The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-03-21

Running through water AZ inches
above the rails. train No. 1, due in
Pensacola Wednesday afternoon.
reached the city yesterday afternoon
at $40 o'clock, bringing delayed mail
and passengers from the north A.
tached to this train were also several
cars of live stock, which had been
held up such length of time by hign
water and washouts that some of the
animals were dead. The largest en-
gfnes in use on the NJ. & NJ division
we're necessary TO pull the train
through the two miles of water north
OF Pensacola, and even then the fires
in the engines were extinguished and
had to be rekindIed when dry terri
tory was reached. After the first train
came through a number of others We're
moved south, reaching the city during
the late afternoon and early portion OF
the night.
SOLID CAR OF MAIL.
Attached to the first train to arrive
from the north was a solid car of first
and second class mail matter. and
every available clerk at the postoffice
was placed at work boxing this mail
the minute it reached the postoffice.
with the result that practically all OF
it had been worked up before mid
night. Other trains. from the north
brought newspapers and other mail
matter, much Of which was handled
during the afternoon and night.
WATER is REcEDING.
Tie water began to recede early yes
terday morning, but went out very
slowly. From 2 o'clock in the forenoon
to O'Clock yesterday afternoon there
had been a fall of four inches, and it
is expected that it will be several days
before the water is clear of the railway
tracks.
To minimize the Feasibility Of acci-
dents or wrecks, the EoufsvIIIe &
Nashville has a force OF men patrolling
that section of the inundated track
night and day, watching for possible
washouts or log ends that might float
up and lodge on the track The in
section is about two miles in
length and extends north from Pine
Barren. Tt is impossible to transfer
the passengers, as that portion north
of Pine Barren is surrounded by n
dense swamp.
THE WRECK rs CLEARED.
The wreck which occurred Wednes-
day afternoon at Shoal river trestle,
south of Crestview on the P. & A di-
vision, was cleared up yesterday and
traffic resumed on that division The
first train to enter the city from that
arrived BetOre the
noon hour. bringing passengers and
mail due in the city the night pre-
vfous.
Eight cars jumped the track at Shoa1
river, and all of them loaded with
freight, toppied over into the swol-
len stream. The trestIe was badly dam
aged by the cars before they went over
and IT took a big force OF bridge
workers all of Wednesday afternoon
and that night to repair the damage.
FREIGHTs ARE STARTED
Last night was a busy one with tho
Louisville & Nashville officials in Pen
sacola, for in addition to handling the
regular and extra passenger trains
Into and out of the city. they began
the congested freight The
latter had been piiing up at F1omaton
for several days and there were also
several hundred cars in Pensacola TO
be moved. Extra freights were sent
,ut in both directions during the night
and several entered the city.
OF course. live stock, was given the
preference and several cars were at
tached to passenger trains and brought
10 the city.
REGULAR SERVICE TODAY.
It IS expected that the regular pas
senRer and freight service can be re-