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! caused by the feud which has existedin this county for years and which has caused the death of many people.ARKANSAS RAILROADSTWENTY YEARS AGO.“It is just twenty years since I last Bet foot in Arkansas,’* said Winstead Armitage of Cleveland to a Little Rock reporter the other day. “I came down on the Iron Mountain and had a nice trip, which reminded me of some of my railroad experiences a quarter of a century ago—they were so different.“The Batesville and Brinkley road then ran only from Brinkley to Cotton Plant. It was a peach. It was built only for a lumber road and was owned by Gunn Black, lumber and general merchants of Brinkley. They used to run a caboose for passengers to Cotton Plant. Just one train a day. It was nothing unusual for the caboose to leave the track and turn over, but no one was ever hurt, as it never ran fast enough to cause much of a wreck. They just used to up-end it and continue the trip. Rough? Well it was rough enough to make applicable the old joke of the train on a rough track, which, all at once running smoothly, caused a passenger to ask if the train was on the track again. ‘No,’ said the conductor, ‘we were on the track before; we are running on the ties now.’One very cold day, going from Cotton Plant to Brinkley, the stove wood gave out and we nearly froze. We got off, ran alongside gathering chunks of wood and throwing them in the caboose door. Then we got aboard and made a Ore. The train did not slacken speed while we did this stunt. This is not a joke nor an exaggeration. I think Capt. Day of Memphis was with me 011 that trip.“From Kensett to Searcy—four miles- the only way of travel was by a street car drawn by a sorry mule. It was a queer sight to see a street car in the thick woods.”r \ * xr/'tn
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Newport Weekly Independent
Newport, Arkansas, US
Fri, Jul 10, 1903
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