Show ON THE RAILWAYS thore there was another awful wreck on the union pacific friday morning etan 4 near medicine bow wyoming oue one freight train attempted to paw another on the same track with the usual result in such cases a collision details are meagre but from w what t can be 1 learned ear ned the engineer of the moving train did net discover the other until q quite doe the ponderous lopomo tive went crashing int into the rear of the other train the crew J jumped u aped to save themselves a fire broke out burning a bridge and some cars cara and of the men whose misfortune it was to be in the wreck one was killed outright and three others badly crushed two of them so ao severely that they may not recover the man who was killed was james hughea of shelbyville Shel byville missouri he was on the caboose of the train which was run into it had stopped to cool a a hot box when the other train came t up there are strong indications that the proposed extension of the union pacific from milford lA ilford utah to california will be commenced in earnest within a few months the careful survey made has developed develop ci the fact that the overland route has before it the most practicable line for the building of a railway through the mountain ranges rang eito to the coast and one which will make it more atti attractive active to the traveler than either of the other transcontinental lines the oregon short line extension while it opened a good field for trade yet has not accomplished the object sought and go so far as the general traffic is concerned the union pacific is still an interior line this will be changed with the proposed extension and will ill give an outlet thit that while it does not parallel the other lines vill will raise the road to a dignity that it has not hitherto reached the proposed route foute will be through rich sections of country that only await the facilities of rapid transportation por tation for their wealth to be poured out to the world the shrewd managers of the LT P have noted all these points and fad intend to tb take advantage of hiem before others can get gei lik in the field the action of the union in antagonizing proposed new through line from fram sioux city to salt lake la Is variously commenced upon the projectors of the new scheme are however apparently unabashed and the only effect the opposition that has developed has had is to increase their activity additional preparations are being made to get men in the field in the early spring and the intention is to glie give the union pacific all it cando can do to keep up and show it that it bio baa a faeman worthy borth of its steel the illinois central is not the only road backing the new line but there are others wbk are reaching out abr the great west 64 having become saWed dla with alth the te terms they have been able to make with existing lines there is no doubt that the next few months will see lively times in this connection and it to is not knot unlikely that the union pacific will drop droli its opposition to the sioux city line and devote its energies in opening a new route from the emt east and south to california and oregon the union pacific officials are am having a lively debate just now on the question of a time table that will radically change the present train service some of them ft appears seem to think that too many trains have been launched this year and to determine whether that is a well grounded fact factor or not Is the principal question As near as can be ascertained the passenger and operating departments are clashing though it Is not believed that anything serious threatens their relations one very significant feature of the discussion Is shown in the fact that chicago is being taken into consideration as the starting pola point for all proposed changes of time thus thud showing that there to Is a strong foundation fou for all that has been said aid about alliances between the union pacific and northwestern or all milwaukee for running through trains between chicago and the west there is little doubt that the golden gate special will be abat on oh to chicago and make Us its start from that city within the next few weeks every ona one who has traveled in denmark has noticed the great number of guard houses along the railroads roads and the fact that women usually signal the trains says a writer altar in the philadelphia pres As a measure man and wife aye are employ employed iEA by 4 the state the former as and the utter latter as guard the rules specify elfr the relationship lation ship to exist between these two to of ef employed emp loyes and rules are aie made to be obeyed when it happens that either dies the survivor weeks it in which to fo find another partner neglect to do so is disobedience punished by dismissal the employ employment mielA of brother sister or servant to IM fill I 1 the vacancy is not allowed the guard br track walker must marry in six weeks or leave A ewe case of the kind occurred recently near theold the old town ibe on the german frontier froM fer the stricken widower petitioned the government to allow him on an extra week of at two alleging thit that his work of bf walking all day along the thelt railroad droW track did not give him ft chained anceto ch to look lot for a 9 wife but his request was infused as 66 in itself an of discipline the te hapless widower had only six days of grace left lef but he did not want to lose his job and went delit skirmishing with such energy efterpy that before the end of the fifth day chehad he had a new wife nagging flagging the trains the Jit january nuary number of the bag WV age contains an ah interesting article on railroad construction in the united states during 1888 the aa which have been carefully care compiled and may be accepted as re hable show that within the year new track was wag laid th in all but two of the forty seven adaven states kates and territories the exceptions being rhode hhope island and nevada the total numbers of bf lines embraced in the summary is i representing mites miles of track that have been laid since january 1 1888 while this is much less than the phenomenal increase in the years 1887 1886 1882 and 1881 when the nea new mileage was respectively IS I 1 iseo and miles the record for the pot past year exceeds that of every other year in the history of the edtl try with the further exception of the year 1871 when miles were added commenting on the rather surprising results of the years yearns work in this direct direction foll the ballway real way age says the continuance ance of public to railway j interests in some portions of df the country and the destruction of reve nue by repeated rate wars as and by the division of business among too many 1 competitors all combined to discourage the investment of capital in the construction of new lines and the impression became widespread that the additions to our railway system made during the li present resent year wot would ald be comparatively insignificant but the result has pro proved ved that the expansive and creative capacity of this great land was not generally realized |