The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-09-13
FOUR DAYS MAIL
ARRIVED LAST NIGHT.
To Relieve Anxious Brownsville
POstoffice PatrOns-BrOught BY
"HeywOC.. Flyer"

The Haywood Flyer, consisting of
an automobile and two push cars, ar
rived in Brownsville from the Ar
royo Colorado bridge last night at
Il o'clock, bringing the mail which
had accumulated at Lyford and Har-
lingen for this point up to Friday
night Both of the push cars were
| stacked with as much mail as they
could possibly hold, although the
! special brought only the mail for
| San BenitO, Olmito and Brownsville.
This mail included that of last Sun
| day and Monday, which had been
! stopped at Lyford, and of Thursday
and Friday, stopped at Raymond
| vile. That of Tuesday and Wednes-
| day had already been sent by way
| of the Laguna Madre and Isabel
The automobile left here yester-
day morning about eleven o'clock
for the bridge, carrying Col. Hey
wood, Mail Clerk Hamilton, and the
chauffuer, besides Lon c. Hill of Har-
lingen, the only passenger. The mail
from Brownsville was also conveyed
by the machine
The trip was prolonged fully five
hours longer than anticipated on ac-
count of the breakdown of the Fly
er's motive power
Shortly after leaving here yester-
day morning with the outgoing mail
the engine on the auto became de
fective. Upon reaching San Benito,
it was found necessary TO replace
it with another IS required sew
eral hours. By o'cloc- e special
however was ready to resume its
trip, and started again. but evidently
Col. Haywood had neglected to take
along his rabbit foot" for bad
luck again befell the cheerful lite
Flyer. 1t had only progressed
about two miles, when it encount-
cred a mule which was evidently
inclined to dispute the right of way
with the Flyer. Conductor Haywood
had all steam on at the time, in
desperate effort to make up for lost
time and, not being equipped with
air brakes, could not stop quickly
enough.
The inevitable happened. The clash
/ came. and for a few moments both
mule and machine occupied the
same space on the track at
| the same time-science to
/ the contrary Notwithstanding
mule being knocked down where it
| stood and the auto stopping right
over it. Only one wheel of the ma
chine left the track
vt once the train crew started
/ to liftthe machine from off the mule
The animal was lying directly be
meath the hot water pine of the en-
CINE which was flowing rather free
/ ly, and caused the mule to emit a
series OF bellows that Mail Clerk
Hamilton says could be heard for
several blocks
After the machine had been lifted
off him, as if to show his apprecia-
ton for being helped out of his
painful predicament, the mule en-
! deavored with his left hind foot to
| land a solar plexus blow on Mail
/ Clerk hamilton, but was unsuccess-
/ full After being taken out from I'M
4 der the machine the animal trotted
mp the track directly in front of the
auto and refused to pay any atten-
ton at all to the shouts of the
crew or the hOnk of the auto A
man was spied at a nearby crossing
and requested to head off the con
trary critter" which he did, but the
mule started back towards the auto
ana it was only after several min
utes OF persistent ''chunking by
I the entire crew and the man at the
crossing that 1t could be persuaded
to leave the track AT all
After this the Flyer had smooth
running and reached HarlinSen
about seven O'CLOCK, where the two
push ears containing the mail were
in readiness for them. At 7-4o P.
~. the start on the return to
Brownsville was made, the Flyer
reaching here last night at about
II O'Clock. The nail was carried
directly to the postoffice who're d
clerk who had been detailed for the
lob worked throughout the entire
night distributing it. On account OF
there being so much mail the task
was a difficult one and il was about
noon today before all Of the mail
was distributed
The special left at S O'Clock this
morning with the outgoing mail and
q ton of ice for San Benito