Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1891-01-10


misplaced switch on ho, Syringe branch
near Electric light ard no Hing com
psnys building, on the evening Of de.
cember 10Th, causing accident 10 extra
freight train engine 3Ot. This 10 the
accident In which A. X. Nonea, q pdpu
lar young gentleman % Las Vegas, met
hia death.
The railroad boys state that there are
two irresponsible operators on the Al
lan,.c 4 Pacific For instances, the late
item about cowboys forcing q freish,
conductor to take them q ride. The
whole affair was greatly maguiHed.
dad" Butler, an old Atlantic a Paci.
hc engineer, running vest trom Winslow.
n here Waiting his family. Hon \.
Thompson had charge ~ Dads" Gu
ains when II hsw the track and tipping
over, caught him underneath, from
which he died.
Orders we're received in Kansas City,
at the Western Union telegraph com.
pany's headquarters, Saturday, making
n reduction ~ rate ~ from 10 10 ~ per
cent, on business to Kansas, Nebraska,
Colorado aud New Mexico, 10 20 into
effect January |.
Chas Gardner, who formerly worked
in tn. yards here but now AT W,nsiow,
Is visiting the city and has an unpluckei
Rose" at the Windsor. ChGfley has a
poetical turn 81 mind. and can make
the outcome 81 The lines rhyme with
Gardner and Rose.
Grant Utter, n young railroad man Of
EWt Sherman, Tex, ran away with Mics
Clara Bnrrman, u that place, and the
two we're married, on the second nj
tempt, in he Indian Territory. After
they got back they learned that mar
rlngcs IN the territory were not legal
~ they got married again.
Tho Topeka CapitsI says: The Santa
Fe has had corps Of engineers in the
field Tor some time running y lire from
Newton. Kansas, aud Panhandle City "a
Albuquerque, n. NJ. The proposed ex
tsnsion from Panhandle City would open
mp n good stck raising country aud also
shorten the Atchison, Texas 4 Santa Ia
southern route aud form n valuable ioot
TO their main line.
ben n. Thompson, a freight enginee'
on the Atlantic 4 Pacific, met with hor
rible death - Saturday night in John
sons canon, two mil-s This side Of FAN
view HIS train was a very heavy one
but the p"SerfuI engine used in III,
mountains was making fast time. All OF
u sudden the locomotive flew the track
aud in turning over Mr.. Thompson wa,
caught underneath. The right leg be
Low the knee was badly crushed and th'
left thigh broken below the hip. lie wa,
under the wrecked engine four hour,
aud during that time cold water from
the tank poured onto him. When ex
treated life still remained In his body
but no died shortly after Icing put OF
the passenger train for this city, which
arrived early this morning. A brother
engineer, John X. Wood, accompanied
the remains TO this city, and they will b,
embalmed this afternoon by Mr.. Krem
pie, preparatory TO shipment to 81
Joseph, Mo, where his wife Is now visit
ing her parents The deceased was :
mem5er in good standing Of the Is. Of l.
f., division lA at winslow, and hst
been in the employ Of the company To-
about seven years. lie was young en-
gineer, probably not over Is years old
and had been married about ten months
marrying oue Of the young iadies at tn,
Depot hotel, Williams. lie is reported
TO have come west from Toronto, Cana
da, where he has relatives living.