El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-14
FIREMAN INJURED.

came in Yesterday morning crippled.
In an accident on the road he had the
calf of one of his legs considerably
bruised and cut. However he was not
so badly hurt but what he could walk
home. DIR. Justice, the company sur
geon, was called and attended to the
iuiury. II is expected that he VIII
soon be able to return to work
WABASH RAILROADER DEAD.
William Williamson. aged SO. died
on North Stanton street this afternoon
at l O'Clock. He had been freight
clerk for the Wabash railroad at De-
troit. Mich. for twelve years, until
about six weeks ago when he came
10 Albuquerque for the benefit OF his
health. He then came to FL Paso about
two weeks ago. The deceaseds Droth-
er. A. Williamson, arrived "Wednesday
from Lindsay. Ontario, where ne is
a salesman in q clothing store, and
will leave for that city with his broth
er's body on the Santa Fe tonight.
MORGAN JONES INTERVIEWED"
Since Morgan Jones has again APP
peared in this section accompanied by
prominent railroad and coal mining
men. his name is being connected with
another railroad in which Ell PaSo is
greatly interested.
Mr. Jones is almost sole owner of
a railroad in Texas that is pointing
this way and is considerably interest
ed in another that is coming here.
He owns the Wichita Valley railroad
that runs from Wichita alley to Sey-
more in the direction of Roswell, and
is one of the heavy stockholders in the
Pecos Valley road, that recently secur-
ed q charter to build to Ell Paso.
Jones is interested in this section,
said prominent railroader this morn
ing, land has had his eye on this city
for some time 1t is said that he is in
terested with Stilwell now that Gates
has won out over him and will take a
hand in building the Orient line.
StilwelI could not get better man
than Jones for he has been one of the
most successful railroaders in the coun-
try He may have scheme OF his
own on. though. for he is now in a po-
sition to do something since he is an
influential director in the Pecos Val
ley"
It is believed that Mr.. Jones has gone
10 Mexico TO show me country to two
of the stockholders and to make re-
port on the scheme to the directors.
He has made several trips to Mexico
and knows the country like book.
The Pecos Valley is owned principal
" by Colorado and Texas men, all OF
whom know something of the immense
undeveloped wealth of the western
coast and it is believed that they are
trying 10 get line into that country
FELL FROM HIS ENGINE.
Fred Hobein. a G. H. & S. A. pass
enger engineer. fen from his engine
about two miles east of Alpine this
morning about o'clock and received
serious injuries
Hobein went out on the running
board az the side OF the engine either
70 blow out the engine or fix some
thing wrong and lost his balance and
fell. The fireman. George Majors,
knew that the engineer went out on the
engine but as this was no unusual
thing for engineers to do, he did not
think anything about it until the train
was approaching Alpine when he
thought the engineer should return to
the cab He made an investigation
and found that the engineer was miss
ing.
Majors stopped the engine and re-
ported the matter to the crew The
train was backed and the conductor
and brakeman made a search. Nearly
TWO miles DdCh lOuHu Ihc
eer standing up at the side of track
trying to walk. He was placed on the
train and made as comfortable as pos
sible and me fireman ran the train
TO Valentine. the end of the division,
where it was turned over to the en-
gineer who would have relieved Hobein
anyway.
Engineer Hobein was brought on to
FL Paso and taken to st. Luke'S hoSpi-
tai. He is badly bruised about the
hips and his back is sprained. He
may be seriously injured internally.A
passenger on the train who talked with
the injured engineer said that he told
him that when he fell he rolled and
rolled until it Seemed he never would
quit rolling. Then he got up and tried
to walk but his hips hurt him SO badly
ne could only take little short steps
All that time the pain was not nearly
so great as later when the injuries
to get sore and he suffered
greatly tn eremainder of the trip. 1t is
hoped that he is not injured internally
and that his bruises will soon heal up.
The train was already two hours
late having waited to make connec-
tions with another train, and the acct
dent TO the engineer delayed it about
two hours more. 1t arrived here about
u O'Clock.
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE.
Frank Vernon, a t G P, fireman.
is taking a few days rest.