El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-08
SUPERINTENDENT PLACE DEAD.

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SUPERINTENDENT PLACE DEAD
r r Place. superintendent of tele-
praph of the T & p. died at his home
in Dallas yesterday. He had been with
the T. & p for about fifteen years
He had been in bad health for some
time and had recently taken a trip for
the benefit of his health but findlng
that he could get no relief he returned
home to die. His death has caused
universal grief in railroad and teie-
graph circles of the southwest
BUNS IN ORANGE CARS.
A long train of oranges pulled into
the G.. H. yards early this morning. A
man passing by saw a shaggy head ap-
pear on top of one of the cars and he
watched to see what would follow A
body followed that head, body cloth
ed in underwear. which slowly emerg-
ed fro mthe hatchway and proceeded
TO put on outer garments. This was
followed by four more in the same
manner Five big husky tramps then
climbed down from the car and separ-
ated each taking a section of the city
to work for back-door handouts. When
asked if he thought the tramps had
removed their clothing to sleep the
man who saw them said, No, not on
your life would tramp pull off his
clothes to sleep. They had eaten SO
many oranges and got so fat that they
had to take off their clothes before
they could crawl through the hole"
REMARKABLE FORTITUDE.
we'll dressed young man. who had
by misfortune run out of means in the
far west, was trying to get back to
his eastern home by beating his way
on passenger trains when he happened
to a serious accident west of Seligman.
Ariz., on the Santa Fe.
He had mounted the tender and was
stepping from 1t to the baggage car,
in order to ride on the blind, when
his foot slipped and he fell between
the tender and baggage car, but to
one side of the track. He failed to
get one of his legs out of the way
and the baggage car cut it off just
above the ankle. When the man was
freed by the cutting off of his foot he
rolled down the embankment- He got
up, climbed back up the embankment
and signaled the engineer of the sec
ond section of the train to stop. The
train was one of those Santa Fe pas
senger trains that travel in two and
three sections. The engineer saw his
signal and slowed down sufficiently for
the brakeman to jump off and he did
SO. The brakeman then signaled the
third section of the train to stop and
he and the crippled man boarded it.
He was taken to Seligman and his
wound attended to. The surgeon said
the young mans fortitude was remark
able. as he would take no anesthetic
and had to be forced to take liquor
as stimulant-
G. p a PARKS GOLDBRICKED.
General Passenger Agent Parks of
the Southern Pacific hac been gold
bricked. He has much cause for wor-
~ and grief That dirty lot of new
subjects of Uncle Sans that passed
through here Thursday is the cause of
il all
Mr.. Parks contracted to transport
ninety Porto Ricans from New Or
leans to San Francisco Since the par
ty boarded his cars at New Orleans
they have recruited so extensively by
births that the immigration agent
wired him for another car and of
course Mr. Parks isn't the man to
turn a lot of newly-born babes out in
the cold and so he sent it Immediately
Still he doesn't take well to being bum
coed in such a manner as that.
In addition to the increase in the
number of the passengers and the con-
sequent addition of another extra car
the case has caused Mr.. Parks ad-
ditional duty and much worry in TAX
ing extra precautions for the health
and comfort of the passengers. These
duties are weighing heavily upon Mr..
Parks and he wears a care worn look
and an anxious air.
AS the train bearing the Porto Rio
ans will be several days on the road
yet there is no telling what increase
in this unlocked for contingency may
occur before these propagative people
arrive at San Francisco and get out
from under Mr.. Parks Jurisdiction and
care. Still 1another car may have to
be added to the train before the 18th
inst. the day when they are to arrive !
i'm San Francisco.
TROUBLE ON THE MEXICAN CEN !
TRIAL.
The Mexican Central railroad is in
a deal of trouble these days.
Four big freight wrecks have occur !
red on the main line since the disaster |
at JimulcO and in every case consider
able damage was done.
No detailed particulars can be OBJ |
tanned as the officials of the company
prefer to keep these things from the /
public. 1t is learned from parties ar
irving from Mexico this morning. how
ever, that a big wreck occurred near
a few days ago and
the engineer was killed instantly and
several others injured. A number of
cars were thrown from the track and
demolished
At a point about 100 miles from
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