Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-12

Tho family of Engineer Boyd are report.
cd sick. III.
M~achinist. Arthur Lewis IL sick, today,
and or duty.
Engineer Ben sulicr and family ara on
the sick list.
Engine s2S win have repairs completed
today, and return TO Ration at once.
Engineer Kirk has been assigned To ex-
ira passenger engine 435 for regular duty.
Engineer Mills, OF Ration, has left the
service Of the company to 60 to Klondiks.
Tom q. Evsns, fireman on 9i5, Is again
on the streets after an illness Of some days.
Conductor Dell GatcheIl is on the sick
list, and Jerry Quinn Is running In his
place.
Engineer Eamss, who has been sick and
off duty for nearly . month, has reported
for work.
Fireman Evans, who has been quite sick,
Is much better and expects to report for
duty very soon.
Train No. 2. which came through the
tunnel, passed through here at 8 a. M,
about an hour late.
Engine 912 broke down at GalIsteo, and
gave up the train. The trouble was with
the main driving box.
j.. N. Bach, section foreman ut Rowe. Is
in the city, on a visit to his father, fore
man on the springs branch.
Machinist Fred Jarvis had the mister
tune to pinch a finger very badly yester-
day and is on the of duty list today IS the,
result. .,dt .rra \ tN-
A train Of empty coaches that had car
ried = Raymond g. Whitcomb excursion
party to California, dead headed back
through here, this morning. BIZ.
Fireman Pelter, who came here from
Newton. Kansas, has left the employ Of
the company and gone to Texas, where he
expects to secures good position.
Two more Dickson engines, OF the latest
model, have just been receised by. the
company at Ration for service on passenger
work between Las Vegas and La Juntn.
Engine Oil, which has had new cylinders,
put In at the Ration shops. will be put In
service here in a day or two, Engineer
LawEss and Fireman Garvip have been
assigned to her for permanent duty,
Record Bulletin No. 1ll.-Repently an
engine was derailed OF this division on &C.
count Of brakeman, who, was plotting the
engine, not inspecting switches. This
brakeman lined up the switches. Ia going
to the round house for engine, but did not
line them up coming OUT He has sbeen
suspended ten days. j. E. Hurley, Supt.
Record Bulletin, No. 26.-Rscently al
passenger train was delayed twenty
minutes at a terminal point ON this divi- |
sion, on account Of the engine. crew not
being called. After investigating the case
il was found that the. caller went to sleep, |
and did not call the, crew, and that the
hostier had also been asleep, and did not
see thatsthe caller got around to call the
crew IN time for the train. Caller has
been discharged and the hostlsr suspended
thirty days. G. M. TAYLOR, d. M. NJ
Record Bulletin, No. GA fireman on
this division, after being called to 60 out;
went to sleep again and delayed the train,
for which he was called, about .twsnty
minutes. This fireman has been sus-
pended thirty days. $780,
G. nj. TAYLOR, D. M. NJ.
Record Bulletin ITO, Recently a Pull.
car had q pair Of trucks deraiied ION
siding, caused BY brakeman who was
handling derail switch pulling pin ont OF
switch after the forward trucks of the
sleeper had passed over the switch and be-
fore the rear pair had. The ground was
frozen hard, much snow on the ground,
and this caused deraiiment Of One rair OF
trucks. Brakeman was new in the service,
previous services satisfactory, and he has
been suspended FOR that day. The careful
handling Of switchs Is a very important
matter.--Jf e. Hurley. Supt.
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