Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-07-12


fmprosenenss Ga the rsAiing Stock
and terminal facilities. the cost a
Which Win aggregate sssasase. viii
b. made within the next year by the
MEXICAN ~fnsefa~tionai rsiinaSd. Tsen-
~ freight rnxines have been received
from the Baldwin locomotive works
These Win b. used In hauling the
heavy freight over the grades a. the
road. Five hundred coal carr al So
90 capacity have also been received
and are non In service. The Insernsr
tsonal has also snferd the market for
. large number u additional ears Of
all classes. go A. - hox. - stock
and ieo Cat ean.. Fifteen more freight.
nine passenger and seven switch en-
zines are also % BE- ordered. SpeeifI.
cations for Improvements Of depofs
and switching yards n Monciosa and
Barroteran have been approved by the
directors. A large reservoir 10 also
10 be built five kiiometers south Of
Rarroseran and another wili be con.
safoSssu ~ hsfmanss.
AFnes sssp.
Perhaps In all the history Of the
Alton, says the Bloomington Panta.
graph. there vas not a more remark.
able Incident than that of Sunday
morning at Alton. when q shower Of
frogs stopped the great engine Of the
Alton limited and made Il impossible
for the iron horse to travel over the
rails. The train was northbound and
the engine Vas 81 with Engineer Al
Barker. the veteran. At the throttle.
Just before the train reached Alton
there vas . heavy rain storm and
when the water CEASED. the peopleI
sere amazed TO find the ground lite-
rally alive with frogs about the sine
Of a silver quarter. When the engine
sought 10 take the train up 10 Alton
hill. the frogs ON the track were
crushed and the flesh acted like so
much grease. destroying the tractiye
force. The drivers revolved furious.
~ but the train would no move an
inch. Finally after fifty minutes was
lost waiting for a pusher. the train
vas taken up the hiii. Engineer
Barker later made mp twenty mimi.
ties OF the deiax In the pit Of the
roundhouse Of the company there, the
frogs were especially numerous, and
they were assembled there 10 the
depth Of fully twelve inches. Many
were alive but most OF them were
dead. Where they came from u a
mystery that no n could explain.
Woman Leaps Under Moving Train.
Deaf to the pleadings and tears Of
her little daughter. a Portuguese
woman. brushing aside the child who
pluckily ssroye to refrain her mother
folded her arms and threw herself IN.
der the last car Of the westbound
Southern Pacific passenger at Lords.
burg. Thursday afternoon. The wo-
mans body was cut in two. Her
remains were discovered by persons
sitting In the rear end Of the obser.
walton car. Sympathetic passengers.
taking In the situation quickly. sub
scribed a purse Of $500 for the little
girl 50 suddenly left motherless In a
strange land. II Is thought the un.
fortunate woman was impelled to the
rash act while In a frenzy OF fear and
despair. Unable to speak a word Of
English. she had travelled from New
Orleans. where she had but recently
landed from Portugal. Her destina.
ton was California. where II Is sup
posed her husband was employed as
a miner. Il was necessary for her to
change cars at ~Lordsburg. When
Conductor Zwick. who was In charge
of the train. examined her ticket. he
informed the woman as well as he
could by signs that she was on the
wrong car aud must change. He as.
sisted the woman to alight and then
No. 9 pulled out. Handing her purse
and ticket to her little daughter. the
woman watched the cars go by until
the observation car was opposite.