Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-06-25


had been driven. There was a cheer
fro.A the men who stood on the Kaw
banks and saw the affair. The Rock
Island railroad had won the race TIC
get the first bridge over the Raw.
The Santa Fe Central railway is
running daily trains from Torrance to
Moriarity, a distance Of So miles. In
another month daily trains are ex-
pected to run from Torrance to Santa
Fe.
The excursion which was advertised
by the Denver & Rio Grande to be run
st. Johns day to the San Juan pue-
bio TO witness the exercises was called
off. The Rio Grande is so high that
the approaches to the bridge over it
are scarcely considered safe enough to
chance running a heavily loaded ex-
c~ursion train over it. The railroad
company concluded to take no risks.
The people who saw the pile of
~wreckage at Waldo agree that it could
not well have been worse. One Of the
engines was smashed into scrap iron,
literally scrambled, as one OF the
spectators put 1t. while the other, a
heavy hog which stayed on the
track, was badly bent. The contents
Of sixteen cars were piled up fifty feet
high in a space Of two car lengths and
the wreclage was tangled and twist
ed so that the wrecking crews working
from both ends had all they could do
to get the track clear by three o'clock
the afternoon following the wreck.
A report vas in circulation this
week that Engineer d. j. Daze, well
known here, had been killed near
Bakersfield, Calf, by the explosion
Of the boilers Of an engine. 1t was
the fireman that lost his life. AL
freight train was running between
Rowen and Keene, when the boilers
of the engine exploded, instantly kill
ing Fireman Laidley and severely |
scalding Engineer Daze. The body of
the dead man was taken to Kern and
Mr.. Daze was taken to the hispital at
Los Angeles. Latest reports were
that Mr.. Daze, although badly in
jured, will recover.
The obstacles in the way of the
Rock Island securing control of the
San Antonio & Arkansas Pass have
been removed. The latter has for
mally notified the Texas railroad COM
mission that the penalties which that
body had prescribed had been accept
ed by the stockholders, and that the
illegal bonds, amounting to 1855, 600,
would be cancelled, the capital stock
reduced from s5,0 900 to 81, 900, 900,
and the property completely segre-
gated from the Southern Pacific. 1t
is understood that the road will at
once be turned over TO the Rock ISL
and-Frisco interests.
An attempt is being made by the
Southern Pacific Railrad company TO
nip unionism in the bud at PORT I,os
Angeles, says the Los Angeles Record.
About a month ago a union of long
shoremen was effected by the Fedora
ton OF Labor, and seventy-one mem.
bers were secured. One week ago ten
OF the men were summarily d~ischarg-
ed and since then fifteen others have
walked the plank. A carload of
has been rushed to the docks
and 1t is the belief of the union men
that 1t is the purpose of the company .
to break up the union If possible. The
men are standing firm, however, and
regular meeting which followed
he discharge of the men. saw seventy
Of the total seventy-one present. AS
he men nave made no demands upon
he company, either for increase Of /,
wages or decrease in hours, nor have
hey voted to make any such demands. !
I seems like an open and aggressive j
var against unionism. II is SO con-.
'idered by the federation. ]