Salt Lake Herald | 1896-11-17 | Page 6 | In Railway Circles

IN RAILWAY CIRCLES i leather Novel Way of Collecting a Judgment A SHERIFF HOLDS UP A PASSENGER TRAIN Sale of the Chicago Northern Pacific Pa-cific Today Bond Holders Will Buy I In for 911000000 Union Men Win a Victory Railway Notes Columbia S C Nov 16Some time ag a Failfields farmers horse was killed by a train on the Charlotte Columbia Co-lumbia Augusta railroad one of the longest lines of the south The man sued the company and obtained I judgment for 119 The authorities of j the road were in no hurry to settle and Saturday evening the matter was I put in the hands of the sheriff When the passenger train from this city arrived I ar-rived at Winnsboro the county seat I Sheriff Ellison and Deputy Elliott were on hand The latter presented a pistol at the engineers head and the former chained the drivers to the track When tae eouChijound New York Florida vestibule mail train came up loaded with passengers it could not pass A northbound train from Columbia was also stopped The town authorities started to arrest ar-rest the sheriff The sheriff finally removed re-moved the chains for the arrested train to be sidetracked This the conductor con-ductor told him he could do himself After a blockade of six hours the authorities au-thorities paid the claim and the trains were allowed to proceed All mail and passenger connections were missed Aside fro u the probable action of the postoffice department it is said that the passegers will sue the county for damages and the engineer will bring action against the sheriff for threatening threaten-ing with a pistol