El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-07
AFTER SEVEN YEARS.

AFTER SEVEN YEARS.
H c. Archer. commercial agent for
the Kansas City Southern Railway
company. with headquarters at Calves
ton. came in yesterday morning on the
G. Il.
YES. the Kansas City Southern used
to be called the Kansas City, Pitts
burg & Gulf" said Mr.. Archer in an
sweT to an inquiry. yes. it's the old
=. c., but we have got married anu
changed our name.
Il used to come here for the b. &
o.. but / haven't been here for seven
years. continued Mr.. Archer, land i
have been laying off to come up and
teach DarbyShire how to play domf-
noes but / have just kept putting II
off Darbyshire and Sunset Hunt are
old friends of mine. After all these
years of planning to come to see Darby
now / have got here and he is gone.
When / got off the train this morn
ing | thought the bra keman had made
a mistake when he called this FL Paso
The town. or village, rather. that
used TO come to at this place was so
small | could throw rock across it.
Now here is a big city with so many
metropolitan airs that can hardly rec
ognize it.
You certainly have a good hotel
here the Sheldon and il is just as
good as there is in the state of Texas.
/ have been making regular trips into
Mexico by way of Eagle Pass. but now
that I have seen Ell Paso again and
see what city it has become, l think
/ shall make it a point to come this
way oftener''
Mr.. Archer says he will remain sew
eral days. He finds everything so
pleasant and he hasn't been here in so
long he is in no hurry to leave. Speak
ing of the climate he said it was just
right. When he left Galveston the
weather was uncomfortably warm and
the air full of mosquitoes; when he ar
rived at San Antonio he met a blizzard |
that nearly froZe him to death: but |
when he arrived in Ell Paso he found |
weather against which the most pessi- |
mistic. shriveled-up soul in existence |
can not kick.
CARS.
Particulars of an early morning acct
dent at Captain the other day has just |
reached here, and are as follows:
Three loaded coal cars and a water
car AT No. mine became unmanage-
able and broke away from the switch
crew. The mixed train which runs be-
tween this city and Captain was stand
cars.
The engineer of the switch. engine
the danger signal just in time
for the passenger crew and others at
the depot to escape. The cars came
down like a flash and struck several
freight cars. a passenger coach and a
caboose. demolishing some of them and ;
doing several hundred dollars worth of
damage. II
Owing to the earliness in the morn
ing and other circumstances it is al ;
most a miracle that some one was not
killed or injured. but happily every
body escaped.
Conductor Charlie Pollock rooms s
near the depot and he heard the signal
Of warning. He jumped out of bed.
erked on few articles of clothing and
hurried to warn Expressman Fowler ]
md others who were sleeping in the s
arriving there just in time for I
hem to escape IL
Brakeman Luther Jones tried to de- &
all the runaway cars by throwing the t
aught by them
Conductor Pollock shakes his big fat S
ides with laughter when he tells of S
he fright the colored porter got. The
orter was aroused in time to jump S
rom the car in which he was sleeping F
1st before the crash came. Charlie f.
avs he has heard of hair turning c.
'hite in a night but that was the first
lack coon he ever saw turn white in
minute. IL
II seed dem cabs comin's down de p
ack spittin' streaks of fiah." said the
orter. land l done thought de judge c.
ent day was come" e
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HE S. F.. A. & p IL
THE certainty of the early construc- ~
On of the Santa Fe, Albuquerque &
acific railroad is having an encourag- G.
e effect on mining enterprises in and at
out the fiourishing little town of San "
,dro." said a mining man who has NJ
en- in Santa F'e county. New Mexi- "
|. recently. THE line of road as in
rveyed." he continued. comes out of W.
jeras canyon. south of South noun te
in. thence making detour to the or
sst and north. The San Pedro sta of
N will be located in the saddle of Sc
e range. just above and east of the In
W. The town is already growing iu
d taking on new life under the slim 81,
atinS eHects or the new order or wi
ings.
With its varied and inexhaustible
neral deposits and the fattering nj
of enjoying direct rail COM Lii
InicatiOn with Albuquerque and San lit
Fee within the present year. and con- Sc
ction besides with the Rock Island
stem. San Pedro does indeed possess