Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-04-20
A HOVE FOR THE DISABLED
MlM8 RS OF BROTHERHOOD
OF RAILWAY TRAINMEN
It will be Erected at a Cost Of 100000 and
May be Located at Denver, Colorado Springs
or SIN Jose, California.

Gated, most OF the members living in
The eastern states.
The brotherhood of trainmen is one
of the strongest railroad orders in the
United States, having over $4,000
members, who feel that they can al
ford to have a home Of their own.
Brakeman's Hand Crushed.
j. W. Anderson, a young brakeman
Of Winslow. Arizona, has been brought
to Santa Fe hospital in Albuquerque
suffering With a crushed hand. IL
was found necessary to amputate the
member just above the wrist. The
accident occurred at Williams. An
derson had just u%ncoupled a a from
the engine and signaled the engineer
10 go ahead. and had again gone In
between the cars to open the other
knuckle, when the engineer bumped
the ears and caught his hand square
ly between the bumpers. crushing 1t
into an unrecognizable mass.
Says the La Junta. Colorado, Trib-
ne: The Santa Fe seems to be in
a bad way as regards moving trains
south, but as soon as the new engines
arrive conditions will be greatly i'm.
proved. The local yards are packed
with ears of freight destined for
points south. and 1t seems to be an
impossibility to gel a move on any
of them. The La Junta mill has
twenty cars of flour in the local yards
destined for points in Arizona and
New Mexico.
1t Is understood that Tim OIeary,
special agent for the Santa Fee and
a former depot policeman in Las We
gas. will be appointed undersheriff 10
succeed William McCafferty, who was
appointed chief of police al Pueblo.
Colorado. OLeary was also a candi-
date for the position OF chief of police.
However. he. was more lucky than the
others who were after the pie, in that
he Is 10 be given another office. 1t
is stated thar he viii accept the situa
iion.
Rol.eet l.. Briggs filed q suit for
s1e,o0o damages againsl the G. II. at
El. Paso. The plaintiff is one of
The men who was injured when the
work Of the old G II. bridge
across the Rio Grando collapsed on
the third day Of last February. The
plaintiff was earning 81 a day as a
carpenter at the time OF the accident.
His left arm was broken and he was
badly bruised from head to foot. MIR.
lives In III Paso.
A great many railroad men are look
ing for jobs all over the country and
anxious are they that the watch.
men in the FL Paso, Texas, yards. say
hat they seem to be almost insane
about work. stating that they cannot
get II Al all. Not only COMMON labor
but good mechanics. blacksmiths
and others say that work never was
SO scarce. The applicants are from
over the country.
John Moore, a well known brakeman
the Santa Fe, and Miss Verlie Van
Dorm, daughter Of w. S. Van Dorm,
'oadmaster of the Santa Fee, astonish.
ed their friends by coming over to
Ration from Trinidad and getting
married. The bride Is only about sew.
,nteen and the groom twenty-one. The
'oung couple we're forgiven by their
and will take UP their rest
In Ration.
G. II. Reyington, recently assistant
superintendent of the Colorado South.
has resigned his position to ac- /
ept that of superia andent Of the
& Southeastern This road