Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-28
J. II. CARPENTER.
DerapItation on the Rail.

Meagre particulars, says the Los An geleS Times of the 2iith, of one of the ! most sickenIng hUrrO s of the raIl eycI chrOulcled reached this cIty Yesterday afternoon. A pleasant, jolly crowd lei. ! Los Angeles depot on tLe EasterI bound emIgraut train at . o'clock ! Thursday afternoon, but before lt hau proceeded far on Its journey toward the ArizOna plains Joy was turned Co sorrow, and mlrth to awe: and many of thu5t who are on their way e. Eastern homes will, Tor long years, remember the set- ] tlement Of Suadrd, lu Los Augel-s county. The train reHcheG Spadra twenty eight niles from this city, about seven o'clock Thursday evening. Among 1 the passengers who felt tl train Go lJuk about and stretch their limls was oue man who was destined to 70 Do farther ] The name of the unfortunate man could ! not he learned. When the tram s,artt d he, with others, got aboard and stood oh ! the platform. \ gust Cf wind blew of ! his hat, and as the train WAS not vel uu- der much beadway he jumped off to se- cure the hat. In jumping he slipped and fell under the wheei>. head tore
 most, the wheels of one truck passing
 over his neck and almost completely seyerIng the head from the body. The alarm was immediately gwen and the ! train stopped. The sight that met ihe eyes ot the passengers wds sIrkening iu the extreme, the head of the dead man being crushed sO as tO be almost uuiec- ognizable. The name Of the man. hi- age, destination or what disposition was
 made ot bls budy. Was not learned.
  Mr. c. W. Sharp, of Florence. had a ] lively runaway Tuesday. Fe vas out riding with Mrs. Sharp, and while pass ing in front Of the Reagan place the horse became Engineered as something and began Go plunge. MT Sharp checked 1 him long enough for Mrs. Sharp tn gel out Ol the bugg. but she had hardly touched the ErOhnd b, fore the horse staIted tO run, and both lines broke ID
 two. Nr. Sharp then jumptd q out Of the 1 buggy and fell under tLe hud wheel.
 winch passed over his arm and shuul- der. The horse ran into town. breaking one wheel and shaft.
 Mir. r. R. Brady accompanied by Mir Silverberg to Sonora last Wetk io look after some fine properly there belonging partly tc the Joseph CulhngWOod estate. NIT. SIlveTberg anI two other parties are
 also interested Tn the property, and Mir
 Brady went as the agent Ut Judge An derson, the administratbr of the Col
 lingwoOd estate. The property is one Of
 the oldest ranches 10 Souora, and avery large one.
 The Mesa City people are eularcing
 their ditch to about l5 feet iu width at the bottom and tD atOut 10 feet deer, making It one Of the largest dltches in the country. The improvements will he finished in about two weeks. when it
 will carry enough water for a much larger community than now located in
 that section of country. The population
 Is rapidly increasing in that section at
 present.
 Thursday NIr. J. P Gabriel bought out the interests of Mir. Robinson, who was co-uwner with Mtssrs. Gabriel and
 Elder in several fne mining properties at Riverside. The cash was paId durin
 the forenoon, and MT. Robinson took the two o'clock stage that same day for Tucson.
 Two companies of troops from Fort ! Huschuca have gone m pursuit of the
 renegade Apaches, Tn the Dragoon mountains, who. since the massacre of
 Mir. Reynolds and Mr George, have been committing depredations upon the settlers in the way of killing aud duving of stock.
 The Florence Townsite Commlssion- CTS completed thelr labors in a very sat-
 
 bate Judge Bartleson will soon be ready 10 issue deeds to the legal owners.
 The Red Rover mine, on Cave Greek.
 ID Pinal county, owned by Messrs. De
 msrhaix and Cox, has been sold 10 Mir.
 \. c. Fawceit. of San Fran .isco, for a
 consideration O; one hundred thousand dollars.