El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-21
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moment Senior Alcocer stuck the spade
In the ground six mules team started
pillow and the work of constructing
| the road bed was commenced.
A Traveller and Valuable Grip.
Shortly after the Southern Pacific
train came in last night Harry Turner
received telephone message that q
| man and woman we're held up at the
Quarantine station west of town and
| that they would be allowed to 60 across
| the river If taken at once. Harry,
always accommodating, at once call
ed double rig and went out to the
station after them.
They had all kinds of telescopes and
grips and when they started for Jua
| rez Harry was In the front seat with
| about q half q dozen telescopes piled
arouL him, while the couple were in
the back seat with several grips in
their laps, and around their feet.
They soon arrived at the hotel
exclaimed, "My God, we have lost
that grip" The young lady began to
cry. and when Harry tried to argue
With them that they might have left il
at the quarantine station, they said,
"No," that 1t had been lost on the
way.
They wanted to 60 b ack after it but
Harry told him that he could not get
across the river again but that he
would come over and send some one
out to look for it. He at once came
over to this size and employed two
Mexicans and furnished them with
gas lamps and told them to go IS fast
as they could to the quarantine stat on
and to look sharp all along she way.
They returned at about midnight
with the grip and 1t was turned over
IN n I'M
The grip proved to contain several
watches, Q lot of jewelry, deeds, and |
claims to some valuable mines.
The man In the case asked that his |
name be not given but he ia a promin |
emit man of San Francisco and was on |
his way to the City of Mexico to visit
friends and relatives and was carrying |
them some presents.
When the grip was returned to him |
this morning he could not thank Harry |
enough for what he had done for him. |
and rewarded the Mexicans handsome
ly. He told Harry that he would never |
forget the kind treatmens that he ad |
received from him In his trouble.
A Brakemdn's Presence of Mind.
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat pub
fishes good story as told by passen-
ger on the Illinois Central train that |
was held up at May field creek, Ballard |
county, Kentucky on the 11th inst, a
short account of which appeared in the |
HERALD of that date.
The main line train met the Memphis |
train at Fulton and the two trains were
changed some and made up into q Chi
cago train and a st Louis train, travel
ing from Fulton ON the same line, the |
St Louis train following a short dis
lance behind the Chicago train. This |
condition of affairs at the time of the
held-up would have been the cause of q
disastrous rear-end collision but for
the thoughtfulness, bravery and pres
ence of mind of a brakeman on the
Chicago train.
Jerome Hill, Memphis cotton mag
nate. who was on the St Louis train,
told the story of the wreck and the
brakeman's heroic act to d Globe
Dem ocrat man at the Southern hotel
in ST. Louis the next day.
The following ia the Interesting part
of Mr.. Hills story:
'The robbers had taken charge of
the engine of the Chicago train, I'M
coupled the express car and pulled out,
leaving the balance of the train standing
On the track. They took the express
Gar about . mile up the track, blew the
,afe, looted the car and then escaped,
eaving the engine and car standing
IN the track. Our train pushed the
Chicago train up to where the engine
had been left by the robbers, and We
I'll moved along then as though nothing
'ut of the ordinary had happened.
II was impressed with the manner in
which the train employees conducted
themselves. They are certainly model
abroad men. The nerve and though
ulness OF the brakeman on the Chica-
would have been . terrible casas-
rophe. Our train was following close
lpon the train that the robbers held
lp. When the brakeman realized
What was going on he started to run
pack to signal our train and prevent
collision.
"He was ordered by the robbers to
lines, when he dropped alongside the
rack as if wounded. The ruse worked,
or the robbers left him in time to
Illow him to get far enough back to
top the ST. Louis section before it
plunged into the rear of the Chicago
rain. The engineer told me that the
obbers boarded the engine and cover
d him with their revolvers before he
ould defend himself. He begged to
's allowed to signal the fast approach
ng St Louis Express, but was refused.
The fireman attem pied to blow the
whistle while the robbers were arguing
With the engineer and was frightfully
,eaten with the butt enGs of revolvers.
lone OF the passengers on either
rain was molested."
Mr.. Hill also said that be went for
yard to the Chicago train as soon as he
ould and found the passengers were
lnmolested and exceedingly cool con-
1aertng the circumstances, there being
lot the least resemblance of q panic.
Z. D. Emanuel, of Huntington, In
LANA, who was on the ST. Louis train
aid that the passengers enjoyed g
vOod lRuoh vhen after tho ,ohbars