San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-26
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.
A Brakeman Tells How Accidents
Occur-Other News.


in speaking of the accident last
Saturday, in which a train of the
San Antonio Il Arkansas Pass ran
into an electric motor car of the
Alamo line and a man was injur-
ed, said to the Rumbler yesterday
that if drivers of vehicles and also
conductors and operators of cleo
trio motor cars, were as careful as
the railroad men, when at street
crossings or any other place,
there would seldom, if ever,
occur an accident. 1t must be re-
membered that the engineer has a
much larger machine to operate
than a driver of vehicle or a mo-
tor man, and that an engine is not
as easily brought to stop as either
of the former conveyances. He
said that on last Saturday he was
on train which almost ran into
farm wagon with five occupants
presumably an entire family. He
said that the train gave the signal
and was coming at a rapid rate,
but the driver thought he could beat
the train and cross the track in
time. The "brakey" said he was
looking for a smash-up then and
there and that his heart (and rail
roadershavel large hearts, was in his
throat. However, through almost
super-human efforts, the engineer
brought the putting iron horse to a
slow rate of speed and the wagon
got safely across the track in the
nick of time.
GOOD WATERMELON CROP.
20 Major w. G.. Lewis, of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe, arrived in
the city last Saturday from a trip
to Corpus Christi, where he had
been a greater part of last week.
He says the country is looking well,
but a little rain is needed, and if
that comes in time crop and cattle
will not suffer this summer. The
major also Opines that Corpus
Christi and surrounding territory
is a country of great resources,
which, if worked up, would be good
tributary to San Antonio. He
says twenty cars of cattle We're
handled by the Santa Fe last week,
which were shipped out of Corpus
Christi, via to San Antonio &
Arkansas Pass. The watermelon
crop, he says, is excellent. Forty
pound watermelOns are sold down
that way for ten cents a piece.
One man sent fifty car loads Of
watermelOns in one shipment last
week. Major Lewis has left again
for trip over the road.
A GOOD RUN.
Southern Pacific passenger train
No. 20 arrived forty minutes late
in San Antonio yesterday morn
ing. The train was late in making
connections at Houston and left
Houston one hour and thirty min
utes behind the scheduled time of
departure. All but forty minutes
was made up on the run to San
Antonio.
PATENT CAR COUPLERS.
A. P. Blue, the roadmaster of the
Southern Pacific, arrived in the
city yesterday afternoon from
Glidden. He left this morning on
No. 90 for Flatonia.
Three trains of eighteen cars each
of steamer freight passed through
the city over the Southern Pacific
yesterday from New York en- route
to California. Fifty-five cars passed
through this morning.
j. Kearns, third trick dispatch
er of the Houston division, re-
sumed duties las night, after a
brief leave of absence. He was re-
ieved by c. D. Sales.
A colonel and ten other officers,
from a railway regiment of the
German army, have arrived in the
United States, where they will
study the American system Of rail-
ways. Each officer will travel
through an exclusive district, to
which he will be assigned by the
colonel.
G. w. Koehl, conductor on the
Buffalo Il Southwestern, and E. A.
Wade, for the Press Cycling club,
recently made bicycle run from
Buffalo to jamestown in 1OI hours.
1t was KoehPs first experience on
country roads. They intend to
lower their present record in a run
from jamestown to Buffalo.