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Show Railroad Washout in - Mexico Those fflormon Lands. Cm op Mexico, via Galveston, September 27. The manager of the Central Railway is displaying much energy iu repairing the section of the track which has been washed out. Repairs are being made in the most substantial manner. Three wrecking trains with large gangs of peons are . on the road. On "one section, near Masicala and Guana- , juato, two kilometres of traok were washed away to the depth of ten feet. An entire train fell into one of the washed-out places, but without injury to the cars or people on board. Several hundred cars have been delayed, de-layed, and freight has been badly blocked. Mr. E. P. Whiting, of the construction force, had his hand injured, but this is the only accident reported. Six miles of traok at Calera are said to be under water. Subscriptions have been started for the benefit of the imprisoned, newspaper men. There is no longer any popular excitement over the matter. It is said that the recent sale of government govern-ment lands in Chihuahua, on the United States border, is in reality to the Mormons. Bad washouts on the Vera Cruz Railway are reported; one at Apam, in Pulque county, is very serious. No mail train has arrived yet over the Central Railway, and passengers were being fed at interior points. |