Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — Am ILL-Starred Rainroatl [ARTICLE]

Am ILL-Starred Rainroatl

K ail the items of ill fortune which hare happened to the Louisville, Nev/ Albany & Chicago railway Company during the lad fifteen or eighteen months con Id be written out in detail, they would make such a list of misfortunes as mjgiit well convince the superatjtioue that the road was persued by a Nemesis of evil. Two great bridge accidents, with appalling lose of life, and great destruction of property, are »t the head of the list. Then follows collision after collision ; wreck after h reck, £ rota wispleced switches; wreck after wreck from broken rails; wreck after wreck from running over cattle and horses; many fine cars burned in the yards; great loss from interuptioD of traffic by floods and snows; and belly a most extensive and constantly increasing list of heavy judgments given by the courts against flte road, maiidy on account of accitMJnte to individuals. Verily the lines ■of the L., N. A. A 0. have fallen in hard places, aud its ill-fortunes have been far beyond its deserts.