The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-09-23

amount virtually making the BOND
Szeo. 600.
Mr.. Cades bondsmen are menlbersl
q his family. They are G. M
Smedes. Capt. C. Taylor Cade. Hon.
Dudley Avery. of Iberia, and VIM.
Cade, of Vermillion. Each of the
bondsmen has signed for Sz5. 600
and have qualified for $1oo,e 900 last
Monday.
Mr.. Cade, in conversation with a
Times Democrat reporter said, that
he was gradually dismissing all the
old force in order to take in Demo-
Gratis, and that ere long every Reppb-
lican in the Mint would be out. He
said that. while he had to discharge
the ladies under him who were in his
department. with much regret he had
to take in consideration that each
and every one of them had been in
the Mint for years, and that he
thought that there were a great
many deserving Democrats who had
never been given a chance. and that
it was his duty to help them. < In
almost every case the lady employees
of the Mint have been in Office many
years, and Superintendent Cade
; thinks that they should gives others
a chance. This rule he had made
, i'll. his, department., where he has
only three ladies, the other ladies
in the Mint being in the coiner's
department..
The Accident At Harveys Cannal.
We take the following from the
Times Democrat of Sunday. The
fireman, Joe Waller, whose name is
mentioned, is q resident of Lafayette
and has many friends here who were
happy to learn that he had escaped
! unhurt.
Last night at TEAS o'clock, as
engine No. 339 and a working train
caboose came dashing by the little
collection of houses on the Southern
Pacific road, at Harvey's Canal, the
| residents of the place who were hor
rified to see the engine, as it reached
/ the railroad bridge, give a leap, and
then with wild kissing of steam go
| down into the waters of the canal.
The engine fell almost perpendicu-
larly, the tender stood up also verti-
cally, one end of it resting on the
! engine in the canal and the other
supporting the caboose, which reared
Itself upward in the air, at an angle
of about 80 degrees.
Immediately the people ran to the
spot to render what assistance they
could. 1t was found that the draw
bridge was open, train a wreck, and
the trainmen were picking them
selves ND from all sides. The engi-
neer, Mike Inch, and the fireman,
Joe Waller, were on the engine when
it struck the bridge, and the en-
gineer, seeing the danger, yelled to
the fireman to jump. WALLER did SO,
and fortunately landed in the middle
of the canal, and save Slight wound
of the hand was unhurt. The
momentum of the train was SO great
that he jumped twice as far as he
intended, and had he delayed his
jump a moment later his body would
have been dashed against the Piling
opposite, and he would have doubt
less been killed. The people who
came up saw him swimming out,
Engineer Lynch stuck to his place
| anu went uO"n WITH MS engine 10
the bottom, of the canal. His ex-
perience was thrilling and his escape
marvellous. At the first sight of the
open bridge he reversed the lever,
opened the sand valve and yelled to
his fireman to jump, He did not
jump himself nor attempt to, and
after the first shock of the falling
engine he found himself under the
water with his left leg pinioped
between the engine and the tender.
Very fortunately the leg was not
fastened too tight, and with great
effort he pulled it out, leaving part
of the skin and flesh on the tender.
He then, with commendable presence
of mind and quicker than a flash,
broke the glass Of his window and
crawled oHt through it and came to
the top. He attempted to swim to
shore and was picked up bya party
of fishermen, Consisting of Aessrs.
f. F. Dickinson; Dan Kelly. Thomas
Vaughn and John McCrackea.
! The people CT the place, after a
fsasty examination, found that
neither the conductor, Fred Marie.
nor the brakemen. jim Finlay and
Jim Foster, were hurt, and turned
their attention to the engineer, Mike
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