El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-13
7 INK AND PIN.
ASK WILL ABOUT IT.

ASK WILL ABOUT IT
Will Jackson played trick on the
boys Will is a fireman on the IT, H.
and returned yesterday from Valentine
where he said he had been on visit
TO relatives. Now it has leaked out,
or at least the boys say it has, that
Will got married while he was at Al
pine to a young woman of that place
He has returned to work and VIII
bring his wife here they say, to make
their home in the near future. Link
and Pin" will not vouch for this being
a fact. for the G. II. boys are great
fellows TO tell jokes on their fellow
workmen. Ask VIII about it.
WRECK ON THE SANTA FEE.
4 flash bulletin went over the rail
road wires here this morning to the
effect that two passenger trains on the
Santa Fe collided near Albuquerque
early this morning, but no particulars
could be learned
The Santa Fe wires are out OF order
between here and Albuquerque and the
local officials have heard nothing but
a rumor of the accident.
The Herald wired its correspondent
at Albuquerque for an account of the
wreck but nothing was received owing
to the bad condition of the wires No
one was killed. so far as can be learned
here.
1t is understood that the operator
failed to deliver the train orders.
FREIGHT WRECK ON TEXAS AND
PACIFIC.
The Texas & Pacific passeiger train
that was due in Ell Paso at O'Clock
last night, came in fourteen hours late
this morning
The delay was caused by serious
head-end collision of freight trains at
a little station this side of Weather
ford Tuesday night
Il appears that the engineer on the
train got orders to pass freight at
certain siding When ne got there a
freight was standing on the siding
and he thought it was the one he was
ordered to meet. He passed at full
speed and a few miles further run into
the train Both engines were over
turned and several cars were ditched
on both trains but fortunately the en-
gineers and firemen were not hurt.
The debris was piled along the track
for some distance and the track was
cleared for fourteen hours.
MULE DERAILED TRAIN.
Down on the Cotton Belt near Cor
sicana for several days sportive mule
caused much uneasineSS with the en-
gineers and firemen of the road by
showing an inclination to have fun
with the engine. The mule would run
across the track in front of the en-
CINE and kick back at it and then turn
around and look at the engineer with
a smile a yard long. He had probably
heard of his ancestor who stopped a
Texas railway train and kicked it off
the track But the mule played the
trick once too many. He undertook
to run across the tracks at a Y and
there were too many for him. He cal
culated on the train taking a track
which il did not take and caught Mr..
Mule on another. The mule was killed
but II had its revenge. His body de-
rallied the train. The front wheels
of the engine took one track and the
hind wheels another. The tender and
one baggage car rolled down the en-
bankment. Nobody was injured but the
track was badly torn up.
WHITE OAKS ROAD CHANGES
HANDS.
The incorporation papers of the Ell
Paso and Rock Island railroad were
filed with the territorial secretary of
New Mexico Tuesday, as told in the
Herald dispatches.
This road is the extension of the
White Oaks road from a point near
Carizozo in Lincoln county to a point
on the Pecos river near Santa Rosa in
Guadalupe county.
The directors of the new extension
are Clarence d. Simpson, and Thomas
H Watkins, of Scranton, Pa, Charles
B. Eddy, A. 5. Greig, and w. A Haw-
kins, of Alamogordo, and ]. Howard
Ford and Benjamin S. Harmon, of New
York
The company is capitalized at $780,
600 1t is understood that work on the
extension will be begun as soon as ma
terial can be put on the ground which
will be some time this winter. At
Santa Rosa the line will connect with
the Chicago. Rock Island e Mexico,
which is one link in the Rock Island
road now building to the Pacific coast
through Ell Paso.
1t is still believed by many that
nothing more will be heard of the
White Oaks railroad when the Rock
Island conencts with it but the entire
system will fall into the hands of the
Rock Island and become one big sys-
TEN.
Chicago the purpose was to build to
the Pacific coast. and as stated in the
Herald some time ago. plan are now
on fot to finish the work.
FACED DEATH FOR DUTY.
"One OF the most remarkable cases
of faithfulness to duty that ever saw
or heard about happened on the Santa
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