Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-04-08
TRACK N TRAIN


Owing TO the illness of his wife,
Engineer H~awksworth is on duty.
Engineer Fred Hammer has report
ed for duty after a pleasant holiday.
Pennington is the ~aristocratic name
of a new engineer, who was taken
on at the local roundhouse today.
Engineer Sells and Engineer Red"
Denniston are somewhat under the
weather and the extra men are the
gamers.
The frame foundation for the new
air compressors was put in place this
( morning, and the cement work is be-
ing rapidly done.
| from Watrous last night and this
| morning went down to bridge NO.
1893 to do some work.
At the building department hea
quarters. four big watering troughs
are being manufactured for the Santa
Fe stock yards at Ration.
Fireman Redding is a brand new
man of the heavy shovel, whose name
adorns the extra board with the fate
full No. II in juxtaposition.
The No. 745 has been turned inside
out at the roundhouse, and it will re-
quire considerable labor to put her
internal economy INTO working order
again.
TI.41yr ~ fhn IJiakc nnnm0
tive & Car works, has received ord-
ers from the Santa Fe Central for
two locomotives in addition to prev
ious orders.
Mr.. M. Calvin has been appointed
roadmaster of the Beaumont division
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
from Sommerville to Conroe, with
Headquarters at N~avasota, Tex.
II Foreman Clifford and his able as
sociates returned from their hunt last
: night well supplied with webbet
! footed fowl that had fallen trophies
to their skill with the shot gun.
i. Orders were gwen 20 start tn
% track laying machine at Torrance OF
r the Santa Fe Central on Friday o
. this week. Seventy cars of steel rail
have arrived at Torrance; sevent.
: cars will arrive at Kennedy in a fev
:. days and ninety cars at Santa Fe.
No trains have come over the Der
: yer & Rio Grande from the mort
since the washout. The work tra1
from Santa re end of the line ma
been hauling rock daily and dunn
:. ing it to prevent the washout betwee
Alcalde and Espanola from widenin
- has peer reinforced.
Emmett Gym, Is years of age, wa
II killed on the Santa Fe track W an
=. a half miles from La Junta Monica
His father, John Gwynn. living on
ranch three miles fro mtown. The be
=. had stayed all night in town and cit
err started to walk home or was q
-, tempting to steal a ride. His Doc
i. was literally cut to pieces. The trac
walker found the body and notlnt
the authorities.
Surveyors are still at work ma
ming out the route of the Las Cruce
DemluR TOdu WulCA ~
mogordo to Las Cruces and thence
Deming. The surveys OF the road a
-, completed as far as Las Cruces al
from them it is seen that the rou
=, will pass six miles to the north
the old town. 1t is not an improbat
-. ity that the town site of Las Cruc
may be in a manner effected by I
10 placing of the new road.
-. In a rear end collision at Gua'
-, lupe station, on the Rock Islal
during the big sand storm Thursd'
one man was killed and three 9th
- seriously injured. The dead a
James H. Munger, brakeman; !
seriously injured: Conductor Gus ]
glehart, Engineer E. M. Rempe. ]
gineer f. T. Bosher. Brakeman M
ger was riding in the cab OF the
= CINE at the time and was caught
= der the wreckage and burned to dea
His appeals for release we're plti
leep Both fremen were slightly 1nJur
Du' The wreck was caused by a sew
sandstone that prevailed at the til
The freight cars were stacked up
the accident and burned with II
'he contents.