El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-14
A STRANGER HURT.

we'll dressed man and woman were
hurrying across the tracks on the south
side OF the depot. presumably to board
the limited. In crossing the track In
mis- hurry the man tripped on the south
rail and fell forward. his forehead
striking the other rail OF the same
track His forehead above the eye was
cut to the bone abou two inches Inc
man and woman hurried back TO town
TO have the wound dressed and dld not
get to leave as they undoubtedly In
tended to do. The injured man would
not tell his name
MANY MEXICANS GOING OUT
:. H Buchanan had about hundred
Mexicans at the depot this morning
with the intention of sending them
ont 10 work on the New Mexico & Ari-
IONA road. of which he has the con-
tract to widen the gauge, and the COM
pany had provided him two cars in
which to send them. but he could not
get them all ready according to the
contract labor law and only about half
of them got out One of the cars was
then cut out and left to take the rest
of the Mexicans tomorrow. There was
another car of about sixty Mexicans
on the train. They were being sent
west to work on the 5. II. as section
hands.
4 MARROW ESCAPE-
An incident. which could easily have
been fatal to a participator. occurred
near Paris. Tex, At a station called
Ben Franklin. AS the train was near
ing the station the engineer saw a man
lying asleep with his head between the
ends OF two ties and nearly butting
against the rail. The discovery was
made too late to stop the train and III
the engineer had blown his whistle IL
could not have aroused him in time for
him to get out Of the way. 1t would
have probably just caused him to raise
his head high enough to have 1t knock
ed Off. AS IL was the train passed near
ly over him before he awoke. When
he awoke he raised his head just in
time for the last car to scrape his fore
head little. II he had raised his head
two inches higher he would have been
killed and the chances are he would
have done so had he awoke sooner. but
the engineer put on full steam and ran
over him so fast that he passed over in
time to save the sleeper.
A BRIDGE BURNED.
Yesterday afternoon about two
o'clock a bridge on the G. III. & S. A,
one mile east of FIT Hancock was set
on fire. presumably from sparks Of a
steam pile driver which was working
on il and nine bents of it were de-
stroyed before the fire could be put
out. The bridge is one which was re-
Gently wrecked by high waters and
had been temporarily cribbed up. 1t
was being permanently repaired and
the pile driver was putting in the new
piling- The piling had been soaked in
creosote to prevent decay and as this
is very combustible liquid when a
spark from the engine of the pile
driver came in contact with the creo- |
sote il ignited and the whole bridge |
was on fire in a flash.
The east bound passenger train on |
the G. H., last night went on out but |
was held several hours at FIT Hancock. |
The T. p. train did not get in until |
midnight on account of IL and the west |
bound Sunset Limited was considerably |
later than the T. p. The bridge has |
been temporarily repaired so that |
trains can now cross it and the in |
coming G. H. passenger this morning |
was on time.
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE
officer Rayner of the S. p. arrested
4 Mexican for soliciting at the depot /
this morning.
About twenty Italian immigrants
came in on the T. p, last night and
went west on the S. p. this morning.
Valentine Madarago. a machinist ap-
prentice in the G. H.. shops. quit this
morning and will move to Los Angeles.
Ed. Height. a machinist apprentice
In the G. H.. shops had to quit work
this morning about o'clock on ac-
count of being sick.
The wheel that caused the car to get
OF the track out west of town near the
river is at the shops for repairs. 1t is
in about the worst shape that car
wheel ever got into. The entire fiange
is broken of. reminding one of an old
hat with the brim torn of.
This morning the Sunset Limited
had on board thirty-five passengers.
ten of whom stopped here. The train
consisted OF five ears but on account
of so many of the passengers stopping
here one of the cars was cut out here
and returned westward on the 5. p.
passenger train.
Charles Warner. an Iron Mountain
came near being killed at
TexaTkars. He was riding a string of
box cars and was caught by chute in
the stock yards. He was badly crushed I
and may not recover. He was sent to
the hospital of the company in st.
louis.
Sylvester Short. night boiler wash
sr at the Santa Fe Pacific round house :
II Needles. fell off an engine which
ne was working upon as IL stood on the '
urn table. He struck on his head in
he bottom Of the pit and was rendered
unconscious. IL is thought that he .
will recover but his injuries will re-
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