Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-05-19
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TRACK AND TRAIN.
+. Costello, of Chicago, Is a new day
switchman Ia the Las Vegas yard.
Paxton Woods now has a position as
night call boy for the Atchison here.
No. 2 arrived at 1926, this morning, hav-
ing Keen delayed in the wreck at Fulton.
Relief Agent Arnold arrived at Rincon
to run the Atchison station during Mr..
Coats illness.
Il. II, Smith, of the train dIspatcher's
force at Las Vegas, was in kston and
quite sick with a severe cold.
The rush Of business on this division me-
ce ssitates some of the north.end crews
running between here and Albuquerque.
Sam Mclean, who some weeks ago-hadi
his knee injured in the Ration shops and
came to the Las Vegas hospital, has re-
turned home.
T. A. Hodges, store-keeper for the Atch-
ison at this p int, has returned from a
visit to MIS- little daughter, up at La Junta,
Colo.
Two switch engines are now at work In
the Rincon yards, down the line. Israel
Cook and Dana Mossman occupy the cab
10 the new engine.
Engineer Thomas Bourne returned to
Ration from an. extended visit in Memphis,
Missouri. He was accompanied home by
Miss l. Cunningham, his cousir, and Mrs.
u. A. Bourne, his sister. in law, who will
make a short visit at Ration.
l.. w. Lewis, a contractor of Emporis,
| who recently visited Las Vegas and who
has the contract for furnishing ballast
for the Atchison from Melvern, Kan,
visited the general superintendent's office
at Topeka In reference to his work. MIR.
LIE is has erected q mammoth rock
crusher at M~elvern'and has established a
large camp for the laborers.
Contracts aud claim accounts are pre-
served indefinitely by tina Atehison com.
| pany and number millions. Tickets are
| preserved thirteen months, agents ac-
counts, three years, way bills five years.
| At present,the way bills preserved amount
to the numter of 100000 Each Office il
supplied with numerous record cases,and a
large basement in Topeka Is filed with the
| surplus from the offices.
1t is probable that a meeting of the wes.-
| ern passenger association will be called in
the near future to consider the question of
transportation Of bicycles. The majority
II the western roads daGlare theiA selves
| opposed to the free transportation of The
/ wheels, but there are two or three of the
smaller roads that are in favor of it, and
| they will have the matter brought before
the general meeting OF the western pas
senger association, TO be held after the rs-
turn of Chairman Caldwell, from Cali
fornia. Z
The grievance committee Of the brother.
hood of locomotive engineers threatens to
tie up the Missouri, Kansas 81 Texas rail-
way, unless Engineer Will Lsanam of Dem
ison, Tex, who was discharged owing to
an accident, is re- instated. The case was
laid Lefore the brotherhood of locomotive
engineers and fully investigated. The
brotherhood announced that Tiers was no
evidence against Engineer Lanam that
would warrant his dismissal from the SER
vice of the company. A committee Of the
brotherhood went to st. Louis and laid the
case before the Missouri, Kansas g. Texas
officials. After the conference, the COM
pany refused to ~re-instate Lanam.
WRECK AT FULTON.
A wreck occurred, this morning, on the
first side track east of Fulton, eighteen
miles this side of Glorieta. Two extra
freig hts we're westward bound and ran in
on the side track to allow No. 9, the east
bound passenger, to rass. The second
stc'ion Of the freight did not clear aud
Conductor Upton Hays sent his brakeman
to flag the passenger train. L Their ne did
not properly do his duty, or the engineer
did not see him, and No. 9 crashed into the
freight, derailing four cars on the freight
and doing soma damage to the head en-
CINE OF the passenger train. The wreck
ing train from this city was sent for and in
about seven hours the track was clear.
The accidents was a fortunate affair in that
no one on either train sustained any in.
i~uries.