| From the Vicksburg Whig |
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| January 4, 1863 |
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| The Rail Road {The Southern
(of Mississippi) RR} |
| For the last Two or Three days we have
been without the usual arrival and departure of Trains. Two Passenger
Trains came in yesterday. The heavy rain of Saturday night over
flowing the Swamp between Edwards' and Bolton's (Baker's Creek) and
damaging the Rail Road near Forest, was the cause of their detention.
The disposition manifested some to raise a cry against the management
of this Rail Road on account of the recent accidents, is we think,
inconsiderate. The Rail Road was built with Light Iron Twenty odd
years ago between Vicksburg and Jackson, designed for the local
business of Forty-Five miles, to be performed with light engines
carrying light trains. It was built with an unusual number of heavy
grades and sharp curves. The exigencies of the government has devolved
upon this Rail Road the heaviest kind of work, forcing the Company to
the necessity of using the heavy engines of other modern built Rail
Roads carrying the utmost number of heavy trains that could run over
it, putting on it Five times as much as it could safely bear. We have
the assurance of the Officers of the Road, that every effort has been
made to procure cross ties and hire laborers at full prices to keep
the Rail Road in repair, and their instructions to those in charge of
repairs, are to make the Rail Road safe, regardless of expense. |
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