San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-09-01
UNDER HEAVY BOND.
RAILROAD employees AR
RESTED AT DEL RIO.
Their Arrests Have Caused a Feel
ing of Indignation in this City
Mellor Shot Brady Unintentional-
ly-McGee-Nixon Matrimonial E.
vent Approaching-Local and Gen
eral Railroad News of Interest.

Further particulars of the diff.
Guilty at Pecos Canyon, west, on the
Southern Pacific, in which ID. C.
Pickett and a. H. Brady, of the
bridge gang, were wounded, state
that the trouble originated out of
some personal matter in which W.
H. Mellor, the bridge foreman, was
implicated. The following men,
bers of the bridge gang have been
arrested and placed under $1,000
bond each, charged with being i'm
plicated with the affair: Luke De
Young, James Rankin, Paul Derm-
hardt, f. f. Springer, Harry Rus
sell, J. A. Flint, Kelly and Slim
mons. Local railroad men, who
are acquainted with the men ar
rested are highly indignant over
the actions of the Del Rio authori-
ties, which ordered the men placed
under arrest and bond, and they
say that the authorities had no
cause or provocatiOn to arrest the
men, as they had nothing to do
with the difficulty. All of them
have been employed by the road
for wears, and they have always
behaved as honest, law-abiding cit
liens, and discharged their duties
faithfully.
1t was learned yesterday that w.
II. MellOr, the foreman who shot
Brady, did so unintentionally. He
fired the shot to brighten Brady,
after the latter had cut Pickett,
but missed his aim, and when he
saw Brady fall, he was thrown in
to state of discontinue.
THE LIGHT WILL SHINE.
Thomas McGee, the genial clerk
in the Southern Pacific freight
house, was granted a thirty-days
leave of absence today and will be
relieved by II. l.. Estelle. He will
remain in this city until next
Monday night, when he will be
united in the holy bonds of we'd
lock to Miss Grace Nixon, a popu-
lar young lady of this city and
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. r. G..
Nixon. Mr.. and Mrs. MCGEE will
then take the "Katy Flyer" and
spend this honeymoon on a pleas
ant trip to the Columbian eXpOsi-
ton. They will also visit a num-
Der of other northern and eastern
cities and will take a trip to
Canada, where Mr.. MCGEE has rela-
tives. The young couple is al
ready receiving boquet of hearty
congratulations and the LIGHT
will constantly shine over their
path through married life and will
see that they will always live on
the bright side.
LOCOMOTIVE PUFFS.
The LIGHT takes pleasure in
stating that prospects for railroad
men are Frightening and that the
road will soon place the forces that
have been laid off on account of
dull times back in their old posi-
tions, which will probably be this
month. 1t is generally known
that when railroad men have
money nobody has cause to COM
plain of hard times, as they are, as
a rule, the most generous people on
earth, and want to see everybody
in a good mood.
Captain John NJ. Knight, city
ticket agent for the Southern Pa
cific has received the joyful news
from his wife in New Orleans OF
the arrival of a brand new girl.
II. Shanks, foreman blacksmith
of the San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass, has been granted a thirty
days leave of absence to visit rel
atives and friends in. Virginia and
Washington City and on his re-
turn will visit the Worlds fair.
Next week the Conductors Ole
|, Reliable Insurance association viii
hold it's annual meeting in Detroit
This is the oldest of the railway
organizations, the Brotherhood O
Locomotive Engineers excepted.
: The Kansas City, Pittsburg anC
, Gulf railway will be open for bus,
mess to Joplin, Mo-, and Sulphur
Springs, Ark, Sept. 10. Joplin i:
155 miles from Kansas City anG
Sulphur Springs 21O miles. Novem
Der LIST the company will open ;
line from Sulphur Springs to Sill
van Springs, a distance of twenty
five miles.
Today will note the retiremen
of C. H. Fitzgerald as western pas
+ senger agent of the Louisville AM
a Nashville Arkansas City, and tina
office will be abolished. The offic