The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-04-16
COLUMBIA FEELING
EFFECT OF STRIKE
Limited Embargoes on All Roads.
Tickets Being Sold Subject
to Delay.
The State, l4th.

The spread of the unauthorized
switchmen's strike to the Potomac
yards just opposite Washington early
Yesterday resulted in the almost total
cutting off of freight traffic from and
to the South, all lines passing
through the yards putting on embar-
goes. Passenger service, which has
been seriously hampered ever since
the beginning of the strike, became
much worse. Seaboard Air Line
railway trains Nos. l, 2, 3, 4, 5 and
s will now all terminate at Rich
mond, while trains Nos. 45 and 46
will be annulled north of Savannah.
Southern passenger trains not passing
through the Potomac yards are being
operated into Washington as usual,
tickets being sold, however, subject
to delay.
Seaboard trains Nos. /, 2, and
4 are through trains from Florida,
making connections with the Penn
sylvania at Washington through
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac
and from there north. Under the
orders received by the local Seaboard
Office yesterday these trains Will
terminate at Richmond, where under
normal conditions the coaches have
been transferred to the r. F. & T.
Passengers will, however, be trans
ferred to and from the r. F. & +.
from the Main street station OF the
Seaboard to the Broad street station
in coaches, the r. F. & P. handling
them north of Richmond in such
trains as can be operated. Tickets
are being sold north of Richmond
subject to delay, the r. F. & T. be-
ing also affected by the strike and
offering only local service between
Richmond and Washington. Trains
Nos. 5 and are the Atlanta-Bir-
naingham Special and are also terml-
mating at Richmond, passengers being
transferred as in the case OF trans
Nos. 1, 2, 8, and 4, to the Richmond,
Fredericksburg & Potomac.
Seaboard Annuls.
Seaboard trains Nos. 45 and 40
will be annulled north of Savannah,
being operated between Savannah
and Jacksonville for local service,
while only trains Nos. 3 and 4 will
do local work between Columbia and
Hamlet. Train No. passes Column
bia at $40 o'clock in the afternoon,
reaching Hamlet at 9:40 o'clock,
while train No. 3 leaves Hamlet at
9:20 o'clock in the morning, arriving
in Columbia at 1925 O'Clock.
The through trains of the Atlantic
Coast Line are being turned back al
Richmond instead of sending them te
Washington to connect with the
PENNSYLVANIA lines for points NORTH
of the capitol. All regular and extra
sleeping cars from points in the Soutt
on all lines to New York moving ovel
the Pennsylvania railroad on day
light trains are being terminated a
Washington. Likewise sleepers haul
ed on daylight trains from New Yorl
to points in the South are starting
from Washington. Tickets for trans
portation in day coaches to points
north of Washington are being solo
subject to delay.
Can Not Ship to North.
Freight traffic has been even hard
er hit, the Seaboard embargoing all
freight carload or less than carload
to be loaded on the rails or to be re-
ceived from its connections consign-
ed or to be reconsigned to all points
except points in the states of Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, South
Carolina, North Carolina. Virginia,
Tennessee, Kentucky and Louisiana
east of the Mississippi river. The en-
barge goes into effect Immediately.
The Atlantic Coast Line early
yesterday morning embargoed all
freight, with the exception of food
stufs, fuel and fertilizers, destined
for points on the Atlantic Coast
Line and points on other lines not
specifically embargoed. This resulted
IN an almost complete tieup of traffic
on the road. Advices received in
Columbia yesterday afternoon give
the information that the embargo
was lifted one hour after it had gone
into effect so that freight traffic is
expected to be resumed as usual this
morning.
IL.