El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-19
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Paying Off.

Paying Off.
Williams Jennings McDonagh, pay
master of the e. P. and N. r.. wac
down last night paying OF at this Gnu
of the line.
President Eddy Back.
President Eddy, of the E. T. q N. ~
returned last night from trip up tne
road where he has been attending 10
business for the past few days.
Looking After Stock.
Il. s. Van Slyck, travelling freight
agent of the Santa Fe road, returned
this morning from q short trip over the
Southern Pacific, looking after the live
stock business for his road.
DOWN From Alamogordo.
W. A. Hawkins, attorney for the E
P. and N. E., came down from Alamo
Rordo last night for q few days visit and
Incidentally to look after the interest OF
HE road.
An Old Timer.
E. K. Morgan, superintendent OF the
painting corps OF the G. b. and 8. A.
road, is an old employee, having been
connected with the road for over 16
years. He has been in Ell PasO for the
past two weeks and will finish by the
last of this week.
His First Trip.
CM Woods, travelling freight and
passenger agent of the Frisco line, Is
In Ell Psso on business today. This Is
his first trip to this city in that cap
aci Y, having just recently succeeded
w B Worden, the well known agent
of the Frisco, who has been transfer
red to Salt Lake City.
Purchasing Supplies.
5. S. Hopper, secretary and treasurer
of the New Mexico Tie and Tim Der
company, who has been in the city for
several days purchasing supplies Tor
their camp at Bailey's on the A. and
s. M. railway, returned this morning.
Mr.. Hopper stated that his company
had contract with the Alamogordo
Lumber company In the Sacramento
mountains which will take them seven
years TO fill.
The Santa Fe Wreck.
A Santa Fee freight train in charge
OF Cond uctor Milford ran off the de-
railing switch at Wootton N. M, Tues
day morning, as told in . dispatch to
the herald, and mountain helper en-
CINE 972, which was attached to ID,
was turned over, killing instantly the
engineer, G. F. Davis, and the fireman
G. P. Williams.
The accident is supposed to have re-
suited from the air brakes failing to
work o. they were not turned on in
time to prevent the engine from run
ming on to the derailing switch.
Engine S79, at the head of the train
was also turned over but the engineer
and fireman escaped unhurt.
Engineer Davis was sitting on bis
seat and was pinned between the cab
size and the engineers air brake
guags. Fireman Williams was caught
between the boiler head and tank: he |
vas evidently jumping. The former |
leaves wife and FIVE children and the !
lst'er wife and three children.
Watching For Fires.
Mrs. Paul Reicke sits hour after hour
each sdsy. field glass in hand, upon
lofty peak In the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, Watching for fires in the
snow sheds that line the railroad
through the rocky Businesses. She and
her husband have undertaken the task |
for the company. The man watches |
for fires by night and the woman in the |
day time.
Red Mountain, on the brow of which |
stands the signal station, has a bold,
bare front that juts out from the
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Yuba river, opposite Cisco station,
four miles away. The signal house
is small but substantial, and has a
glass front.
There are fire alarm signals situated
all along the interior of the sheds,
only half mile separating one from
the next, and there are track
walkers to keep a constant lookout
night aud day and to turn in
an alarm If they see anything
wrong. But there might be fires
which they. would not see until too
late. and the entire chain OF sheds
mighr be singed off the landscape while
they would be running to the nearest
alarm box, even if they did see the
flames, if the woman up On the noun
tain top did not flash q much quicker
alarm to Cisco by telephone and have
the fire train rushing to the scene
W, thin sixty seconds of the time the
first smoke appeared.
Both Mr.. Reicke and his wife are
people of culture and knowledge of the
world. Philadelphia Inquirer.