Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-01-12
INTERESTING STORIES OF
TRACK AND TRAIN
DOUGLAS Dispatca

Losing car out of the middle OF
the rain is an old story told by rail-
road men 70 open the eyes OF a novice
or one outside OF the fraternity, and
when the nearer first considers it. ii
does seem truly impossible but the
accident happened once to Engineer A.
Smith Of Douglas, aud he was tell
ing crowd of men about it in the To-
/ cal yards The other day.
The engineer said it happened while
| he was running on the Unicn Pacific
between Cheyenne and Denver, just
a few years ago. He said that had il
not been for the inquiring mind Of a
student brakeman on the train that
trip they would have gone clear In to
Cheyenne without ever suspecting the
car was out Of the train
He said If was while coming down
a steep grade near Greeley one night
that all of a sudden tae air in the
system of air brake went out He
said It didn't out suddenly but very
gradually and the train stopped. He
, said he sent one of the new brakemen
back to ind the leak and put on a
new piece of hose, and when he re-
turned he asked IL the engineer had
ever seen two pieces of hose on one
car He said he found two pieces
where he found the break in the con-
nection This aroused the interest OF
the engineer and he went back to see
about it. The cars had been coupled
up all right by the brakeman, and
while they were looking around they
saw up the track quite distance a
large dark object in the moonlight
which looked like a freight car They
went back and found 1t a car that was
supposed 10 be In the train where
the coupling of the air hose had been
made 1t was lying clear outside of
the right of way. which was fenced
in, and the fence was nowhere broken.
The men We're so mystified that they
felt like pinching themselves to see if
they were awake. Finally, learning be-
yOnd question that the car aad actually
come cut of the train, they went on
in to Cheyenne and reported the ac-
cident. Mr.. Smiths explanation of
the accident is that one Of the heavy
beams under the car dropped and the
car was pried up on the track and
free of the train. As the train was
going down hill the two parts had come
Together and coupled The piece of
but had remained coupled and that was
how the brakeman found the two
pieces of hose on enc end of the car.
The story is pretty hard to believe,
but Engineer Smith said he had clip
pings of newspaper accounts of the
accident.
General Passenger Agent V. r. Stiles
and General Freight Agent A. R. Brown
of the Ell Paso & Southwestern arrived
in Douglas yesterday. Mrs. Stiles also
accompanied the parry. While in the
city Mr. Stiles called at the room in
the Gadsden hotel, occupied by the
Postal Telegraph Office and which is
TO be the new uptown ticket Office of
the E. P. & s. W. Mr. Stiles admired
the room and expressed great salts
faction with it as a location for the
company'ss Office. He was unable to
say. howeSer, just when tne Office will
be installed.
Chief Electrician Rasmussen of the
E. P. & S. w shops in FL Paso has re-
signed his position to go 10 McAlister,
Okla, where he will occupy the same
position with the street railway COM
pany.
Jack Nalen, a former brakeman on
the e Paso & Southwestern, is now
making his home in Tucson, where he
is at work WITH the Southern Pacific
The FL Paso Herald says that a
small mother-hubbaTd mine locomo-
tive is in the local yards there await
ing shipment to Arizona"
Cafe car No 102 has been taken off
train No. l and No. 80, smaller coach,
put in its place. Coach 102 went into
the Ell Paso shops for some extensive
repair inside and out.
Superintendent Paxton of motive
power on the Southwestern arrived in
Douglas yesterday for short visit
on business. He came in from the
west.
Hostler Peskche is now back at work
after having been off for few days
on account of illness.