Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-06-10
TRACK AND TRAIN
Sing a Song Of Santa Fe.

lue cQulpuucutS ntlc dlt always uSW,
The engines they are good and true;
The big conductor, we love, too,
On the Santa Fe. the Santa Fe.
The Great Northern, it can not go.
With the Santa Fe, the Santa Fe.
The Burlington it is too slow,
With the Santa Fe. the Santa Fe.
The Rock Island will never do,
The Frisco lines gone up the lue;
If you want a train thatll take you
through
Try the Santa Fe. the Santa Fe.
From Chicago to the Pacific coast,
The Santa Fe, the Santa Fe.
To the Gulf of Mexico is their boast,
Th. @4nsA ~ ~ csasa -
Through Colorado's mountain range
To California without change,
If you want the best trip to arrange,
Take the Santa Fe, the Santa Fe.
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Reports from south of the city say
the track is soft in places. but so far
trains have been able to get as far
as this city.
Train Dispatcher j. A. Cullum and
wife Of San Marcial, will leave in the
ear future for a trip over the great
lakes and Canada.
Ten miles of Mesa track east Of
the city has lost much Of its ballast,
and the trains that go over it first
will proceed at snails pace with a
section gang ahead examining every
foot of the road bed.
No s and No. A passenger trains
from the west are standing at ease
in the railway yards waiting for the
bridge builders to make a way across
Arroyo Pecos. The passengers are
living IN the fat of the land, as they
are entertained at the Castaneda.
The Gallinas bridge below the city
had a narrow escape last night. The
water surged against its piers with
tremendous force, and the structure
was shaken up considerably. How.
ever, the trains from the west crawled
yer this morning.
1t is estimated that as many as 800
people left southern California last
Friday over the Santa Fe and Southern
Pacific bound for the east. All are
takfog advantage Of the low rates
which have been placed in effect on
these two lines and the exodus is ex.
pected to continue during the month
Superintendent Easley reports only
n iron bridge, that across the Ar
roya Pecos, taken out entirely, but in
a. dozen cases the approaches were
started or the bridges shaken to sucl
an extent as to render attention nee
essary. 1t is said that all trains a
Ration coming west and all trains her,
going east will be gotten out thi
evening.
Superintendent Easley has a bis
gang at work constructing n tempo
rary tie bridge across the Arroyo Pc
cos about a mile east of the city. Tn
big iron bridge was carried isom,
distance down the arroyo by the fore
of the flood. 1t will be several day
before the damage is permanently re
paired, but it is expected that train
will pass owe the temporary bridg
this evening.
The Santa Fe announces that the
company is ready to accept fruit ship
ments~t TO the east. The high waterI
and general floods in Missouri ant
Kansas crippled the company for
time hence it refused TO accept pei
ishable freight during the interva
Conditions east are improved q som
extent. with the exception Of the Nil
sissippi river, of which some Apr,
hension is felt at present.
A crazy mar was picked up nea
Drake, Arizona by delayed No.
Tuesday evening. He had first pre-
sented to the conductor of an cas-
bound train Of the day before a Ii
gus ticket and was put off the tral
at Daggett. He climbed on the TO
lowing train and presented a goot
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