El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-06

The receivers of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad have spent 81 900, 600 dur
ing the twelve months they have had
charge of the road in improving the
system, repairing track and buying new
locomotives.
The regular fast freight on the South
ern Pacific leaves Deming every day at
: 40 p. NJ, reaching Ell Paso about mid
night. This saves laying over all n ght
in Deming or Riucon for pas -engers ar
irving from Silver City on the morning
train.
Within the next month there will be
turned out of the Santa F'e shops n To-
peka. two of the heavie-t locomotives
ever built in the United States. The
engines are of the consol dated pattern,
and are being built especially for SER
vice on the mountain division of the
Santa Fe in New Mexico and Colora-
do.
The Mexican Central is expanding
large amounts of money in building
receptacles for water for their engines
at different points along the line and is
preparing TO replace part of the line
south of lula to the extent of ,, 900 tons
of new and heavier steel rails weighing
sixty-six pounds to the yard.
No. S21, the mixed passenger and
fire ght train, on the Silver City branch
was wrecked just at the outskirts of
Silver City Tuesday morning, seven
freight cars loaded with iron ore going
down the steep embankment, just be-
low the rock quarry. The engine and
passenger coaches remained on the
track, and none of the crew or passen-
gers were injured. The traffic was de-
layed several hours by the accident.
Hon j. A. Mahoney, of Deming, was .
passenger on the train and made q
sprinting record for him=elf by getting
out Of the rear door, when he discover
ed the cars rolling down the embank
ment. The freight cars were totally
stroyed.-Headligh
The pending change in ownership Of
the Sonora railway is arousing no lit
tie comment at Guaymas, and it is
thought it will greatly benefit the
town. Among the possibilities cor
sidered is the calling at Guaymas of
Pacific Mail steamers from Panama
and the diversion to this route Of the
coffee traffic from the lower Mexican
and Central American coast to the east.
Other changes in traffic are discussed,
and they will all benefit Sonora and its
cities.
The Mexican Central pay car was
wrecked near Guadalupe, south of Ia
catecas, recently. Some miscreants
placed stones on the tracks which were
not seen in time by the train men to
avert the accident. Edward Russell,
the engineer, succeeded in checking
up considerably. however, thereby
avoiding the complete destruction of
the train aud the loss of life.
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT
Another dastardly and successful
attempt at train wrecking was per-
petrated shortly after midday on Thurs
day on the Tampico branch of the Cen
trail railway. The rails were spiked at
a joint around a sharp curve. and the
result was that the passenger train
which left San Luis PotOsi bound for
the gulf port left the rails upon reach
iDg'the curve and turned completely
over. kid" Carver, the engineer, was
caught between his engine aud the
ground and although alive when extri-
Gated from that horrible position sue
cum bed in great agony later.
The fireman, a man named Nimmer
man, met death outright; Hernandez,
the wood-passer, was seriously hurt,
trainmaster of the Central, also suffer-
ed serious injuries. The division pri-
vate car of Colgate Hoyt, vice-presi-
dent of the VI. r. & T. railway, was at
tached to the derailed train, causing
Mr.. Hoyt's wife some injuries fortu-
nately of no consequence. Government
Inspector Francisco del Villar thinks
train wreckers were discharged
on the corporation.