Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-03-06
ALONG THE RAILS.
Interesting Information Regarding
Railroad officials and Employees.
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

| ihbh WHY VI Nht CONTINUOUSLY
It is said that Emporia. Kan. has
fI"iished forty.nine engineers for the
Santa Fe Pacific within the last
seven years, and about n~inety-five fire.
men.
The shop force Is being increased
constantly by the arrival of new men
from the big railway shops at Chi
cago, Fort Meachim, Kansas City and
Topeka.
The Optic says: Brakeman +. b.
Lindsey went down to Albuquerque
from Las Vegas to get his wife and
children, who will make their home in
this city.
The dispensary business at the rail.
way hospital in this city is something
enormous. Since the first of the year
more than 1900 prescriptions have
been put up.
The superintendent new car was
occupied down to Albuquerque Mon
day by Stenographer McElroy and the
cook. Superintendent Fox having pre-
ceded them down the road.
Walter Sporleder, formerly a 80
ciety young man OF Las Vegas, Is now
running a freight train on the Santa
Fe between Pueblo and IA Junta,
Colo. residing with his family In the
latter named city.
A number OF men employed by the
Rock Island contractors still remain
in Las Vegas. they refusing to walk
out to the railroad camps and there
being no conveyances at hand for
their transportation.
The railroad well ut Kingman has
,aaahal m laath - .l~sxytuyA fant md
is now being timbered up. A holster
has been received and is being put In
place. The well will be sunk to O
depth OF $50 or 900 feet.
Fireman John Lancaster and Nor
gan Jones have passed the examina.
tion for locomotive engineers at en-.
roiia, Kan, and have arrived In Al
%buquerque. N. NJ, where they will be
Pacific railway.
In the Atchison. Kan, district court
Judge Bland. upon the application OF
the Atchison. Topeka a. Santa Fe rail
road. granted a N injunction restrain
Ing James A. Spalding OF Atchisor
from riding a patent railway bicycle
upon the tracks OF that company.
The Gallup Republican says: A fire
broke out In the section house, which
caused some little excitement for
while, but the fire was soon put Out
With small damage to the property
mostly by water. A number Of fire
/ mcn were on the ground within a few
f. minutes after the alarm was tent In.
! s. +. Busser. superintendent Of read
Ing Don for the Santa Fe company
passed through yesterday en- route L
Los Angeles to see his wife, who Il
+ very sick In a hospital at that place
o On his return he will stop on at La
Vegas to see about putting up a gym
nasium and reading DON for tn
y Santa Fc employees at that place.
Inc remains Of Mrs. l.. Wattles, wifi
b Of Conductor Wattles. whose suddel
death Is mentioned elsewhere In Tn,
Citizen. were shipped to Omaha. Neb
for burial from Williams. Arlz. Tn
Is deceased was a woman In the prim
il If life, and II Ii safe to say she neve
d had a sick day until stricken wit
n heart disease and suddenly died.
h A. Z. Austin. formerly trainmaste
OF the Wellington division. but no,
d tralnmaster OF the Oklahoma division
with headquarters NJ Arkansas City
recently lost an eye. II was remove
at the Santa Fe hospital at Topeks
Mr.. Austin recently had smallpox an
pneumonia, and II settled In his eye
II IL said that he may lose the othe
eye.
AL The Santa Fe Pacific railroad ha
I. put In a number OF new telegraph trail
J, order stations. The telegraph ofic
n at C%hallender has been moved 81
miles west OF that place to Davenport
Riordan, six miles west Of Flagsta
Cliffs. six miles east are the lionel
places for telegraph operators. as tn
only buildings In these places are tn
offices.
Thomas Madden, the new forema
of the boiler department of the loci
= railway shops. arrived from Sa
Francisco yesterday morning, an
u was shown through his department /
re the afternoon by the acting foreman
ii. w. Spellacy. Mr.. Madden will NJ
report for work for a few days; he
IN looking around before getting down
his duties.
al The Mohave County Mirror sayi
Z. Thursday at noon q w~estbound freigl
Al train with forty loads was switchs
a. onto the track on the north side of II
lie depot and crashed into two cars stan
ing at the Taggart company's war
house. The cars were driven dow
THE track and crashed against sever,
p loaded coal cars, damaging the cal
"a considerably. The pilot Of the hes
engine was broken on and II
wrecked portion forced under the e.
: CINE. The train crew soon had n
wreck cleared away. No n was 4
jured.
The Santa Fe has leased ten engin,
IN flom the Union Pacific. Some tin
ID ago the Santa Fe placed an order Il
~ n number of new locomotives, but q
10 CINE builders have been rushed wi
IA. work and the locomotives have n
Id been delivered. In the meantime Il
~ trafic on lhe railroads has increas,
ye and 1t has been found necessary TO x
Id additional motive power AT once. II
n. locomotives which are coming fro
Ak the Union Pacific have been stored (
some time at Cheyenne Wells. Col
1hey are OF the light eight.wheel tyl
ur and are manufactured by the Bal
err win, Brooks and Rhode Island col
~. ranies. They will go into service o
he 81 Topeka,
nd A coal train coming south met wi
es an accident Saturday evening about
O'Clock neal Chapeile. One OF Il
cars jumped the track and travel,
for some distance before Il turn,
~ over, and when Il did II turned 8
~ nore ears with II also. The track WI
- badly damaged for e a mile al
a traffic vas stopped all Saturday mig
~ and until II O'Clock Sunday mornin
rs Conductor Dusty" Rhodes was
charge OF the train. The wreckir
., crew were Immediately sent out fro
X AS Vegas, There was also n wreC
at Coalmore, near Springer, Saturdf
= morning, In which four ears OF orang,
we're derailed. Conductor Brennan W,
10 charge OF the train.