San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-15
SCENES IN WONDERLAND.
Rain-washouts-D eaths-Banquet.
Personal.
MONTERREY, Mex, Oct. 4.

ram ltll anu "dSuOuIS Jhdu was
ever known before. There has been
a number of washouts on the Mon
terey and Mexican Gulf, the Next
can National, and the Mexican In
ternational railroads. The Gulf
road suffered the most, as 1t crosses
a number OF mountain streams,
between Trevinio and Victoria, and
all traffic was suspended on it for
several days.
During the last freshet there were
three beams carried off the San
Juan bridge and the telegraph
wire broken. Mr.. w. B. Wilkin-
son, the superintendent Of the
elegraph line, while trying
t. make connection went into the
river and got caught in the current
and before aid could reach him he
sunk and rose no more, and up to
this writing his body has not been
recovered. He arrived here last
spring from New York. He leaves
a wife to mourn his loss.
FATAL WRECK.
The mixed train that left Laredo
at a. m. yesterday double header
on the Mexican National railway.
At about s p. m. when on this side
of the Salinas, it was overtaken by
a heavy rain storm and was dark
as pitch, the head engine with ID. F.
Drennen at the trottle, the engine
ran over a yearling, which threw it
off the rail. It run on the ties I'M
til it struck a small bridge when it
capsized into the creek, and the
second engine which was in charge
of Joe Sharpe was ditched also,
Drennen was caught under his en-
CINE in about five feet of water and
he was drowned.
Joe Sharpe was also caught, and
his legs were badly bruised and
scalded from his hips to his
shoulders. He lived until
four p. m. today. The fire.
man escaped by jumping off
before the engine struck the
bridge.
Drennen's body was embalmed
and shipped to his home in Penn.
sylvania. He was married and
leaves a wife and two children.
Sharp's body was also sent to his
home in Missouri, he was a single
man.
Drennen had been connected with
the road for about six years, and
was very popular.
BANQUET.
On the first of October the Hon.
Carlos Berardi gave grand dinner
and banquet to the following men,
bers of Congress and few friends
at the Marble hotel, Topo Chico:
Hon. Cara Flores, Hon. P. Benites
Leal, Hon. Victor de la Cara,
Hon. Morales Salines, Hon. Rafael
Y Fernandez, Hon. Y. Morelos Ear
agoza, Hon. DR.. P. de Martinez,
Hon. Miguel c. Ayala, Hon. Pedro
Trevino and DR.. Ramon Trevino.
The menue consisted of oyster
soup, oysters, roast turkey, brOiled
chicken, boiled ham, salads, cakes,
pies, wine and champagne.
Speeches were made and toasts
drank, and a glass to the health
Of the hostess, Mrs. f. r. Glass,
was also emptied. The guests paid
her high compliment for the en-
ergy and enterprise shown in build
ing the only marble hotel on this
continent. 1t is a credit not only
to the city but also to the state Of
Nueva Leon.
PERSONALS.
Captain Thomas Dodd, of Lare
do, took a run up this week to SCI
his daughter, Miss Sallie, who il
stopping at the marble hotel at thu
springs.
| DIR. w. V. Ezell, of Brazoria, il
registered at the Hotel Topo Chico
The Doctor is delighted with thu
scenery in an about Monterey. HI
will visit every place Of interest il
Mexico before returning home.
i DIR. A. S. Younkin, Of Yoakum
is in the city on pleasure bent.
I, Prof. w. G. Brann is billed to de
liver his lecture on "Humbugs" a
the Teatro Progreso Saturda
night.
i Hon. John Woessnur, the Amer
. can consul, and family, Of Saltillt
are on a visit to this city.
There are number of San Antoni
} people registered at the hotel Nor
terey.
Il Many new enterprises inaugI
} | rated since the first of October. Wi
: note some of them in my next.
Q EDMOND.
J, Every mother should kno'
:, that Group can be prevented. TIL