El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-05

| Lpe rOlllDS SCOck OF the Santa Ft
consists of ISL locomotives, 4S2 pas
senger coaches and 25 1853 freight anc
miscellaneous cars.
George Croker is elected director OF
the Southern Pacific to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of his brother, the
late Col. G. F. Croker.
! The Southern Pacific company have
| resumed the work of boring for coal in
the ella Valley above Solomonville
Work Of this kind has been going or
for nearly two years, and although nc
paying bodies have been found, good
| results are expected.
The work of repairing the Santa Fe
trsks near Whitewater, where it has
been washed out so often bv floods, has
been finished. A new track has been
laid for several miles over an entirely
new bed, over which the trains are now
running. The old track will be left
until after the rainy season is over, and
trains will not be delayed unless both
tracks are washed out.
A short line of electric railway from
Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek is
now practically assured. 1t is evident
from the expressions of the members
of the city council that franchise
and water rights will be granted Irwin
Howbert, promoter of the road. The
project, which has met with considera-
BILE opposition from Denver parties, as
well as from the other railroads, is
likely to prove of great value to this
city. The new road will receive its
water supply from Bear Creek, which
supplies this city with water.
The recent heavy storm 10 Connecti-
cut was the most severe test to which
the third-rail system of the New York
New Haven and Hartford road, between
New Britain and Hartford, has yet been
subjected, and the result is more taan
gratifying to the management and to
the electrical department in particular
I he tracks of the third-rail line were
wholly submerged for stretches of sew
eral hundred feet, and in places it is
reported that the water reached the
trucks, and withal the motor cars ap-
peared to experience no difficulty, 9TH
er than from the res stance Of the wa
ter on the submerged rOadbed.
Plans have been perfected for a rail
road to the Grand Canyon of the Colo
RADIO and construction is to begin soon
from point on the Santa Fe Pacific at
Flagstaff or Williams. A tenth of the
million dollars capital stock is already
on hand and the bonds of the line are
being placed in the east. The enter
prise Is backed by LON bard, GOOde q
Co., of Oh cago, aid is under the man
agement of Mayor O'Neill, of Prescott.
The new line will be known as the
Santa Fe and Grand Canyon railroad
and will be y miles in length and will
tap the canyon at the head OF Brigh,
Angel trail. AT that point is proposed
the erection of large hotel.
Santa F'e trainmen vouch for the
statement that Fridays through Cali
fornia train was tagged by section men
two miles this side of Lexington be-
cause the rails of the track had been
curved by the heat into the appearance
of sleigh runners, the heavy spikes
having been pulled from the oak ties
and thrown into the air by the strain of
the bending rails. The accident oc-
Cured but a few minutes before the
train was due to pass, and had not the
section men been at once attracted to
the spot by the noise of the flying
spikes the train would have dashed into
the bresk aud have been hurled from
the track. Passengers on the train
stated that the heat at the point of the
acc dent was terrific. While the re-
pair of the track was going on the oc.
cupanLs OF the train sought wood at
one side of the track and remained
there until the work was completed.
1t was two hours before the track was
IN shape for the train to proceed.