Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-03
ABOUT THE DEPOTS
News Notes Picked Up Among tie
Men Who Ride Behind the Iron

Men who Ride Behind the iron
Horse.
The Conreid Opera company came in
on special car over the Il. 1 s. P. yes,
terdsy.
Superintendent II. B. Sudlow, of the
r. l. s. p was in Peoria on business YES
terday.
Switchm.n James Leonard, of the r.
I. s. P, is at work again after several
DAYS confinement with the grip.
Conductor Ed Dee, of the c.. r. I. &
P, is running the construction train dur
ing the absence of Conductor Grant.
John Grimes, of the r. |. & P. switch
crew, has been given better position in
Peoria, and will 90 at once to accept it.
The c., B. Sc Q is building a new
blacksmith shop on First avenue and Fiji
teenth street where the old one formerly
stood.
Clay Darrsh, who pounds brass nights
at the c., NJ, s. ST. P. depot, is back at
his post again after several days wrestling
with the grip.
The large wood shed east of the c., R.
|. & P. round house is being torn down
TO make room fer another track in the
yards. Freight business on the c., r. 1.
& P. is booming.
On the 1st of last September the Bur-
lington people set aside big fund for the
purpose of building new cars and equip
ping the lines. Contracts for new passer-
ger coaches were let among other cOns
tracts and they are now being turned out
as fast as possible.
William Miller, a lsborer on the c., r.
l. s. P construction train, was injured by
clay bank caviBg in on him at the clay
pit near Carbon Cliff Monday afternoon.
He was brought TO Davenport and given
medical attendance. and it is not yet
known Just how serious his injuries may
prove.
A car belon gipg to the Northern Pa
cific containing $25 600 worth of speci-
mems of the products of the state Of O:e-
gon will be at the c., NJ, & St. P. depot
on Feb. 5, and be open to visitors from
1870 to in the afternoon and $50 to
$50 in the evening. 1t is lighted by
electricity from its own plant and is called
Oregon on Wheels"
Several more wrecks OF passenger
trains caused by broken rails were re-
ported during the last week-oE the
Union Pacific near Ums,ills, Ore. two
men being killed; on the st. Louis, Iron
Mountain & Southern near De Sofa. Mo-,
three cars turned over and 10 persons
slightly injured, and on the c., St. 2,
NJ. & O. road near St. Paul, the entire
/ train going into the ditch, but only one
passenger being seriously injured. These
roads are all maintained and managed
with the greatest skill and care, says the
Railway Age, and the accidents clearly
resulted from no negligence or fault OF
| the management, but from defects in the
rails, the existence of which could not be
| forseen.
The Rock Island union depot project
is not looking as bright as it did, and
those who have been promoters of the
great enterprise are feeling anything but
hopeful When in Chicago the Other
day Fred Hass had talk with President
| Cable of the Rock Island road on the
subject. and he stated that his company
need not be expected to furnish any en-
coursgement for such an undertaking.
This being the case II might be good
idea to absud don the plan to locate it any,
where where the Rock Island road
would achieve benefit, but somewhere
further down town than the size hereto>
fore considered, in location equally adj
vantages to the other lines of railroads