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

tue hlO 0Iduut q Ell dSo uuu ulsto-
ion freight and passenger agent of the
Santa Fe at Ell Paso, Tex. On January
l. 1890. he was made assistant gen.
eral freight agent of the Santa Fe to
Topeka. Kans., which position he held
till September Is. 1899, when he re-
signed to accept the position of gem
eral freight and passenger agent OF
the Mexican Central, and on May Z,
1908, was made traffic manager of
that system, which Office he resigned
to accept his new position. Mr.. Hui-
son has not yet reached the prime of
his life. yet has made an inspiring
record. He is held as n of the
brightest young traffic men in this
country and has a personality that
makes him popular wherever known.
Railway Journal.
Shopmen Fight-There vas blood
on the moon at the Santa Fe boiler
shops in this city Wednesday norm
ing, says the San Bernardino Sun.
and for the space of several minutes
Foreman Madden had his hands full
protecting the machinery and taking
care Of the manned and wounded. 1t
wasn't an earthquake which caused
the trouble but a genuine rough and
tumble scrap. AS a result of the set
to a boilermaker is off duty with sore
Leg while a non-union handyman
wears a beautifully decorated eye.
About the middle of the forenoon
Boilermaker Slattery and H%andyman
Robertson, commonly known about
the shops as MARY Ann" became
involved in an alteration which soon
resulted in blows. For a time 1t was
rough AMI tumble and give and take,
but the fight was finally stopped by
the foreman, not, however, before
Robertson had received. q black eye
while Slattery was somewhat worse
for the wear
For some months there has been
bad blood existing in the shops be-
cause Of the presence of %non-union
men and it only needed the proper
spark to touch the matter of. The
oficials have the situation under con
sideration but just what will be the
result Of the fight cannot now be
stated. Both factions are anxiously
awaiting the action which will be TAX
en- and Who'll get canned?" is the
question OF the hour.
Narrow Escape-Train No. Is. on
the Denver & Rio Grande, with 200
passengers, being pulled into Pueblo
with q double-header, narrowly es-
capped destruction at $50 o'clock
Thursday morning. At the bridge
over Fountain creek. q half mile south
OF Little Buttes, the train was running
slow on account of the soft condition
Of the track, when nearing the steel
bridge it slowed up. This precaution
prevented a serious wreck, for engine
No. 702 went through the bridge,
which had been weakened by the
flood. and crashed into the foaming
torrent twenty feet below.
As the front engine fell the connec-
ton broke with the other engine,
which stood with its front wheels out
over the chasm.
Engineer e. A. Hughes and Fireman
g. M. Lillis were both thrown into the
stream with the first engine. but
climbed out through the cab window
ami were rescued by a rope being
thrown to them. No others we're in
jured.
A large gang Of men Is at work
| raising the bridge and until the track
| Is open the Rio Grande is using the
/ Santa Fe tracks to Colorado Springs.
Both the Rio Grande and Santa Fe
tracks we're washed out between Pu-
eblo and Florence in several places.
Three spans Of the steel bridge over
Hardscrabble creek, together with
several hundred feet Of approaches,
were washed away. Telegraph wires
were all down and no communication
could be had from the west. Damage
on the Santa re west Of the city was
much greater than that sustained by
the Rio Grande. It is not known
when the tracks will be open for
trafic.