El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-06
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Cloudcroft Excursions

Cloudcroft Excursions
Two excursions left Dallas and FL.
Worth last night and one lett Ssn
Antonio for Cloudcroft. These will
likely be the last of the season.
S. p Presidency Gossip.
TIE report comes from New York
that W. II. Truesdale, formerly vice
PRESIDENT of the Rock Island railroad
and now president of the Lackawanna,
will be the successor of Q. P. Hunting
ton as president of the Southern Paci-
&c. BE lie the choice of Speyer & Co.,
the bankers who hold a large amount
of the Southern Pacific stock, and he
will be the man II they can oontrol .ne
election. President NJ. l.. Ingalls, OF
the CHESAPEAKE and OHIO and Big Four
lie also named.
Increased Life Allowance For Brake
men
ssTne danger of railroad brskinr
has been reduced more than one hall
in the asst seven yesrs," said g. II.
brakeman a. the depot this morning.
The new devices for coupling and
braking," be continued, have raised
the average life of q railroad brake
man from seven years TO fourteen
wears and Eve months, an increase Oh
seven wears and five months in seven
years."
Construction to Begin at Once.
A dispatch from Kansas City Gays
that IL has been officially announced
that immediate construction Will be
begun on she Kansas City, Mexico Il
Orient railroad, the Stilwell line, be-
tween Port Still veil and Fuerte, Mex
loo. Within the next few days Civil
Engineer John L. Case will leave Kan
sas City with . party Of twelve and q
corps Of engineers and proceed TO Quay
mas and thence by boat to Stilwell.
They expect to have the new line COM I
pleted within eighteen months The
distance from Port StIlwell TO Fuerte |
IL seventy five miles. Mexican labor
will be used In the construction OF the
road.
New San Ia Fe Equipment.
Between this time and Novem Der
fret I'd e Santa Fee company will ex-
pend q million dollars for new equip
ment. IL will be the heaviest expen-
oiture ever made by the road for that
purpose in q similar period OF time.
Anon the new equipment will be
fourteen dining care, the finest ever
turned out for any, road which Will be
run or Inc SAllIOTul0
trs ne: two com posite care, to be used on
the came trains; twenty pas
senRer engines. built with particular
Ate .tlon to speed and to be used 10
pulliug the limited and overland
through trains; five hundred refriR-
arat " cars which are needed to handle
Me rapidly increasing fruit traffic OF
the road. The dining and compositet
cars will be delivered this month and
nd
Engines IN October and Novem Der. all
deliveries u Dc conn plcted By Novem-
Der 10.
Killed BY Train
William Watson, an engineer OF the
A ner;ceu tramp steamer Michigan,
" rose home was 10 Brooklyn, n. Y
was llied Ia ,he Galveston, Houston *
Nor theru rail- va ds AZ Galveston,
F. icay hight. When his body was
TO I'D oy asei:ching crew IL was cold
nj q hao evidently been passed over by
several trains. They could find no
sign OF his head and As the body ives
terribly mapgled 1t was supposed thai
the head had been ground to pulp, out
long after the body had been remove
and examined by the coroner the ssu e
crew found the head in another part of
town. q mile from the place at which
the body WAS found. The hat was still
CD the head, although IL had been car
ried 8 mile on the trucks of she ca
th at killed him. He leaves q family in
Brooklyn.
Another Bio Damage Suit.
Through bis attorneys J. A. Lackey
yesterday filed suit for SIC, 900 personal
damages against the Mexican Central
railroad company in the United States
district court.
Mr.. Lackey was q fireman on the /
Central last April and while on the
second engine of 9 double header the
fret engine went dead andleaninR ousOt
HE cab window to see what the matter
was hewas struck on the headby q brid-
ue near Soledad, Mexico. Il Is said by /
parties who claim to know that the
engine cab only clears the said bridge
seven inches and that 1t had always
been dangerous, for IL Is often the
duty OF both fireman and engine err 10
ook out of the cab window.
Mr.. Lackey soon after his accident
vas brout ht TO FL Paso and p'aced 10 =
hospital where he remaiLed for SON q
time. When discharged he again went
10 work on the Central, but his mind,
IL - said. at times WAS - hank, ana one
tay while supposed To ne on DUTY he
%. his en- CINE aud did not show up for
several days. His friends have since
taken cars OF him and he no~ prays the
court to grant him the damages asked
'or.
Special Cars For Servants And
Horses.
The last two Mexican government
.ars that passed through this city are
q nd