The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-02-28
RAILROAD.

! INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. E.-
George l.. Bradbury. general manager
of the Lake Erie and Western, yes
terday sent to Richard Henry Neff,
the heroic brakeman who was nearly
killed at Peru in the recent wreck, a
gold watch and chain valued at $500.
In addition to this gift. the company
will take care of Neff in a good pO.
sition IL soon rs he is able to go hack
on the road Tomorrow he will he
presented with the medal voted to him
by the legislature.
A DAMAGE SUIT AGAINST THE KATY.
WACO. Tex. Feb. 22.-A suit for
$4,000 damages against the NJ. h.
Il 7. II. X. was filed in the district
court Yesterday by the wife. children
and parents of Joseph ID. Williams,
killed by a freight train at Bruceville,
Tex. January ~. last. at "a crossing.
CHAT WITH \ CONDUCTOR.
Conductor Jack Dean. of the | Mon
Pacific, with a run between Pocalello
and Glenn's Ferry. was westbound
passenger Oh train No. | this morn
ing. en- route to Pocarello from Sc
daIia, No., where he has been visiting
his family for month past.
Mr.. Dean is u native of Missouri.
having been born in Henry county.
near Clinton. and for several wears he
ran train on the Missouri. Kansas
and Texas road. between Sedalia and
Parsons, Kansas.
Something more than year ago he
was in charge of train that met with
an accident. and which resulted in his
leaving the company employ. Next
to the caboose on the train referred
to was fiat-car loaded with railroad
rails. The rails became displaced.
owing to the jar of the car and in
crossing the bridge that spans the
Usage river one Of the rails came in
contact with the structure. The rail
was driven backward through the
caboo>e. and Mr.. Dean was caught
between the broken timbers and
quite seriously injured.
Suit for $4,000 damages was ins,i-
tuted against the company, but the
case never went u trial, the company
paying Mr.. Dean quite sum in the
way of a compromise. MIR. Dean then
came west and for nearly year past
has been running train on the In
ion Pnciiic.
Speaking of the weather hack in
Missouri, MIR. Dean says that the sun
never shone tor more than an hour at
time dnring his entire visit, but that
it was colder and more disagreeable
than he had ever known it before in
that section. Idaho. he SAYS. is Gods
own country, and he will remove his
family there at an early day.-I<pn-
ME Wyo., Republican FIJI. 20.
-General Freight Agent Allen was
in Kansas City Yesterday.
General Superintendent J. J.
Frey, of the katv's Greenville line,
was in Kansas City Yesterday.
The Missouri. Kansas and Texas
railroad will soon have liz hea,lJuart-
ers and main eastern terminus in st.
Louis. and the Indications are that
the company will give a through
line 10 Kansas City by the way of
Boonville.
The Kansas City. Boonville and
st. Louis Is the name of new rail
road company just Incorporated at
Jefferson City by the stockholders of
the independence Air Line. The in
tention j. TO huild u road from the
Independence terminus to B"nville,
where a connection will be made with
the st. Louis line of the Missouri,
Kansa. T. Texas. The road when
completed will probably he used by
the katy" in connection witha direct
line between Kansas City and 81.
Louis. Surveyors are at work on the
right-ofway and the work ofconstruc-
ton will begin as soon H. the plans
have been decided upon.
hnRRlRI CRlAAE