plows and will get
three inches of dirt next year that has
never yet seen the sun. His corr crop
averaged from so to rs bushels per acre
this year, something he has never done