Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-06-23
A SERIOUS ACCIDENT
AT LAS VEGAS
Fell Under Freight Gar and Two of Its
Wheels Passed Over His Left Side
Mangling 1t in Fearful
Manner,
An INMATE OF THE INSANE ASYLUM
ESCAPES AND FLEES TO THE MOUNTAINS

ling st. MichaeFS College at SANTA re
returned this afternoon.
Mrs. Edward Hill and family an
: Mrs. Samuel Goldsmith, who hav
. been visiting here for the past fey
:, months, returned to their home i
Ocate today.
C. Fl. Young of Denver, superintend
ent of the Wells-Fargo Express Com
! pany, was here today.
Mrs. Edward Ward and Marsha
Outright returned today from Den
yer, Where Mrs. Wards daughter, Ma
bel Bair, was put in the House of the
Good Sheperd.
Miss Georgia Murray, who has com
pleted her ten months term of schoo
at Wagon Mound, returned Saturday
afternoon for her vacation.
Robert Olinger and w. e. Johnson
are here from Mesilla Park, on their
way to Durango, Colo. They are trav-
cling overland on pack mules and
stopped off here to see friends.
The Normal graduating class this
year consists of four young men and
seven young ladies.
The solicitors for members of the
proposed Y. M. c.. Association are doing
well, and it seems the success Of the
venture is assured.
Mrs. C. C. Gse will entertain num-
ber of friends at cards next Thursday
and Friday evenings Mr.. Gise will
take a hand in the entertaining.
| In the case of James Conant VS..
Charles Clay ct al. the injunction or
derng the defendant to turn the
$1,5OO winnings at gambling over to
the court was dissolved, giving the vic
tory to Mr.. Clay.
| The new stamp cancelling machine
was set up in the postoffice Saturday
\ by an expert from Washington, and it
grinds out the letters faster than they
can be counted.
! Frank Dollman, one of the SWITCH
men, left for the east last night. His
departure was rather sudden and it is
rumored that he left few merchants
holding a bag. He took his brothers
trunk and clothes, also.
/! The Howe show people got a run for
their money in Ration. and the Ration
ties did, also. The ticket agent got a
bullet through his wind pipe for
working the short change racket and
thes uckers paid for six shell games
that We're run.
Norris Cochran. Miss Sophie Gilchrist
and Miss Helen Blake contested for
the Springer medal for oratory and lit
erature Friday night at the Normal.
The decision of the judges will not be
given until commencement night, at
the Opera house.
Pedro Maestas, an inmate of the asy-
lum, escaped from his room in the
third story of the building at midnight.
He broke the window and iron guards
and descended to the ground by the
aid of rope into which he converted
the bed clothing. When he skipped,
Pedro wore absolutely nothing, and it
is supposed that he is secreting him.
is being made, but no trace of him can
be found. Maestas was admitted to the
asylum from Union county about eight
months ago.
Captain Austin, Hon. Charles A.
Spiess, H. c. Robinson and Mr.. Kelly
formed party to Fort Sumner Satur
day morning, to attend the sale of the
sheep of Juan Santistevan, to satisfy
a mortgage held by the National Bank
Of Trinidad Mr.. Santistevan was for
merly one of the most prominent
ranchmen in the territory, but he has
had bad luck of late. and this sale will
probably wind up his affairs.
A serious accident happened Satur-
day morning about $40 on the city
track, back of the Santa Fe freight
house. by which Juan Leyba, native
about 43 years of age, will probably
lose his life. Leyba and several men
were unloading car of machinery for
the Ell Porvenir Coal Company, and
We're in the act of lifting large der
bumped into the string of cars, of
which, the car on which the men were
working was the end. Leyba was
standing on the edge of the fiat car,
and the hard. sudden jar threw him
backwards on the rail, when two
wheels passed over his entire left side,
terribly mangling the body from head
to foot The men jumped down i'm
mediately and pulled him off the
track before the other cars could run
over him, but too late, probably, to
save the life Of their friend who, with
out murmur, soon lapsed into uncon-
scoiusness. The injured man was con-
veyed to his home on the west side and
a physician was called. Leyba is a
widower, and has a grown daughter
who has been keeping house for him.
He Is in poor circumstances. and il he
does live will be MANNED for life. L.
H. Sena, cousin of the injured man,
has grewsome relics of the accident,
and nonchalently showed the reporter
several small bones which were picked
up from the mangled body and which
he is carefully preserving in his poe
kets. Leyba is well known and worked
for Marguerite Romero for a number
of years. A report from the injured
man late the same afternoon says that
1t is probable he will live, but one leg
and one arm must be amputated.
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