Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1905-04-29


Albert Carleton. of Douglas. Ari.
Hona. was put to work IN the Santa Re
blacksmith shops IN this city
kid Aber, well known In this city.
Il nov running n passenger train on
the Mexican Central out Of the City
OF Mexico.
}. "a Campbell. secretary NJ paso
chamber Of commerce, was az Alamo
gofdO adyorilslng the excursion 20 ~
Paeo on May 4. 8 aud g.
From ten 20 fifteen mechanics are
being employed in the local shops
from day to day to fili the vacancies
made by men who are fcaianinF.
a snow slide OF some proportions
occurred 90 the Ration mountains sun.
day night judging from The fact that
a freight train was Embedded In three
feet OF snow fo- several hours.
Serapio Romero. of las Vegas. who
has large iie contracts with the Albu-
qucrque Eastern railway, returned
home this morning after spending sew
eral days Ia the city ON business
The Optic Gays. Engineer Sam
Smith, OF the 1927. has been granted
a short leave oi absence and has gone
down to Albuquerque, probably 10 IN.
vest In real estate while the boom Is
on.
Incoming trains from the east Last
night and today were beapattcred with
mud showing they had been through
q storm. Car cleaners were kept busy
cleaning up sbe coaches and washing
the Window.
Excellent progress financially has
been made toward getting the ncccs
sary funds for the new railway club
building at Alamogordo. shares
amounting % $1,000 have already been
sUld, and $4,000 are In the bank.
Conductor Frank Smith. who lost
his position on the santa Re on ac.
count of a collision between his train
ana n limited train near Shoemaker,
o. now located az Ia Grange, Oregon.
having a run on the Oregon Short
liao.
A lahorer On route west. was soizcd
with an oplepiic ht In the walting
room Of the Santa Dc station lasI
night about 1880 O'Clock. lie was car.
riod out onto the platform where he
received medical attention and was
soon all right.
~ r. spiorlng and J. W. Orchard.
with the engineer corps on tee con.
struction Of the Albuquerque Eagtern,
spent Easter sunday Ia the Capital
City. They state that work Is pro-
PRESSING rapidly and with good wealth.
or viii be completed In the near fn-
ture.
G. A. Cole. round house foreman at
Alamogordo, In company with his wife.
lett on a thirty days leave OF absence
on a visit to st. Louis with relatives.
ThOs Fieiden master mechanic with
hNa NaruIla effII gTauuu tho COL. Vaal.
dcnce during the absence of Mr. and
Mrs Cole.
A now engine for the Zuni Noun.
tain railway h standing ln the Santa
Ne yards and viii be- sent to Zuni az
soon a. the line r. cleared. The en-
gine was purchased recently hy the
American Lumber company aud was
built by the Hicks Locomotive works
OF Chicago
ny a careless step from the gang
way of switch engine Ia the lower
Texas A Pacific yards. ~ Paso. Fire.
man Joe Roberts fell beneath the
wheels between the engine and the
tender last night and had his Lex
crushed 10 nadly below the knee as 10
necissltate amputation
While working between the engine
and water car attached to an extra
oastbouRd freight train on tho g. H..
Engineer l. Henry lost his balance and
fell beneath the wheels out az Fort
Hancock, near ~ pasO. his body being
SIEVE, % aCros the breast and a iog
cui on. tho entire train OF thirty GERS
passing over him.
The Alamogordo Journal says Ma.
ohinisia we're busy the other morning
repairing a slight damage 90 engine
No. while waiting 90 pull out No
20 Hiyets got under the valve sheet.
and Ia take them out the water pipe
of the tender Was taken apart and q
the watar Of the tank was lOat, The
riyets were removed, the pipe closed.
the tank refilled and No 20 was pun
ed ont on time.
Since the running time has been
shortened and a coach f0r the use OF
ladies and first class passengers add.
cd 10 It's equipment, the Denver A
Rio Grande railway has become a ia.
yurite with Denver, Pueblo and east.
ern travellers. The line between san.
"a Re and Antonlto IL experiencing
considerable increase In passenger
traffic since the new improvements
have been inaugurated.
There was a hcad-end collision one
mile east OF sulEhacher Sunday night. |
Engine, 9is Engineer Davis, and No. !
9Sb, Engineer 0arvln Il seems that |
the latter engine was standing ON
the main line blowing on steam when
the gis crashed into her with terrific
force. The fault Ia laid &C the door OF
the nagman who failed 10 do his duty
No one was seriously hurt, though the
engines were badly damaged.