El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-26
WRECKS ON MEXICAN CENTRAL.

here over the Mexican Centru ye9.e'
tlay evening arrived this morning ABOUT
\ o'clock There was freight wreck
nm that road yesterday and one the DAY
before and one OF these caused the de-
Tav Int the particulars of the wrecks
eouId not be learned. The wreck that
occurred Saturday is said to nave been
pretty disastrous one. as Twenty-Five
loaded cars we're ditched and the track
torn ND for about an eighth OF a mile
Some of the cars were loaded with ore
This occurred near Torreon. An i'm
provised track was built around the
wreck so that the passenger train could
pass.
PASSENGER TRAIN WRECKED
The Southern Pacific passenger train
that should have arrived from the west
Yesterday at O'Clock arrived this
morning at $50. tnat is. part OF II did
Two cars were left lying at the side
of the track about four miles west OF
Casa Grande. AriZ.
Yesterday morning at the afore-men-
Toned place a broken rail caused the
deraiIment of four cars of the train
Two of them turned over. These were
the baggage car and smoker. The mail
ear and day coach were derailed but
did not turn over. No one was hurt.
despite the fact that there were about
twenty-five people in the smoker when
IL turned over. The engineer had re-
eeived slow order for that place and
was making only about five miles an
hour when the accident occurred
The road at the scene of the accident
is level with the earth and hence there
was no embankment down which to
roll The engine passed over the brok-
en- rail all right but the following four
ears We're not so lucky.
The accident occurred at a IN. and
the train was held on the spot until
D. m. The baggage was put in a box
ear that had been brought out from
Tucson for the purpose and was taken
10 Tucson II will be brought on this
evening on the regular train The
passengers will not get out until this
evening anyway
GOING TO MEXICO.
a L. Crew and NJ. l.. Mathis, tele-
graph operators. left this morning for
Ell Orc. Mex, to accept positions as
train dispatchers for the FL Orc Min
ing and Railway company. which last
year built railroad from Ell Orc to |
Tutilnango.
Mr.. Crew has been operator for the |
G.. H. at Marathon for the, past year |
MIR. Matthias has been working at his |
trade in Mexico for two years prior to
the first of August when be went to
New Orleans, his old home. on visit
He worked for the Mexican National
and the Inter Oceanic in the City OF
Mexico.
The company for which they will
work now is one of the most extensive
operating companies in the republic OF
Mexico They are operating mines,
railroads and saw mills and are now
building branch railroads from FL Orc
through the lumber regions in which
they have saw mills. Heretofore they
have been working only six crews and
one train dispatcher. Now they will
add three new crews. make their pres
ent dispatcher a first trick man and
chief dispatcher and add the two extra
dispatchers-
The manager of this road is Robert
j. Swazee formerly with the Mexican
International at Torreon. The gener-
al superintendent is r. S. Tanksley,
formerly chief dispatcher of the Mon
terey & Gulf at Monterey.
RAILROADING IN MEXICO.
IF there is country on the face of
the globe where the people. the laws.
and in fact almost every condition, is
harder for the railroad man than Mex
leo. believe | would make a trip there
lttSl W SEE NOW Odu GUILTY. |
could be- said an old railroad man
xho has just returned from Mexico
he has travelled in every country of
the western hemisphere where there
are railroads and has worked on con- !,
Struction work on roads in China,
South Africa and Australia. hence he
should know whereof he speaks.
Last November. just a year ago."
continued the railroader. II went to
Mexico, confident that when | got 6
there l would find situation. thing
that had been denied me on our north
ern and eastern railroad on account of
my age and slight failing in my eye q
sight. I carried the best of creden-
tiats and although ! was broke ! had
staid in Mexico any longer / would
probab bly, be in the penitentiary ,
Why? Simply because | happened >
10 be working on a train that. through
no faHlt of the train or engine crew
ran down and either killed or serious Z
ly injured two Mexican poems. who s
were walking OH the track and were a
struck by the engine.
II was working on the Mexican Gen.
trail down in the interior where the ;
towns are small and in these little d
intensity that makes life a burden TO =
Them and personal safety is at all 7
times problematical. One evening