El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-06
THE Ell pASO DIVISION
Record Bulletins For November
Show Many Credits .GiVen-ln-
stances OF Discipline.

Record Bulletins For NOVembe
Show Many Credits .6iven-In
stances OF Discipline.
The record bulletins on the G.. H. E
Paso division for Novembnr are inter
essing for their references to accident
aud incidents which have occurred
near this city.
This probably refers to the recen
accident near Feeley's Tank.
a freight train was standing on
curvs. at a water tank at $50 p. N. ane
IVES run into by another train follow
Ing, resulting in the total destruction
OF the caboose aoc considerable dam
age to the engine. The rear brake
mao, ~hese duty 1t was TO project T.
rear end, states that he was up near
the head aud making some repairs on
the train, that he fully understOo the
tagging rules, did not consider it ne
cessary to obey them and in fact never
had obeyed them at this particular
water tank during his two years.
service with the company. He has
been discharged from tie service. No
excuse will be taken for violation of
orders.
This happened in the Ell Paso yards:
A switchman Is ssessed ten days for
causing the derailment of an engine
off an open switch. He gave the en-
gineer q signal to come ahead without
looking to see that the switch was
wrong. Switchmen are expected to
watch such matters closely.
Here ia an incident where credit 10
given:
A fireman was taken suddenly sick
on the road, head BRAKEMAN took his
place and fired the engine until anoth-
er fire man could be obtsined-ten days
credits.
Other instances of discipline are
these:
called for running orders over the next
freight division. Operator obtained
the orders which read for an engine of
q different number from the one on the
train. Both conductor aud engineer
signed the order which was completed
by the dispatch er aud after the train
had proceeded some fifty or sixty miles
the engineer discov ed that the en-
CINE he was running was not the one
naDeI In the orders. He notified the
conductor who in turn notified the dis
pat.her who aonulled the orders al
ready issued and sent corrected orders
in their place. Conductor aud en-
ginee are each given q bulletin sus-
pension of sixty days.
A con 1uctor and engineer have been
discharged from the service for pulling
q
the u ain they bad orders to meet or
having their orders changed.
Two brskemen have been discharged
from the service for loa6ng around
SALOONS and other bad conduct.
A brakeman has fifteen days bulletin
suspension entered against him for
causing a derailmens of his engine in a
terminal yard. He red up the switch
for his train and then went off and left
Nhn nd h~d n
il in the meantime and when the road
engine got there, found it wrong.
Brakemen must remain at switch in
terminal yards while it is being used by
their trains, and when leaving 1t finally
they must leave it as found.
A brakeman has ad fifteen days bull
letin suspension entered against bis re-
cord for causing derailment of his
C 4boose by tnrO wing the switch before
IL.
A brakeman has been given thirty |
days bulletin suspension for allowing |
wheels to slide under q part OF the |
train in his charge resulting in a hot /!
and bursted wheel and derailment of
three wheels. Brakeman must rass
over the part of the train in their
charge often enough TO prevent occur
ences of this kind.
A conductor has twenty days bulle-
tin suspension for hauling a loaded car
over 4 division without way bill for
the same.
A conductor and engineer have
each been given thirty days bulletin
suspension for violation of rule
80.
A conductor, falling to get return
Yards from an agent for some cars in
MS TT ain, filed out the cards himself,
> hich is contrary to rules and for
y b ich L e has been givena ten days sus-
aension.
There are some credits which are
given in unusually large numbers this
month, ammounting to more than 200
points.
A switchman has received ten days I
credits for discovering and promptly
'eporting q broken rail that
sould have been dangerous to a passing
rain. Z
a brakeman has been given fifteen !
,redits for firing an engine over part 8
II division when the fireman played ,
rat. II
a cooduct1r and engineer have each !
'ecsiysd ten credits fer saving delay TO ,
heir train by doing some switching at
terminal while the yardmaster was at T
work on q passenger train and could /
los attend to 1t. IL
An engineer discovered broken !
al and promptly reported the same :
o the section foreman so that it could '
,e replaced before the passage of other I
rains ten day credit.
A conductor, two brakemen, en-
,fDeer and fireman have each been
.iyen ten credits for making up their '
rain which was to follow a regular I
Ast train on which the yardmaster was
Engaged at the time thus preventing E
my delay to the extra.
TO SHIP CATTLE BY WEIGHT.