Los Angeles herald., 1892-11-29
THE RAILROADS.
A SANTA FE TRAIN WRECKED NEAR
MONROvIA.
The Engineer Badly Wounded but No
One Kflled-Some One Had Placed
A an Obstruction on
the Track.

The following Associated Press dis
patch from Monrovia gives an account
of wreck oD the Santa Fe near that
place:
A bad wreck occurred on the Santa
Fe one mile east of this city at about 6
p. m. Westbound train No. L, consisting
of mail, two express and baggage cars,
three day coaches and one tourist sleep
er, was derailed. The engine, baggage,
express and smoker left the track. The
engine was ditched, the head end o. the
mail car was smashed, and the trucks of
the express car, also of the smoker, were
badly broken. No lives were lost, but
the engineer was badly wounded. Both
he and the fireman jumped as the en-.
gine left the track. Route Agent Feudge
was severely shaken up. The passengers
were thrown from the seats. A wreck
train and about 200 men are clearing up
the wreckage tonight, and it will take
about day to clear the same. Super
intendent Beamer and Trainmaster
Hibbard are at the scene of
the wreck. The first SUPPOSE
tion was that the rails spread,
but later developments show that some
miscreant must have placed something
on the rail, throwing the front trucks Of
the engine off the track. The weight of
the train caused the mail car to
telescope the tender. 1t is mira
Gle that no one was killed, es-
pecially the engineer. Railway
Surgeon Percival of this city dressed
the wounds of several trainmen. All
the passengers were transferred and
taken to Los Angeles on train 52..
NOTES.
The news telegraphed from New York
on Saturday, confirms the general ex-
pectation that there is to be much
trouble after New Year in railroad cir.
cles. Southern Pacific people believe
that the Panama Railroad company is
fusing to renew it's contract with
the Pacific Mail Steamship COM
pany. and thus, leave its busi-
ness in an uncertain state so far as
the obtaining of freight is concerned.
Other railroad men are of the opinion
that the refusal to renew the contract
must be made because the company has
something else in view than the Chilean
company's business, referred to in the
dispatch. 1t is presumed that there
must be some weighty consideration
which would cause the railroad to dis
regard its agreements in the way it pro-
posed to do.
The interstate commerce commission
is studying the fifth section of the law,
which refers to and forbids pooling by
railroad companies. 1t is gathering the
opinions of traffic managers on the one
hand and shippers on the other, to con-
slider whether the proposition to have
that section of the law amended or ex-
plunged is a sound one. The railroad
companies claim that ''pooling" cannot
work injury to the shipper; that it never
has had the effect of raising rates, and
that to do 90 would be to defeat the ends
for which railroads are operated. The
argument used is that it is impossible to
make rates without consulting the mer.
chant as we'll as the carrier. The mo.
ment rates become too high the carrier
is injuring its business and shutting off,
or, at least, curtailing its source of rev.
enue.
The rains and the rising OF the Color
ado river endangered the Southern
Pacific company's bridge at Yuma to
such an extent that traffic was sus-
pended over it yesterday. The old
bridge is being replaced by new struc-
ture perfect in all details, and it was
officially stated that the new bridge
will be completed today, when trains
will cross as usual.
R. Tenbroeck, the general eastern
agent of the Union Pacific system, with
headquarters at New York, is in the
city.
Peter Mcdonnell. the general agent in
New York of the New York, Ontario and
Western railway, is in town.
General Manager Wade of the South
ern California company reported none of
bis lines as having suffered from the
effects of the rain yesterday.
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