Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1901-03-09
ALONG THE RAILS.
interesting Information Regarding
Railroad officials and Employees.
EIws N ABBRtvArtD FORM.

i've power was westbOund passon
ger last night
Robert Fetters is now sealing cicrl
ln the local railway yards. having re
signed his position ns clerk 10 fore
man Witty Of the roundhouse
u Us said that Emporla. Kan. ha,
tprt lshcd forty.nlnc engineers for IA,
tWta Fe Pacific within the last
) seven years. and about nincty-nve ere
men
The shOp force is bolng Increased
constantly by the arrival of new men
from the big railway shops nt Cm
chgo, Fort Moachim Kansas city and
! Topeka
The Optic SAYS: brakeman r. n
Lindsey won't down 40 Alhuuuorour
from Las Ncgns Ia set his wife aud
children. who Will make their home iu
this city.
The disponsary business at the rail
way hospital IN this city is something
enormous. since the first NJ the year
more than 1890 prescriptions have
been put up.
The superintendent new car was
occupied down To- Albuquerque Mon.
day 10y stenographor McElroy and the
COOK, Superintendent Fox having pre-
coded thcm down tho road.
Walter sporleder formerly so.
cicty young man of Las Vegas. is now
running freight train ON the Santa
l'o between Pueblo and la Junta.
Colo residing with his family iu tho
latter named city
\ number OF men employed by the
Rock Island contractors stW remain
IN Las Vegas. thcy rpfuaing To- walk
uut to the railroad camps ami there
being no Convpyanccs nt hand for
their transportation.
The railroad we'll at Kineman has
reached depth uf siXty-two feet and
IA now being timbCrod up A holster
has boon received and is being put in
place. The well will boz sunk To "a
depth of 250 or 300 feet
Fireman John Lancaster and Nor
nun Jones have passed tho cxamina-
tiun FOR locomotive engineers az Em.
puiia, Kan. and have arrived In Al.
buquerquc, H. NJ, where they will be-
nsh'Ened tu service on the santa Fe
raciac railway
'n the Atchlsun. Kan. district court
Judge Bland, upon the application of
tie MchlsOn, Topeka A Santa Fe rail
ruHt. granted an Injunction restrain.
ing James A. Spaldiug Of Atchisun
from riding a patent railway bicycle
upon the tracks uf that company.
The Gallup Republican SAYS. nrc
broke out In the section house. which
caused somo little excitement for a
willie. but the IRE was soon put out
With small damage 20 the property.
mostly 10y water. A number of Ere
rcn were on the ground within few
minutes after the elArm was scnt ln
=. = Russer. superintendent Of read.
Ing rooms for the santa Fe cnmpanv
passed through yesterday On route To-
Los Angeles To- see hts wife. who Is
very sick IN a hospital at that place
ON his return he will stop IN M Las
Vegas tn see about putting up gym
naFium and reading room for the
Santa Fe employees at that place
Tue rCmaius ~ Mrs. l. Wattlcs. wife
lot Conductor Wattles. whose titdcn
death IL mentioned elsewhere in The
Citizen. were shipped 20 Omaha. Ncb.
Tor burial from Williams Ariz Tho
deceased was n woman in the prime
L" lie. and Il Is safe 10 say she never
huc a sick day until stricken with
heart disease and suddenly died.
a. T.. Austin. formerly trainmaster
.ot the Wellington division. but now
tralnmaator Of the Oklahoma division
with headquarters at Arkansas CITY.
recently lost an eye. II was removed
at the Santa Re hospital az Topeka.
MIR. Austin recently had smallpox and
pneumonia. and II settled IN his eve.
II Is said that he may lose the other
eye.
The Santa Fe Pacific railroad has
pat In number Of new telegraph train
order stations The telegraph Office
Ht ChallendoT has been moved six
miles west Of that place 90 Davenport
itiordan. six miles wOst OF Flagstaff
Cliia, siX miles east are the lonely
places for telegraph operators. as the
only buildings in these places are the
Offices.
Thomas Madden. the new foreman
of the boiler department of the local
railway shops arrived from san
Francisco Yesterday morning and
was shown through his department In
the afternoon by the acting foreman
J. W Spellacy Mr. Madden viii not
report for work for few days. he is
looking around before getting down "a
his dutier.
The Mohave County Mirror says
Thursday at noon a wostbound freight
train with forty loads was switched
onto the track on the north side ~ the
depot and crashed into two cars stand.
inF az the Taggart company's ware
house The cars were driven down
the track and crashed against several
loaded coal cars. damaging the cars
/ considerably. The pilot ~ the head
engine was broken on aud tho
wrecked portion forced under the en-
ginc Tho train crew soon had the
wreck cleared away. No one was Ia.
iurod
The Santa Fe has leased ten engines
/ tom the Union Pacific Some time
ago the Santa Fe placed an urdOr for
/ q number Of new locomotives. but en-
riuo builders have been rushed with
work and the locomotives have not
! tecn delivered. In the meantime the
tfafiic on the railroads has increased
and u has been found necessary to get
additional motive power az once Tho
/ locomotives which are coming from
/ the Union Pacific have been stored for
some time at Cheyenne Wells Colo.
/ . hey are Of the light eight wheel type
aud are manufactured by tho Bald.
I win. Brooks and Rhode Island com.
/ punics. They will go into service ont
81 Topeka.
] A coal train coming south met Win
fn accident Saturday evening about Z
O'Clock near Chapollo. One of the
ears jumped the track and travelled
for some distance before Il turned
over aud when lt did h turned sis
more cars with it also The track was
badly damaged for over "a mile aud
traffic was gtoppod all Saturday night
aud until a O'Clock SUNDAY morning
Conductor Dusty Rhodes was Ia
GharEe Of the train The .wrcckiug
ctcw were Immediately sent out from
ms Vegas There was also "a wreck