The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-11-01
The COrsicana Signal Service Station
Is Discontinued and a New OF.
flee is to bc Opened at
Palestine Soon.
Three Men Fatally Injured in st,
Louis by Fall from the Top
Story OF a Building.
An Interview With the President o
the New York, Texas 4 Mexi.
can Railroad.
A Sad Suicide at OvertOn Ofa Prominent
Business Man.--A Fire at Waco.
Other Interesting State News.
Galveston.


Galveston.
Special to the Herald.
GALVESTON, October 3l.-ln an interview
with Count Joseph Telefaro, president and
general contractor of the New York, Texas
4 Mexico railway company, at Rosenberg
Junction, the initial point of the line, the
following facts were cleaned relative to the
enterprise: Six miles of steel rails
have been laid and eight Thousand
tonsSof steel rails, equal to one hundred
mHes of railway have been finished. Three
thousand six hundred tons are on hand,
two thousand one hundred tons at Calves
ton and two thousand three hundred tons
atioat to arrive shortly, which complete the
road to Victoria one hundred miles west of
Rosenberg Junction, and to which point
the count says the road will be completed
by the first Of February, 1889, if he has to
lay track at night by electric lights.
The spikes, chains and other fasten-
ingS for one hundred miles of track
are at Rosenburg junction. Over fifty
miles of the line is graded and a large force
is at work grading east from Victoria and
west, from beyond Wharton. Two
hundred thousand ties were con-
tracted and paid for, but in
u
caused by the heavy freight traffic on lines
over which the ties were to be transported,
track-laying has been delayed or the road
would now be in operation twenty-five miles
beyond Wharton. But arrangements have
been perfected by which ties and other
material needed in the construction will be
pushed forward with rapidity, and on and
after November 1st the track will be
laid at the rate of q mile or
more per day Six iron bridges, one of
three spans ofone hundred feet each for the
Colorado river at Wharton, one of one hun
dred feet span for the East Barnard river
and one of the same length for
Peach creek have arrived, and will be
placed in position as soon as the track
reaches those streams. The com
pany have now in use four To-
comotiyes while two Manchester loco
motives are nov on the way, and two
baldwin locomotives are under contract to
be delivered in December. They have fifty
fiat. thirty-fiye box and fifteen
stock cars on hand, and fifty
additional ordered. Count Tlaefaro
has purchased 1900 acres of timber land
west ofthe East Bernard, and has two hun
dred Italian laborers employed getting out
ties and bridge timber and has purchased
a large number of mule teams to haul this
material to the line of the track, and states
that after the East Bernard is crossed the
company will be independent of outside
source for ties and other material of like
character, and the cause of the present
delay will be removed, and the road
pushed forward as fast as men and means
can build it. Outside of the
sixteen sections of land and for for
every mile of road built, they have pur-
chased two hundred and forty thousand
acres upon which it is the intention to
plant colonies of Italians brought over
under the auspices of the company IS
colonization scheme, the head office of
which is in Milan with branches at Paris,
London and New York and negotiations
are pending for permission to open similar
offices in Germany and Sweden.
The fourth party of the expedition of ii0
colonists for colonization on the company's
lands are expected to arrive about
the 9th of November while another
four hundred and fifty are anoat,
two hundred and fifty of whom will 20 TO
lndianola. Besides these, four hundred and
fifty laborers for work on the road
may be hourly expected to arrive.
The company draws all its material and
supplies from this country OK
out already si,9O0'OOO for supplies les
and having the funds on deposit to com,
plete the road to Victoria. An arrange
ment has been made with the Gulf, Colo
cars eaTS of + the Ss"'' New YorGG, Te,ss TeSas
& Mexican railway will run over the former
| line into Galveston, making this city virtu-
ally the true terminus of the line
Trains will be put on as soon as
the latter road reaches Wharton,
The New York, Texas and Mexican is a
standard gauge and runs parallel with the
Texas-Mexican's contemplated narrow
length is three hundred and fifty miles,
and 1t is the determination of the company
to have its entire line completed
to Browsnyille on the Rio Grande and in nc.
| tive operation by the 1st OF January, 1883,
with lateral branches connecting the main
| line with the Gulf OF Mexico, at Layacc
Bay, Corpus Christi, and at Brazos,
San Diego. The estimated cost
of the entire line is $8,750,00O, but the capi.
tai is fixed at $l0,000,000 in order to pro-
vide for all contingencies. Count
the stock. None of IL will
be thrown upon the market until the road
reaches Victoria and It is doubtful if then.
The road penetrates one of the richest and
most productive agricultural and pastoral
sections of the state and has already large
business guaranteed it as soon as the Colo
RADIO river is crossed.
Carter Kuntz, hotel waiter, who had
been on big drunk, got disgusted and
shot himself through the head, producing
death instantly.
A fire broke out this morning in building
ON the strand, occupied on the lower loor
by the wholesale grocery house Of Moore,
Stratton n Co., and in the upper story by
| the offices of John ID, Rogers & Co Me-.
Alpine, Baldridge & CO., hammers,
Flint & Co. and w. Dibrell. The fire soon
spread enveoping the entire upper floor in
mass of flames. Notwithstanding the
heroic efforts of the department the build
ing was almost totally destroyed. The in
surance on the stock of Moore, Stratton d
Co. is $4,000 and the loss will reach
forty per cent. The furniture in the office OF
John ID. Rogers & Co. is insured for $1,000,
hammers Il Flint, insured for $4,000;
| McAlpine e Baldridge lost everything. The
building Is owned by d. ID. Mallory, of
| Baltimore, Maryland, where Il Is insured,
with the exception of $4,000, In local