Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-09-20
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RAILROAD NOTES.

IL iS reported that work on tlc Clm-
AKRON River a. Taos Valley railroad
will he commenced in the near future.
Ed Reed. OF the Ration shops. had
the misfortune to get toe cut OF by
a heavy piece ot iron falling on II. and
Ia laying off In consequence.
John Player. formerly superintend-
ent of motive power for the Santa Fe.
was always known on the western end
OF the system 80 cheap john"
Y. =. Hancock. n rrakemen with the
Santa r.. hes bcol promoted to the
rank of conductor. He has already
made his first trip in this capacity.
Joe Koeble. brakeman and extra con
ductor. is carrying his forehead In a
sling. He was struck by the arm of n
mail crane. and his forehead deeply
gashed.
Frank Delaney will leave Deming
for Los Angeles. Cal, on or about Oc-
tober LIST. to accept prominent and
good salaried position on a railroad
in that city.
John Cochran, Ration boilermaker APP
prentice. was working 10y n big pile of
boiler iron. when the iron commenced
slipping. catching his foot and mach
ing 1t so he had to lay Oft.
Locomotives lois. 1920 and 1896
have been put in the shop at Ration,
n. NJ. for electric headlights. Eight
of the passenger engines running out
OF there will be thus equipped.
Engineer V. w. Ashbaugh. who has
been running out OF Ration. n. NJ, but
who previously had an engine at En-
poria, has resigned his place and is
visiting in Kansas City for time.
C. NJ. Woods, travelling freight and
passenger agent Of the 81. Louis a
San Francisco road. with headquarters
at Denver. is In the city toda:, drum
ming up business for ms popular road
j. l.. O'Brien, rate clerk for the
Santa Re AT FL Paso. Texas, has beer
In Emporia. Kan. for few days visit
ing his family. Mr.. O'Brien was form
erly agent for the company at Emporia
Junction.
The Rock Island at French, Colfas
county, has the whole prairie covered
with material and is doing lots %
building. The Willow branch is nov
completed and trains are running, al
of which speaks very highly for th'
resources of Cofax county.
The Talbot bridge gang came Owe
the Ration hill the latter part OF las
week 10 help Williams crew 6nish th'
new coal chute and tear down the ole
one at Ration. The work Is progress
ing rapidly and soon Ration will have
one OF the latest pattern chutes an'
as good n one as there is on the SAINTS
Fe system.
George Foster conductor on tn
Dawson branch of the I'll Paso-Rcel
Island lines. was killed recently b,
being crushed under car. a Mexican
threw a switch wrong causing tw
cars to overturn. Foster was ridin
: on one OF them and his life was crush
e( out in an instant. II an America
railroad man had done such thin
in Mexico the whole republic woul
!, have hunted him down and ne woul
= have been confined for months In
= dungeon on scant diet before bein
given even to preliminary hearing.
There was a wreck on the Mexica
: Central near Chihuahua. Mexico, r.
Gently which must have made bushes
, strong for the wrecking crew. OWN
to heavy rains, an engine and thre
cars went down an embankment int
:. lot of slush that buried the locom
tive up to its cab. One thing that
~ almost necessary to the successf'
% operation of a wrecker is having
70 good foundation for the machinery an
the men upon which to work. A fe
weeks ago when two sleeping cal
were derailed on the Ottawa cut @
IL OF the Santa Fe there was considerab
" trouble for just this reason. that Il
IL earth, freshly graded and soaked
g. rain. sank beneath the lifting appa
atus OF the railroad men and the 7
suit was that great number
wooden blocks used In straightenii