The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-02-21
RACKET ON THE RAIL.
Interesting Items From Every
where for the. Benefit of
Railroad Men.

jay Gould's latest grab, charging shop
men ut st. Louis fifteen cents for riding
over the Iron Mountain road from the city
To Carondele., where they work, has created
great dissatisfaction among the employees.
Charley Ware, the president OF the
Times printing company, is doing some
very fine work in the railroad line. Charley
has his Spanish language at work on tine
Missouri Paciiic's list bill.-Globe-D Demo-
crat.
"A railroad gentleman arrived in st.
Louis Friday last from attending the
funeral near Elmira, n y, of the late
Major Washburn, chief engineer of the
construction company, killed in a railroad
accident in Texas, of which full accounts
have been given. The funeral was attend
eel by the father and sisters of deceased,
together with a large concourse of citizens.
The funeral also of NJ. w. Stoll, wife and
son, who were killed at the same time
with Maj or Washburn, took place in New
ark, y. j., the remains having passed
through here q few days since.
The latest addition to the list of future
Kansas railroads is the Wichita II North
western railway company. which will run
from Wichita through Sedgwick, Harvey
and Mcpherson counties to Mcpherson,
and thence to Hays City, through Reno,
Rice, Ellsworth, Russell, Barton, Stafford,
Pawnee, Rush and Ellis counties. 1t is
estimated that the length of the line will
exceed $50 miles. The capital stock of the
company has been placed at S2,000,0O0. 1t
is supposed To be move inaugurated by
some New York capitalists.
Tho I-,;o, 80
fitting up its new car shops at Omaha,
which are notable as being the largest car
shops under one roof upon the continent
The structure is one hundred and seventy
feet wide and four hundred feet long, and
rests upon one thousand cypress piles.
There are five sections, the east and west
sections being two stories high and the
intermediate one story in height. The roof
is divided into five gables, set with sky
lights, and the extent of the windows in
the sides and ends render the structure
practically glass house. A double en-
CINE of 200 horse power drives the ma
chinefy. and, with the boilers, is housed
in brick building detached from the
shops. Over one thousand men are now
on the pay roll of this division of the
shops. The main work is repairing cars,
but numbers OF fine passenger, mail, bag
gage and express coaches are turned out.
MIR. L. b. Scott, the conductor of the
train on the Texas road which ran into the
hand-ca causing the death of Major
Washburn and the StOll family, was him.
self badly crippled on Friday last while
trying to couple two cars on side-track
near Waco. He was taken to Waco on a
Missouri Pacific train, and thence to a
drug store. What then occurred is thus
stated by the Waco Examiner of the 1lth
inst: "When the physicians looked at him
they found that the fore-6nger of the right
hand was nearly off at the second joint,
and his thumb on the same hand was con-
siderably mashed. The finger, as soon as
the patient could be got under the influence
of chloroform, was removed and the thumb
dressed, after which the hand was wrapped
up. MIR. Scott lay upon pallet upon the
floor, and as soon as he recovered from the
effects OF the opiate, he looked up at Mr..
Plunkett, who had brought him, and was
told that as soon as he got rested he would
be taken TO a nice quiet room. Looking
again he saw the doctors standing around,
and remembering that he was brought to
have the finger taken off, he told them to
go on with their cutting, if they were
going to do it, The physician held his
hand up before his face and told him that
they were all done. He looked. terribly
surprised when he saw the stub of finger
and remarked, You are awful fly, amt
YOU" "