. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . people to safety. Many of the watertanks were thrown down, but the headsof the departments managed to keepthe road running. Nothing could sur-pass the service of the road in convey-ing the immense crowds everywherefree, and bringing back tons of pro-visions to feed the hungry thousandsthat Tlu- railrnad men, Mr, clothing they had on, but they neverflinched from their duty for a work was only equaled by thegenerosity of the people along the road,who readily opened the
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . people to safety. Many of the watertanks were thrown down, but the headsof the departments managed to keepthe road running. Nothing could sur-pass the service of the road in convey-ing the immense crowds everywherefree, and bringing back tons of pro-visions to feed the hungry thousandsthat Tlu- railrnad men, Mr, clothing they had on, but they neverflinched from their duty for a work was only equaled by thegenerosity of the people along the road,who readily opened their doors to thesuffering refugees, who did not seem toknow where they were at. From other correspondents we learnthat the shops of the Santa Fe at SanIrancisco were considerably damaged,and through traffic delayed for severaldays. At San Luis Obispo the vibra-tions were not of so great magnitude,but the alarm among the people wasvery great. Railroad property wasmuch damaged, and several dayselapsed before through traffic wasopened up. It is stated by a corre-spondent that Santa Rosa has suflFered. r.\SSENGER i-ti-i ENGINE I-OR THE SOUTHERN. Stewait, McLhanical Superintendent. in many places as much as fifteen feet,and the corkscrew movement conveyedits peculiarity to many of the rails,some nearly describing the letter No. 14 and three cars were over-turned, and many of the bridges weremuch damaged. The burning of SanFrancisco, that lasted three days andthree nights, as seen from Sausalitowas a spectacle of awful and unparal-leled grandeur. Mr. E. S. Shick, of Newark, Cal,, tellsof a narrow escape of a freight train onthe Southern Pacific Railroad. Adouble header freight train had juststopped to take water when the rum-bling commenced. The engineersagreed that they had better move awayfrom the water tank. When the cork-screw movement began, the tank came Foley states, were the only people whokept cool during the terrible periodfollowing the shock. Mr. E. A. Kelsey,
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