Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-06-12


No. / passenger train due yesterday
at 1856 got in this morning at 1880,
No. 7. came twenty minutes later.
George Roe, Santa Fe agent at Ell
Paso, passed through the city this
morning on delayed No. Z bound for
headquarters.
The Rock Island probably enjoys
the distinction of being the only rail
road in the United States that EN-
ployes a woman as construction boss.
1t is stated that all Chicago trains
of the Santa Fe will now go through
by way of Topeka, as they did in the
days before the flood. 1t is not
thought, however, that the main line
to Kansas City will be opened up for
several weeks.
The Rock Island has resumed serv-
ice between Kansas City and FL Paso
and Fort Worth, using the Missouri
Pacific tracks between Kansas City
and Harrington. Until July / trains
Al and AZ between Chicago and Colo
RADIO will be annulled.
The Santa Fe expects to run a big
excursion from Denver to the Grand
Canyon of Arizona, after the lnterna'
tional convention Of the Christian En-
deavor society in Denver, July 10. a
very low rate will be made. not only
to the canyon but also to California.
The Santa Fe line to st. Joseph has
been opened up at last and that road
can now run trains through to Chi
cago over it's own track. Ever since
the water fell sufficiently to expose
the track to view gangs of section
HANDS nave been hard at work repair
ing the many breaks.
The Southern Pacific company has
decided to pay all its employees with
checks in the future and the pay car
system will be abolished. All checks
will hereafter be issued from the Of
fee of the auditor in San Francisco.
The pay car is becoming a thing Of
the past on all railroads.
The Kansas City union depot, the
venerable and %amphibious structure,
is again on earth says a Kansas City
special. Amid the blowing Of whis-
ties. ringing of bells and the cheering
of at least a thousand people, Frisco
train No. 1872, from Springfield and
the southeast. rolled through the mud
and water up the depot platform yes
terday afternoon and stopped on track
5 at exactly 6 O'Clock. The train was
the first to enter the depot since SUN
day morning. Sunday it, as No. 103,
was the last train out of the depot.
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Division Freight and Passenger
Agent George E. Roe, Of the Santa Fe
at Ell Paso, has received a telegram
from the passenger department stat
ing that trains Nos. /, 5, 7, 2, 6 and 5
will run regularly between Chicago
and Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado and
Pacific coast points. by way OF Lex
ington Junction and st. Joseph For
the present all business to II from
Kansas City will be handled OF stub
strains by way of Emporia, Kansas.
All trains by way of st. Joseph will
be able to make about the same time
as by way of Kansas City.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad has sustained a large loss in
the washouts between Kansas City
and Strong City and in damage to
its property and terminals at Argen-
tine and in the west bottoms. The
first damage to the Santa Fe was the
washing out of its tracks at Lake
View, neal Lawrence. Then followed
diseaster by water at Holiday, Strong
City, Florence and Emporia and the
flooding Of the great Santa Fe yards
at Argentine. The Santa Fe was
fortunate il its possession Of the EN-
poria cutoff, over which trains were
operated until Holiday was flooded.
Then the Missouri Pacific was and Is
now being used for all of the west
lines out of Kansas City.
The flood misfortunes Of the chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad
have been que largely to the disas
ter that overcame the lines which the
Rock Island use into Kansas City. The
Rock island has not a foot Of main
line into Kansas City. 1t uses the
Union Pacific between Kansas City
and Topeka and the Hannibal & ST.
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