The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1902-01-30
RAILROAD NEWS.

line from Englewood to a point in Colo
rado, presumably Trinidad. in which
case Liberal will be the proper distance
for a division point.-Liberal News
/ About thirty Thousand tons of ice
have been cut from the Santa Fe ice
fields in the Hot Springs canyon at Las
Vegas. n. NJ. and now work has com
menced on the second crop. The quality
Is excellent. being pure and in thickness
varying from nine to sixteen inches A
large quantity has already been stored nj
La Junta.
The official investigation of the col
lision which took place near Syracuse,
kas-, between trains Nos. 6 and q, was
held in Superintendent Ayers office at
Dodge City last Wednesday,. Engineers
MadIgan and Smith, and also Conductor
Piper, of train No. 6, were held RESPONSE
bic for the wreck and discharged from
the service of the Santa Fe
Santa Fe firemen are making objec-
tions 10 the new class of s.battleship'' To-
comotives. because they are obliged to
learn the trade over again This comes
about through the fact that there are two
doors to the fire box, and in feeding the
fire it is necessary for the fireman to
shovel both ways. To one who has
learned only one way it is small task
to acquire the other. The engines appear
to be giving excellent satisfaction as re-
CARDS speed and power.-La Junta Tri-
bune.
A Washington telegram states that
the postofffce department was advised Sat
urday that considerable mail was
lost in the collision on the Santa Fe rail-
road between trains Nos and near
Coolidge. Kansas, January goth. The
FORMER train carried closed pouches con-
tanning mail from Denver, Colorado
Springs, Pueblo and other points in Col
orado. and destined for Eastern points
All this mail was destroyed, but the mail
in the other train was saved. except a
few letters.
The conductors and brakemen of the
Santa Fe system have asked the manage
ment to grant an increase in the present
scale "f wages. AT present conductors
receive three cents per mile and brake
men two cents, varying somewhat ac-
cording is conditions and places of en-
pioyment. The exact amount of the in
crease is not made public. The officials
claim that they paying as much as
any of the other roads and will not con-
slider the demand unless they can can be
shown some good reason for granting it,
Further details of the head end COL
lision on the Santa Fe, near Syracuse
has-, Monday, Goth, explain why the
wreck which was apparently a bad one
was attended with no serious injuries or
loss of life. los. and z were moving
very slowly, but as No. passed the
siding it is reported that the engineer of
that train will be held at fault. Engin-
eer Smith explains his neglect from the
fact that he 1Ost track of his bearings in
the furious snow storm which was ragin.
Ihe direct damage to the trains would
have been small had not the baggage car
taken fire as a result of the shock of the
colilslon. Some waste paper came in con-
tact that with the stove. and before it
was discovered that fire existed, it had
gained such Roadway that it could not be
extinguished. -Four coaches in all were
destroyed. including the baggage car
The loss will not be heavy the Santa
Fe as all the property was we'll insured
The damage to the big engines, Nos.
1O19 and 1920, was small. but it is re-
ported that II will take at least 81 900 to
fix them up for service again. The en-
gines will be taken to Topeka to be re-
paired. the drop pits in the local shops
not being large enough to handle them.
L. j. Draper. the express messenger who
had two ribs broken, and Perdfe Love,
also an express messep pger, who had five
ribs broken, are still in the hospital, and
reported to be doing well as could be
expected--La Junta Tribune.
A woman passenger describes the late
wreck, as follows:
"We were just seven miles out of Cool
idge in the most desolate part of Kansas.
L never saw it snow faster and in larger
fakes. All the passengers had to stand
ont in the storm until the men conld push
the last Pullman back far enough so it
would be out of danger of catching fire.
There were very few passengers on the
train For long time they could not
get the car started 1t looked as if we
would have to camp in snow over uight,
but they got it twenty thirty feet
from the rest of the burning train.
Everything burned except this one sleep
er- Annie and 1 got our grips, lunch