El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-24

the ten years ending December 81
1897, there were killed 423 persons an
injured 1889 persons in such accidents
If only the 25.6 per cent of the casual
ties are attributed to broken wheels
which are liable to cause the mos
serious results, in the last ten years
lOS persons have lost their lives ant
343 have been Injured in accidents dut
to broken wheels The money cos
can only be surmised. The Bradford
accident on the B and NJ railroad, Jan
uary 10, 1888, wrecked an express trair
of seven cars, killing fourteen and in
juring fifty. This was caused by
broken cast iron wheel, as was demon
strated by the investigation of the
railroad commissioners. Since the
publication of their report the rail
roads of New England have virtually
abandoned the use OF cast iron VIII ,els
in passenger service, and the leglsla
ture of Massachusetts has prohibited
the introduction of new equipment
with cast iron wheels upon the rail-
roads of that state. The use OF cast
iron wheels is prohibited by law on the
elevated railroad OF New Iork.-St
Louis Globe Democrat.
| G. II. shop men gave private dance
at Rand's grove last night and {
| thoroughly good time was INDUCED in
Wagonettes were provided to carry
o'clock the orchestra struck up a
waltz and twenty couples took part in
the dancing. 1t was 2:3O this morning
before the crowd concluded that the
"Home. Sweet Home" waltz should
end the festivities. The following
were present: Misses. Hattie Spivy
Lizzie Smith, Fannie Rice, Berths
Ford, Barbara Cochran. Julia Nc
Carthy. Lizzie Mccarthy, Sadie Nor
Pearl Ford, and Sofia Mitchell; Mes
danes Fred Corners, Geo. Stead. J.
Santer, Will Groves, Andrew Shindler.
and Will RAIDER. Messrs. Fred Ste
venson. A. ]. Miller, G. M. Cuuni ng-
ham, w. RAIDER, w. Swesreuger, G 60.
Stead, Fred Corners, l. RAIDER, Bob
Lyons, Arthur Bocherding, Geo: DAILY,
w. B. Morgan, A. S. McKellegan.
Gus Buckler, G. F. Jarvis. Jesse Wood
man, Geo. De Young. o. Smith. Eo.
Knemeier, Jack Graot, E. G. jackson,
Lon Layfeld, and J. c. Mshoney. Fred
Corners acted as floor manager and
proved himself the proper man for the
place.
81 was reading that article in the
HERALD where Mr.. Shelley said in I'D
interview that the class of railroad
brakemen employed now were inferior
to those employed in the days of hand
coupling" said Santa Fe engineer
yesterday. 81 guess I have worked
with all kinds of brakemen manufac-
tured," he continued, land find them
as rule, while on duty, to be forget
full and in q manner unreasonable. L
rememb Der some time ago, right here in
Ell Paso yards, We were doing our own
switching preparatory to leaving for
the north. 1t was a dark, stormy
night and the signal lanterns were be-
ing swung viciously and 1 was doing
ali I could with the en-
CINE to hurry things up. All at once
the signal on my side OF the
train disappeared and asked my fire.
said he could; that the brakeman on
his side was riding car into the sid
ing. Well, all ] could do was to wait.
1 was curious and, in fact, fearful as to
the possible whereabouts of the brake
man and was about to make known my
fears to my fireman when q voice,
equal in sound to the thunder of the
heavens, reached my ears, muttering
words something like this: "Wby in
h-don't you back up. Do you want
a man to swing his arm off?' looked
out and in a second discovered that
the speakers excitement hsd the best
of his judgment and I coolly asked him
how l was to know what he wanted.
Chow are you to know" he shrieked,
"what do carry this glim for?" But
he discovered his lamp was out and
the argument came to an abrupt end
ing. That's it. The lamp went out
and he kept on swinging it just the
same -