Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-01-24
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DR.. Wroih, surgeon for the Santa Fe at
Albuquerque, passed through for hIs home,
returning from Topeka.
Report hero has II that the johnson
tunnel has again fallen Ia, killing John
Donier and four employees.
Conductor Ell. Crisman had a small fire
at his house, but Il was extinguished with
out calling In the IRE boys.
1t Is understood that the Santa Fe com
pany will extend It's Lake Valley branch
to Hillsboro,when the U. g.. court is located
there.
j. w. Mccoach, station agent at Sterling,
Kansas, and W. W. Arnold agent at San
Marcial, have exchanged positions, at the
request OF tho former.
Fireman Jim Roby, of Silver City, and
Fireman John Snyder, of Rincon, were in
San Marcial, undergoing time card exam
nations before Trainmaster Aver and
Chief Dispatcher Newcomer.
Within the next few months, the Santa
Fe company will have a double track, ex-
tending from Emporia to Florence, a dis
lance of forty five miles. 1t will be the
longest stretch OF double track on the
Santa Fo system.
-Four patients arrived on No. IT and won't
out to tho hospital. One was carried on a
stretcher, from train to train; one was
borne OF two men. and the other two
managed to walk from one side of tho
depot to the other.
Conductor j.. A. Murray and Richard
Hays have returned from Topeka, but will
probably 60 back there about the 31st.
They are witnesses for the company in a
suit for damages, brought by a man whose
wife fell in the train and broke her leg.
The Pullman company proposes to clean
all It's cars at st. Louis hereafter by COM
pressed air, having determined, by expert
ment, that it Is better and more economi.
cal, in every way, than the present system
of beating the dust out of upholstery, car
pots and curtains, and using water aud
chamois on wool work.
One Of the largest items OF expense for
the Santa Fe, the past year, has been that
Of new steel rails. And now comes an
other order for $4,000 tons more Of steel
rails, the Illinois steel company to Turkish
60, COO and the Colorado fuel and iron COM
pany, at Pueblo, 10000 tons. After it's
physical improvements are completed, it is
expected that operating expenses will be
reduced 10 per cent.
t. A. Lawes, formerly with the Big Four,
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on the Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois, has sent
out a description of the new 12-wheelers
bought for thai road. The total weight OF
the engine is 172 0)o pounds; the cylinders
are twenty n inches In diameter by
twenty-s six inches stroke, and the driving
wheels are fifty -four inches in diameter;
the boiler is sixty four inches in diameter
at the front end Of the waist, aud designed
to carry a working pressure Of 200 pounds.
HALLWAY
According to President &c. P. Ripley, OF
the Santa, Fe, who quotes from advance
sheets of the interstate commerce commits
sion report, for 1896, there were 181 pas
sengers killed by the railways Of the
United States, during that year. The
number OF passengers carried during the
same time was nearly 5t2, 900, COO, or near
~ 5000, 900 carried in safety for avery one
killed. Ha
The employees killed numbered 1881, OF
about one for every 100 miles of road oper-
ated. This is the general average; but
With the Santa Fe, the casualties numbered
abodt one death Tor every 1S7, miles of line
operated. g.
or those killed by railroads, who were
neither employees nor passengers. the
number aggregated, last year, 4,4o6. These
we're either killed at stations, OF crossings
while walking on tho tracks, or while
stealing rides. The latter, embracing the
army of tramps, were largely in the
majority. The showing Is greatly to the
credit OF the railways.