El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-03

passengers in the first class car,
eight in the second class car, aud ten
in the third class car and all tbs cars
went over. Bit every body exceot the
three me' oned esctpe1 injury"
When a-ked what caused the baggage
ca to jump the tr .ck. Mr.. KILLER said
that that was q mystery 1T mys.ified
men were sill maki-g gue.ses ct the
pos-io cause of accident, but none Of
them we're able TO .tate positiv. ly. 1t
was q very lucky wreck and the in
red have good r Jason to thank kind
Provid -nce for their escape."
"Ynu see that engine" said . T
P. official. printing to q T. p. freight
eng ne. swell, that is q Baldwin
make Of the 1889 style, and in hat
year she was considered one of the
best ngines made. She has an 1S-incb
cylind r and WAS manufactured for 9
t1n" country Is con
engines manufactured at the presen,
time and y u will get an idea of the
Improvement made in recent years on
railroad engines. The 1889 make IL
almost worthless for the present time.
They are too light in every respect
and the T. P. will not be bothered
with them much longer"
The general manager OF the
-- railway has gwen orders to all
his agents and Ope rstors to give de-
tails Of all accidents on that line to
newspaper reDresen,a 'ives without any
hesitation. He wisely says that it l.
much better for r,porter to be told
the facts than to allow him to eueee
at them. and this ia certainly true, "a
q rumor ''swells "a it rolls," and when
a reporter must depend upon rumor I,
is generally his LUCY to catch it when
it has stopped rolling. The man
ager OF the has taken q lead
which would be wise for all others
railroad officials to follow.
The Albuquerque Citizen says that
I" a ssistsnt Dispa cher Waddell, of the
Mexican Ce ntral. in Jusrez, drew S66 {.
lottery" When shown the article
this morning Mr.. Waddell grew pale
a staggered, but feeling the i'm
portance of the occasion r. gainei him
self ar said: Tell the Citizen to
trint some mora about It, as 1t IL po-
-itively news 10 me-" Mr.. Waddell lie
with the Sierra Madre company and
not with the Mexican Central.
1t is not generally known that the
Mexican Central has the fastest eched-
ule time In the southw st. % some
divisions between Ell Paso and tn
>ity Of Mexico the passe train will
m IKE from 40 to 43 miles per hour. in
cludtng stops, which. by the way, are
tween Ell Paso and chihuahua, . dis
lance OF 225 miles, IL seven hours and
five minutes.
General Passenger Agent Turner OF
the Texas & Pacific has just returned
hi - vi
in the interest of his road; wbile
there he arranged for q ne CITY tick ct
Office on Spring ST. eet in Los Angeles
A beautiful office has also recently
been ope ne in the Kimball house,
Atlanta, Ca, only . few steps from
the union depot.
A union meetioR of the Broth erhood
of Locomotive Engineers. Brother
hood of Loo motive Firemep, Order
OF Railroad Cor ductors, brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen, and Orjer OF
Railway TeleRraphers, will DO held in
Phi ade'phia next Monday. Address,
es will be delivered BY the chiefs of
the various orders.
J. B. LIE Compile aud wife of Torres.
Sonora, Mexico, arrived In Jusrsz yes
ter6sy. Mr.. LIE Compile has accepted
q clerkship In the aud tors Office Of the
Is IL, .. M q r., made vacant by the
resig nation of G. T. Carson, who join
ad thu 23rd regiment and left for the
Philippine islands.
On Saturday last q train load OF
sheep On the s anita Fe was wrecked in
he yard at Bsrs'ow, i've cars of The
,Oor creatures being sent down an en-
such an acciden. could occur in q yard
i. puzzling TO railroad men.-Williams
News.
Engineer Kirk wss knocked out of
his regular passenger trip south yes.