Bisbee daily review., 1905-09-20
WRECK ON E.P.&S.W.
 WAS SINGULAR AFFAIR
ENGINE TOOK ONE SIDE OF THE TRACK AND THE CARS
 THE OTHER.
1000 Feet of New Cutoff Finished. Report That Distance to Coal Fields From Bisoee Win Be But 15o Miles. Conductors Picnic.

Clearing up of the freight wreck which occurred Sunday west of Fair bank has not yet been completed oy the Southwestern. It may be gotten cut of the way today and the main track restored to service.
 The wreck was a remarkable one in several ways. As definitely decid- ed, it was caused by sand which was washed into the track during a storm early Sunday morning. The engine plunged into the sand, left the track, and standing upright half buried it. self in the soft ground alongside. En- gineer Shannon and his fireman both remained on the machine, neither sus- taining injury. Seven cars behind the engine shot by it on the side and piled up in a heap on the other side of the track. Had the cars followed the engine directly from the track they must have piled directly on top of it. and escape of the engineer and fire man from injury, and in all probability death, would have been next to impos- sible.
 Four thousand feet of the new Southwestern cutoff to Lowell were reported completed yesterday, out of the total of four miles to be built. The work so far done appears to be eX- cellent, and will afford an unusually good piece of track On it there will be but two curves. There will be no bridges, two arches taking the place of these. The grade will be very light to within a short distance of Lowell, yrh fhnra will hn a Ghnrr sr ai of stiff grade.
 Southwestern conductors are mak- ing preparations for a big time st Lewis Springs on the 24th. when they have their big picnic at that point. Conductors are coming all the way from Santa Rosa. They will have | with them their families and all the , friends they desire to bring. It IS now expected that couple of hundred or more railroad people will participate in the outing. Concha's band will |
 IL is learned by the Review from sources which ought to be re liable that it is quite likely that the Southwestern system is now looking to the building of another cutoff on their lines and that surveyors are now in the field surveying a line from either Jarilla or Alamogordo. via Las Cruces, to Deming. A body of sur veyors are at work on such line and while it is not positively known that these surveyors are in the employ of the Southwestern. that is the only log ical conclusion. It is stated that the cutoff from AlamogOrdo to Deming, where a connection would be made with the Deming branch of the South western, would shorten the distance between Alamogordo and Bisbee fully | 150 miles. The saving of a 150-mile | haul for all the coke which the South | western will bring to the mines in southern Arizona and Sonora from | Dawson would be an object justifying | the building of such a line.
 Another thing which would make a saving in distance between Alamo | gordo and Bisbee would be the short | ening of the New Rock Island route to the coast by 150 miles. Soon after the Southwestern purchased the North 1 eastern route the report came from Fl Paso that the Rock Island limited was to take the Southwestern route be- tween Fl Paso and Benson. This re- port was contradicted by the railroad officials and nothing more has recently been heard of it, though there are those who believe the report was in accord with what will happen in the future.
 Regarding the matter of extending the Southwestern to San Diego or the building of a line to that coast city which shall conect with the Southwest ern at Fairbanks or Benson, nothing has recently been heard, but there is yet a strong confidence that such a road will be under construction before