Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-02-02
TRACK AND TRAIN.

| taxing ldyOHS.
| Fireman ]. A. Linn, is under treat
ment at the railroad hospital
Supt. F. G. Fox went down the roa
in his special car this morning.
There are from twenty to twenty
five patients constantly under treat
ment at the railroad hospital
Operator Patterson who has had ;
long sick spell is ntw getting aIon.
nicely and will probsbly be at worl
soon.
Less loafing is demanded in the
local yard Office especially after night
SO says notice signd by the local
agent.
Fireman Blake, who is suffering
with rheumatism and oher ce.nplica-
tions at the hospital, i progressing
nicely.
John A. Ross, travelingengineer for
the Santa Fe. was in albuquerque Mr..
Ross was there on matter! r!concerning
the spur to be run from th American
Lumber cOmpany's mills.
VIM. Lane has just finisled another
good well for the Ell Pas Rock Is
land railroad company at Acho Lin
coin county, N. M. Good laters was
struck at a depth Of kuo feet.
Travelling Engineer John A. Ross
Of the Santa Fe. went downto Albu-
querque Saturday afternoon With John
McMurry who will take MI Ross
place on the Las Vegas divi5n, and
Mr.. Ross will take the north en- The
trip is being made to familake the
new engineer with his territory
A La Junta, Colo. dispatch Df the
2Sth, says: Ora Mccartney, aSanta
Fe engineer, was badly scalda at
Bloom station about 4 O'Clock Aster-
day afternoon, by his engine leving
the track and turning almost com
pletely over. The Santa Fe set
special and brought the injured nan
today to that city, where he vas
placed in the hospital
A Pullman sleeper on the rearof
train No. 8. which was wrecked nSr
Tucson, was detached by the tremO
dous force Of thu collision and rsn
down the grade INTO Tucson, crashire
into a switch engine. Both the en-
gine and t,e sleeper were damaged
to a consaerable extent. The ARRIVAL
of the lanaway sleeper was the firstl
me-. Of the wreck to reach Tucson
"a resident Of the state of Micbi-
an who was injured while alighting
rom her birth in a sleeping car in
le state of Ohio, has sued the New
ork Central in the sfa.a,-e.r --onr
as riding on the Lake Shore road |
hen injured, but claims that the
entral road sold her her ticket and |
as responsible for her safe trans |
from Syracuse 10 Detroit.
General Manager j. M. Herbert, OF |
le Colorado & Southern, left Denver
,r Chicago, to meet President Trum-
ull, who is on his way back from
ork. President E. p Ripley, of the
ANITA Fe,sis to be in Chicago at the
anne time, and it is understood there
J to be a consultation between the
hree officials relative to the double
racking of the joint Santa Fe and Col
rado & Southern line between Den
er and Pueblo.
George Fox, assistant yardmaster
# the Santa Fe railway in Argentine,
lad a narrow escape from being
round to death under the wheels of
switch engine in the Argentine
yards early the other morning. AS
FOX stepped on the footboard his foot
Tipped and he fell under the wheels
# the approaching engine. BY rolling
,ver and over Fox managed to get his
,ody off of the track. His hand, how
ever. caught on the rod of the truck
and was torn off few inches above
he wrist. Fox was sent to the Santa
Te hospital at Topeka.
Matters are lively in the new rail-
road town of Belen, N M. Rails are
now being laid on the new Santa Fe
grade from the town to the river and
IN a few days work on a temporary
bridge across the Rio Grande will be-
gin. The purpose of the bridge is to
facilitate the handling of supplies to
the construction camp at Abo Pass
and other points along the line. The
bridge will be on piles, but will oc-
cupy the site to be spanned by fine
iron bridge resting on stone piers.
Rock work in Abo Pass and grading
at several places are being pushed.
The passenger department OF the
Rock Island has published booklet
in which some of the history OF the
selection of the name for their new
California through train, the Golden
State Limited, is told. The work of
this train was left to the pub
lie and the competition for. the prize,
which went to the proposer of the
most appropriate title, drew thousands
of suggestions. Several hundred OF
these names, which we're not select
ed, are printed in the booklet. AS
the different ideas of what
is needed to make a good train name
they are varied enough to be interest