El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-14
Sania Fe inspection Tour.

Sdnld re inspection tOut.
CT Rssseguie, OF Topeka, kan,
ReperAl supe rintendent OF the a. l.
* 8. F., came in this morning In Els
private car With she regular morning
passenger train. he 10 on general
inspection tour OF the road ana VIII GO
oct with this evenings passenger
train
Storm Casualties
The Santa Fe passenger ain which
left Houston Saturday night at 90
wac lifted from the track oy the storm
near Alvin and one woman, Mrs.
Prather. of enbsrg, Tex, vas XIII
ed and several more or less In Jnred-
Al Virginia Point q freight train on
the |. s, G. y. and one on the M Il.
* T. were overturned bJ she Storm
and the cars swept entirely on the
right of way bat the crew oil DOTH
esca ped and they went to work at once
20 rescuIng the people of the TO <u and
recovering bodies They recovered
twenty i've bodies, ten OF whom we're
wcmer.
Funeral OF J. II. Payne.
A telegram has been received from
Tucson which ssstes that the body OF
J.. a. Payne, she 9. p. passenger
brakeman who died In that CITY, will
be brought to this city tonight and
inferred in Evergreen cemetery TO-
morrow morning. He was o mem Der
OF ST.. Clements church and the Bro
therhood of st. Andrew, and Rector
Martin will conduct his funeral at The
church tomorrow at ten o'clock after
which he will be inferred In the Bro
sher hood q lot In Evergreen.
Mr.. Payne spent the holidays in bis
old bone in Liverpool last year and
returned In good cheer over the
pleasant time he had there, but said
that the vacant chair OF his mother
who bad died only a short Nme before |
cast q gloom over the old home. He
said he was sp xious 10 get back TO this |
oountry and as he proceeded at once to
take the necessary steps to become .
citizen OF she Uuited States II Is
supposed that his last visit to the fogRy |
isle decided him in regard to which |
country he wanted to call bis home.
playing In Hard Luck.
Harry Borcherdipg, con of q. @.
Borcherding Of tie city, came no ne
from AlsmoRordo yesterday evening
with part Of the middle finger OF HE
right hand cut OF. he lie machinist |
and has been plying his trade In she
shops OF the E. P. & n. E. at Alamo
Rordo. While 1t work yesterday he got |
his hand caught in the machinery and
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between the first and second joints. Mr..
BRoherding seems to have struck
streak Of hard luck. He has had two
sons at home sick for some time and
has nos been we'll himself for several
weeks.
Mrs. b. c. Borcherdina left yester-
day Al noon for ARuas Calientes to
visit her daughter. Mrs. William
Ikebaum. Mr.. Ikebsum is employed
iu me sampling departments Of the
smelier In that city. Mrs. Borcher-
ding went to take q rest after working
With her click sons for so loog, they
having sufficiently recovered TO allow
her absence. and she was gone when
her other son came home minus a
foyer
They Like Fl paso.
The trip OF AssistantGenerslF reigh.
Agent Bsrnnt ri, OF theiCotton Belt. to
Mexico, from which he was returning
when he was here yesterday. was his
first one 70 that country and he said
that every thing he ss~ bosh In Mex
leo ard western Texas was a re-
violation to him and he was
surprised TO find such foe lot OF
country on this section OF the globe.
BE sAys that the part Of Mexico that he
.aw il wonderful and the republic un-
ioubtedly has q great future before IL.
ae says tie climate of Mexico 10 as
inc - any he WAS ever In and be 10
pleased with the republic generally.
Every member of the party had Q
rood word for Ell Paso and when some
me asked whether they should spend
he one day more which they had at
eisure 10 Mexico or come on 20 Ell
Psso 10 spend IL they we're all empha-
ic in saying that they wanted to spend
{ here Mr.. B8rnhart says he had
10 idea of the wonderful amount