The herald., 1898-07-12
NEWS OF TIE RAILWAYS
ANOTHER DEATH CAUSED BY
COLORADO DESERT HEAT
No Discrimination Admitted by the
Southern Pacific on Fresno
Freight-Notes

The Fresno papers are complaining that
the Southern Pacific does not expedite
freight from this city to that point as 1t
does from San Francisco. From the lat
ten place Fresno merchants can count
on receiving their orders in twenty-four
hours from shipment, while from Los An
geles it requires about two days, and some
times longer. The trouble, as explained by
the Southern Pacific officials here, is that
while Fresno is about midway in miles be-
tween this city and San Francisco, it is
necessarily longer in point of time, on &C
count of the high grades between here and
there. From San Francisco to Fresno
there Is practically no grade of consequence
to overcome while from here there is a
mountain to get over. Frank Oakley of
the general office said that the company
had no disposition to discriminate against
this city, and would do their best to expe-
dite freight from here. but in the physical
condition of things it was not possible to
haul freight up hill as rapidly as it could be
pulled along on level.
Those San Diego Steamships
Santa Fe Agent Stewart, of the City of
Grief, Is theauthority for the statement
that director of the company which it is
said proposes to put on line Of steamers
between San Diego and the orient will be
in that city in few days from the east,
and then it is expected that something more
than unfathered report will be made public
about the line. 1t is unfortunate, however,
that little is known about this Mr.. Young.
who is the director in question. tits not
known, for instance. whether he is an Of
nf nd ri h
to act, or whether he is simply an inter-
ested stakeholder on visit of inspection.
Death From Desert Heat
The second death from heat prostration
on the Colorado desert occurred yesterday
morning at Mammoth Tank on the line of
the Southern Pacific. The victim was
Foreman Hogan Of section gang of work.
men. Hogan had been to Yuma and re-
turned to- his work yesterday morning
The heat was something frightful, away up
above the hundred mark, and he was soon
Frustrated, and died later in great agony
This, is the second fatality from the same
cause in the past ten days The railway
officials say that never in the history of
The line has there been so much complaint
about the heat and so many prostrations and
deaths.
Attempted Wreck
The early morning special train that is run
by the Santa Fee to San Diego from this
city on Sundays narrowly escaped being
wrecked by some miscreants, when near
Encinitas. The engineer was making
good speed as he rounded a curve just
south Of the station named when he saw six
railway ties piled on the track, but for
tunately at such a distance that he had
plenty of time in which to stop his machine.
The ties were so arranged that IL the en-
CINE had struck them there would have been
a wreck beyond any doubt. No clue 10
the persons who committed the crime could
be found, nor Is any reason known for such
action.
Notes and Personals
G. w. Lupton, the Santa Fe agent at
Redondo, was in the city yesterday. con-
ferring with General Passenger Agent
Byrne as to attractions TO offer visitors
to that resort.
The steamer Salvador is expected from
the north at San Diego soon with materials
for the improvements of the railway COM
pany's wharf at that place.
Gus Mathews, the brakeman of the Santa
Fe San Jacinto train, was brought to this
city yesterday for treatment for a bad
case of blood poisoning from which he is
suffering. He thinks he was inoculated
with the virus from the wounds of horse
he had, which was injured by running into
a barbed wire fence, and in caring for the
animal he probably got some of the poison
from its injuries into a cut he had on his
hand, which has swollen in ain alarming
and an eruption has spread all
over his arm.