El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-29
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The Columbus BRIDGE Damaged.

The Columbus BRIDGE Damaged.
The incoming G. h. passenger train
was four hours late this morning on
account of having to go around the
h-idge across the Colorado river At
Columbus. The bridge is partly
washed away and It will be two or
tn -ays yet before she G. b. trains
Can run on time again.
Troubles Multiply.
The G. III. train that was reported
ten hours late yesterday wss much
later than reported and did not arrive
u1t.l IL o'clock last night. Owing to
shortage of cars caused by this delay
the east bound G. Il. passenger did
not go out until after abe west bound
arrived aud the cars were cleaned. Tce
east bound left at u: 10 q. m.
Contractor Ward Q ad.
Old Mr.. Ward, the we'll Known con-
tractor of the firm of CLARK & Ward, fs
dead. The firm has been working
sub-cousrsct on the Morenci & South
ern uuder Streeter and Luck and Mr..
Ward has exposed himself too much,
being old and an invalid anyway he
was buried at DemioR Thursday. Mr.
Ward had q reputation for vim and
energy despite bis advanced years and
fnvslidisy, and WAS often out attending
to business when he should have been
ia bed.
American Locos The Best.
The Bald win Locomotive Works, a.
Philadelphia, have received an order
for twenty-five heavy freight locomo-
tlves for use on she government rail-
roads of New Zealand and have COM
menced the work Of constructing them
The Rio Tinto Mining Company, 81
British corporation operating In Spain |
is having built by the Bald win com
paoy six locomotives for use In that |
country. American made locomotives
excel all Others the world over.
Travellers Serlouly Delayed
There was q quartet of men at the
5. p. depot this morning shat seemed
20 be plsJ irg in hard luck; they were
travelling under difficulties and we're
making their way TO their destination
against many suver-ities. They are
not travelling together but have one
thing IL common and that IL trouble In
getting over the roads.
J. 8. and J. A. Cooke, brothers, OF
Whitesboro, Tex, are trying to get TO
Cotton, California, to settle up the
estate of deceased brother and ex-
pected to arrive there to night 10 order
to keep the matter from falling into
other hands which 1t is liable to do now
that they will not get there at the time
agreed upon. The delays of trains
caused IL washouts have set them back
about twenty four hours.
E. T. Babcock, a prominent cattle
dealer of Wilcox, AriZ., 10 on his way
home from Q business trip 70 New York
He says he doesn't believe that one OF
the trains he has ridden on since he left
New York has been on time and he has
been steadily about three hours behird
ever since he left ST. Louis.
W. NJ. Hoshaw, q mining man, Of
Bisbee, Ariz., is on his way home from
Kansas City. When near Parsons,
Kan, on Q branch of the NIX. & T. the
train he was on came up to the wreck
of q stock srain and was obliged to turn
back toFt. Scott and take the main line.
That made the Katy late ther OF the
way to its connection withthe 7. & 2. and
The train that came on over that road
was behind time all the way after he
got aboard it. The T. & P. passenger
Sparks from. the Engine.
F B Houghto division freight and :
passenger agent OF the Santa Fee, re-
Iurned this morning from q trip through
New Mexico and Colorado.
w. F. Furey, telegraph operator 7
,f the G. a., 10 laying of on account OF
1eiug sick and his place is being filed
,y Operator Bin,ey. of Albuquerque.
G. A. Haldane and Mr.. Mccormick
efs on she S. P. west bound passenger
r ain today for Arizona TO work on the 9
dorencf & Southern, the former IS .
sameter and the latter as . bridge .
carpenter.
z. j. Waite, for several months en- =
,loyed n the @. b. shops In this city \
. q machiniss, has resigned his place
nth the company and will leave in . n
ew days for Kansas City. From that n
lace he win GO east with q Mr.. Hart =
nan, who has engaged him ID assist 10 :,
machinery for an enterprise '
D be established in Mexico.
Priscilla Fined.
Priscilla Ringgold pleaded guilty OF z