Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-04
OUR RAILROADS.

Superintendent atch's Injuries--The Man
itoba Collision--General Haupt--Starting
the Great Corliss Engine at Pullman--In-
crease of Capital--A Suggestive Right of
Way Decision.
Up to o'clock last evening the result of
the coroner'S inquest at Fergus Falls had
not been received at the st. Paul & Man
itoba headquarters, nor could 1t
be learned that any report OF
the causes and circumstances of the acct
dent had been received there. Through
other sources it is learned that the freight
train was stopped because the engine was
running short of wood and water
aad had run into GAINESVILLE for wood
and water, leaving the train to wait its
return. 1t is also stated that the con
ductor of the freight train had placed
torpedoes along the track to warn the
passenger engineer of danger. 1t was,
however, such a wild weather morning
that the torpedoes might not be heard,
and the air was so full of snow that
lights, if displayed, could not have been
seen any distance. One of the passengers
on the the express train says, however,
that the air brakes were ap-
piled in time to have checked the force
of the express train, but seemed
to work imperfectly. The engineer OF the
express train was Mr.. Benson, son of
Hon Jarel Benson of Anoka, and the
conductor was Mr.. Woolenough. Both
have the reputation of being competent
and careful. Should the coroner's in
quiry show that the collision was caused
by negligence or recklessness, the guilty
person or persons will undoubtedly be
prosecuted At last accounts the
wounded men were doing we'll and the
two least injured had proceeded On their
journey.
General Superintendent c. F. Hatch
will, it was reported yesterday, be con-
fined to his bed for some time by his in
juries which include a severe strain OF
his knees. 1t appears that Mr., Hatch,
accompanied by General Manager
Bishop, Telegraph Superrintend
ent Hope and Mr. Johnson, had
undertaken 10 ride on hand car from
an INSTRUCTED cut, seven miles west of
Worthington, to Sibley. Mr.. Hatch
stepped his weight upon an icy board at
the front of the hand car and the board
slipping from under his feet threw him
off The car in front when it was moving
with considerable velocity. The car did
not run over him but it bruised him
severely and in his fall he was also
bruised and suffered a strain of his knee.
He will be brought home on the first train
through, probably to-day.
General Hermann Haupt, who is re-
ported to have been elected to succeed
Mr. sargent as general manager of the
Northern Pacific road, is not personally
known to railroad men in St. Paul, but is
known to them as the author of several
works on engineering topics, his best
known work being Memoranda for En-
gineers'' From other sources 1t is learn
ed that he was born at Philadelphia in
1917, which will account for his not being
known to the younger generation of men
who are the railroad men of this region.
He graduated from West Point in 1928,
and was appointed to the Third infantry,
but resigned in September following and
was employed as an assistant engineer on
the public works of Pennsylvania until
1889, from which time he was professor
of mathematics in Pennsylvania College
till l847. Then he became engineer of
the Philadelphia & Columbia NOW Penn
svlvania) railroad, of which he was
made superintendent in 1S49. From
1856 to June, 1861, he was principal en-
gineer of the Hoosac tunnel. In 1861,
he entered the army with Pennsylvania
volunteers. April 81, 1862, he was COM
missioned colonel and aide camp,
and September 5, 1862, he was commits
stoned brigadier general and charged
with the general supervision of the
transportation service-in which capac-
ity and as chief of construction and re-
pair of military railroads, he served
through the war in the Army of
the Potomac. Gen. Haupt was
the inventor of drilling
engine, used in making the
Hoosac tunnel, which took the highest
prize of the Royal Polytechnic Society Of
Great Britain His published works,
beside the handbook above mentioned,
are "hints on Bridge Building" 1910;
General Theory of Bridge Construc-
tlon," 1853; "Plan for Improvement of
the Ohio River" 1855; and military
Bridges" 1854 AS to whether he has
been appointed general manager of the
Northern Pacific, nothing can be learned
here All that is known is that tele-
graphic dispatch says, on authority of an
Eastern paper, that he has been ap-
pointed and will Immediately remove to
st. Paul