The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-01
COLORADO NOTES.

hours ne was rescued, ana none 100
soon to save his life.
Father 4. II. Malone will represent
Colorado in the International Congress
of Public and Private Charities, from
July Both to August 9TH at the Paris
Exposition. The meeting Wednesday
night of the State Board of Charities
and Corrections made the appointment
of Father Malone. No money can be
appropriated by the board for ex-
penses of its members beyond the lin
its of the United States, so Father Ma
lone will have to bear the cost of the
trip.
Three miles east of Barr about
O'Clock Wednesday afternoon, Nelson
Anderson, seventeen years old, en-
ployed by the Colorado Carlsbad Wa
ter Company as teamster, while coming
TO the station with load of freight
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. The team which he was driv-
ing also was killed. The bolt tore off
his left shoe, which was picked up full
ly thirty feet from where he lay. He
was found few moments later by an
other teamster following, lying under
the horses with his clothing burning
There was no water close by and it
was impossible to put out the fire, his
body burning to "A crisp.
The state convention of the Peoples
party met at Florence on the 25th and
nominated delegates to the national
convention as follows: T. NJ. Patter-
son, d. a. Mills, William Durham. H.
G. sherman, Y, ]. Hart, Frank Mad
don. 7. II. Stratton. +. l.. Hawkins,
John Uglow, ID. III. Nichols, J. Z.
James, jackson Rhines, p. w. Mona.
han, s. Il. Eubanks, +. n. MCPhee. A,
Il Gray Dora DhnInc ~
Roe, j. A. Edgerton, Olive NJ. Bacon.
j. l.. Wallace, T. w. Overs, L. c. Kin
kin. Neal Mckenzie, J. II. Moore, ID.
Nj. Campbell, r. l.. Hubbard. ]. N.
Harris. Elmer +. Beckwith. Mrs Sue
NJ. Callahan. w. ]. Thomas, L. T.
Gray, X. S. Fesder. b. B. Bloom. G. T.
fhilp. \. n. Towney, II. Il. O'Reilly
md =. A. Anniss
Rio Grande train No. IL was wrecked
near Toluca siding Tuesday afternoon
by running into light engine. 1t was
head-en collision, but no passengers
were injured. Engineer Meehan of the
light engine was dangerously hurt,
and it was due to his heroism that the
accident was not more serious. His
Injuries are n severe confusion of the
abdomen, which may mean serious in
ternal liberation, n crushed shoulder
and several cuts on the head. The
cause of the accident has not yet been
| fully determined, but il is supposed
to be the defective machinery of the
light engine, which was being brought
to Denver, presumably to be repaired
In the Burnham shops. Both engines
We're badly damaged. and the front
end of the baggage car was crushed.
None of the cars We're derailed, but the
two engines left the track
BY the breaking of n scaffolding nine
ty-five feet high on the dome of the
new ''stove" being erected at the steel
works ut Pueblo, five men were hurled
to the earth, one of whom, +. ID. Cur
lis, was instantly killed. and J. w.
Stanton. fellow worker, had both legs
broken and his skull crushed and will
probably die. The accident occurred
while the men Were at work putting
the dome of the stove" From the
''stove" to the walls of the big stacks
angle bars for support are run at fire.
qucnt intervals twelve feet apart,
changing so that there is only six feet
in the clear. The dead man was almost
crushed to pulp. having his neck brok-
en-. skull crushed and all limbs
smashed. He was German, living on
Cartcrette street, and leaves n wife and
one child. He was n member of the
y. o. u. w, No. 45, Bessemer. and was
an assistant boiler maker at the steel
works. The other three men, f. III.
Freebury, Il. Van Bibber and Morgan
Williams. escaped with but n few
bruises. Freebury and Williams catch
ing the angle bars after falling about
twenty feet. Van Bibber seized rope
attached to the rigger on top of the
dome and saved himself by sliding
down the rope. 1t is stated that the
men working on the "stove" have re
peatedly asked that second scaffold
be kept under the one on which they
were working, in case of accident. For
some reason Ibis platform was never
placed there.
Two cases of interest to the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, and TO Colo
ardo people generally, have just been
decided by the United States Court of
Appeals at st. Louis. Some time ago
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company,
at Pueblo, filed bill for injunction and
damages against the Southern Pacific
company In an effort to restrain the
railroad company from putting into
force freight on merchandise from
Pueblo to San Francisco and other Pa
citic coast points alleged to be extor-
ton. viz. SLIGO per 100 pounds from
Pueblo to San Francisco. The matter
was laid before tibet interstate COM
merce cimmssion, and after hearing
the commission ordered the Southern
Pacific to give n rate of 40 cents per
100 pounds on steel rails and fasten-
ings, and 3Tl2 cents per 100 on bar iron,
cast iron. water pipe, billets, etc. The
commission declared that the rate from
Pueblo TO San Francisco should not be
in excess of seventy-five per cent. of
that in effect between Chicago and San
Francisco. The Southern Pacific for n
time obeyed the order, but later raised
the rates TO 60 and 10 cents. Then the
iron company went into court with the