Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-04-17
ALONG n RAILS.
Information Regarding
Railroad officials and Employees.
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

p tb'li'Allhh hibhN 'hltS WV h'i'hb
somc empty pocketbooks.
T.. w. Grant. who Is the head Of the
Santa Pc surveyors corps at Las We
gas. has returned from n trip to To-
peka.
Fred. Tillman has resigned his po-
sition in the Gallup yard and left for
California. His family will follow him
In n short time.
Apprentice Albert Raillard. OF the
I as Vegas shops. is contemplating a
trip TO his home in Gallup, N. NJ. in
the neal future for a few weeks visit
with his parents.
Engineer Penheld. out on the Santa
Pc Pacific. fell off his engine ear
Luna siding and was quite badly hurt.
He Is now being treated at the Dr.
Harper hospital in Gallup.
Gross railway earnings by 100 sys.
tens for March aggregate s56,459,S 1857,
n gain Of IA per cent over 1900, and
following a gain a year ago over 1893
in the same month OF 1875 per cent.
Engines No. ISL and GGs. which have
been doing service on the Ration divi.
sion for some time. have been trans
ferrcd to the Las Vegas division for
service. Crews will be assigned soon.
Fireman Davis. who has been firing
on the Las Vegas hot springs branch
for some weeks past. will be assigned
to his furmcr run on the freight ser.
vice. and Fireman Murphy Will take
the hot springs run.
II the southwestern railway. now be
ing constructed by Phelps. Dodge Il
Co. from Bisbee. is building along the
lines OF the original survey. IL will add
seventy-fvc miles of railroad valuation
to the assessable property OF Grant
county.
Conductors c. +. Allgood and J.
Lyons and Brakeman X. NJ. Allgood
and Engineer Bruce. OF the Southern
Pacific company. are all In Silver City
as witnesses in the cases OF those
| charged with breaking into freight
cars at Deming.
W. j. Black. the popular general
passenger agent of the Santa Fe rail
way. with headquarters at Topeka,
IL expected here tonight, and will
continue west to Thoreau. where, with
several Kansas capitalists. he will
visit some copper properties In the
Zuni mountain district.
Besides being a good officer, down
this way, Ben. Williams Is becoming
famous all over the country as a Grim
inal and train robber catcher. He has
lust been written up and photo
graphed for a well known sporting pa
per. Mr.. Williams Is o in the spe
Cial service Of the Santa Fe road.
The Gallup Republican says
Messrs. Gus. Mulholland and son, Bar
ney. Ben Hulsman. A. l.. Smithgall anc
Geo. II. Meyers left here for the Ala
mogordo country, where Mr.. Mulhol
land has n contract with the railroad
company to sink several wells. The
gentlemen will probably be absent
from Gallup for several months,
Fireman Kellar met with a serious
accident last night about 1880 o'clock
says the Las Vegas Record. He wa,
underneath an engine fixing the damp
or and as he started to go out EngineeI
Roberts, not knowing he was unde
the locomotive, pulled ahead. kellart
right foot was on the track yet, an
the tank driver ran against II but di'
not pass over the member, as the en-
gineer stopped the engine ~immediatel.
upon hearing Kellar's cries. His hee
was badly mashed and he will be lat
up for several days.
A wreck occurred at Tiptonyille Sun
day morning about | o'clock. The Ca
iiornia limited. train No. 3, ran int
freight train No. "a, while II was pull
ing into the siding at that place. Tn,
freight was trying to make Tiptonyul
before the limited came along and di,
- I.. ..ra not la thn AInna aud th.
passenger train crashed into the rea
end of the freight, derailing three cars
The pilot of the passenger engine wa
considerably damaged, as also wer,
the derailcd cars. The wrecking crey
were called out and after working
steadily for some hours succeeded II
eetting the w~reckage cleared away.
Il. p. c. Sanderson, acting superir
tendent of machinery for the Santa FL
has returned 10 Topeka from Chicago
where he has been for the last few
days. He was seen recently by a re
porter and asked whether any change
will likely occur in the mechanical dc
partmcnt as a result of the Withdrawal
Of Third Vice President Barr. Il hav
no knowledge of any" he replied, I'll
the Office of Mr.. Barr at Chicago the
told me he received a much better OF
fer from the Seaboard Air Line tina
the Santa Fe was giving him. ! RI
ceiyed a paper from Roanoke, Va
which contained half a column OF n
joicing over Mr.. Bars return to tn
east. He is well liked and esteeme
very highly by the engineers and fr'
men who know him, and the east
very glad to get him back again"