El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-07-29

he has not been seen since the dCCAo0ii'-
Conductor Hughes was not hurt
The Injured Carpenter.
u was on the second span of the
bridge when it happened" explained
O. II, Scott. the carpenter. now at ProVl-
dence. a beam must have struck me,
for 1 tumbled onto the river bed L
think then 1 was unhurt and IeH cieoi
of the car Then something fell on me-
il was jackson. L was on my race III
the sand, and ms Knee Suo7N'
into my back.
w Jackson, the other carpenter,
was uninjured. He remembers raining
on Scott The injured man has an ugly
bruise near the spine He is In great
suffering, and may be the most serious
~ injured.
Wcmen frightened.
o.r+v of Mexican women received
exfui fright. and one was injured mrs
H. McDow. her daughter, Miss Llnraoa
McDow. and her friend. Miss Maria
Stockmever. made up the party. only
Miss Stockmeyer was injured In IahIhE
against the iron seats, she received .
badly bruised face, and an injured MP
She tainted, and was revived by hef
frsonds she was removed to her home
in Juarez. Mrs. mellow was paoly
shaken. but uninjured otherwise
Mother and Babe.
Hugging her 4monthsold lnIahl -
her breast where the baby hao huL seu'
Convention Fuentes, VINO lives al Mill
and oregon streets. was par VI IN
nile Of humanity. In attempting 10 save
her child. the woman received an ugly
+.u and was injured about the race
and legs. and the infant about the mp
In ambulances, carriages, and auto
r,ohfles- the injured were rushed TO I'll
Paso hospitals. All but four cases "ehl
10 Providence. Those at Hotter Dleu arc
o. c. Green. passenger; PanDIino NJ
nonez. Maria Basuiuo and ElTlra VIII
liams.
Almost as soon as the injured were
renoved to the hospitals, workers De
gan repairing the bridge cars are De
ing run over both Stanton and SANTA
Fe streets, but the bridge Will not De
open until the last OF the "eeA.
sengers transfer there
A,thori+leS of the uarez district court,
nnder whose jurisdiction all such ac-
cidents fall. have ordered the brldge
offieially closed No one will be al
lowed to pass However the river ped
is being used for pedestrians
81 do not know what VIII De oone
about the bridge, said 6. q. Morso' ac1
ing superfntendent OF the electric ra1l-
wav company when asked if new
bridge would be built AT present we
will raise the fallen bridge and make
# safe for traffic just as soon as posi-
BILE The contractors can give me no
definite date, but experts are looking
over the task We do not know the
cause OF the accident, but are reason
ably sure that the repairing Of the
bridge had nothing at all to do with
It"
Many Physicians Called.
Physicians attending the injured on
the scene of the accident were Drs- H
o. Wright, J. d. Love, II. S. Ramey, A
II. Butler and Edward D. Sinks. With
"a their assistants, both chief of police
Jenkins, of FL Pasos and Commandant
of police Ponce de Leon, of Juarez,
were al the bridge shortly after the &C
cident Judge Miranda Of the JuareZ
federal court. is N charge Of Inc IN
yestt0ation the accident occurring on
the tracks of he .Iuaraz and ri Faso
Traction compans the ,LareZ side %
the river.
The Injured.
Others injured were:
Alberto Ramiroz Midland, Tex,
workman. scalp cut on the left side
Pedro Gonzales, Juarez, right ankle
cut, knee bruised He is 4 hne'1an
for the railway company AMI Ives In
Juarez.
Bias de la LARA, .:5n,.:-i With inc
FL Paso del Norte Slr,' ' ..lrpany, FL
thrown gainst the seat in the fall.
o. c. Greene VINO icsides at SecarG
and Ell Paso, carpenter working in
Juarez, was standing on bark ~ he
car and sustat led a light hurt about
chest
Paublino Quinonoz. 81 Durango
street, shaken; no hurts.
Maria Basurto, Juarez, right Shout
der wrenched.
Flvira Williams, Iuarez, fell on seat;
badly shaken; no hurt
Juan Meroz 22eO Bassett avenue.
slight sprain of right ankle
A F. Silva, Juarez, shaken, no evil
dence OF injury, at hospital
CABRERA Lerma, Juarez, slight prluse
on back and left shoulder.
Lerna had 6yearold boy with him,
but the lad was not injured.
Thomas Rodrigues. who lives at 905
South Stanton street. and his wife, Brou-
Tia Rodriguez, were on the car The Wo-
man was injured about the chest and
was taken home By her husband, Tor
medical attention.
Examination at Providence hospital
disclosed that Conception Fuentes the
woman with the babe in arms, sustained
sprain of both knees and of the left
elbow.
Workmer Weaken Bridge.
An engineer, who saw the bridge
carelessness of the carpenters making
repairs He said they removed the nuts
from some bolts supporting the first
span Of the bridge and that the weight
of the car simply pulled the bridge
down.
workmen were engaged in repairing
the second span OF the structure, but
foreman r L. Reeves declared after
the accident that the men had not
touched the first span and they had
done but little work on the second
Carlos H. LAMA, a special deputy
of Jusrez, was a passenger on the i'll
fated car He was unhurt by the fall,
and assisted the injured from the
wreck. T. Ruiz and Isabel JuareZ, both
Of Juarez, were uninjured passengers
Cigar Saved Him.
Charlie Del Ara, proprietor of the
Porfirio Diaz hotel in Juarez. owes his
escape from injury In the accident, TO
q cigar He boarded the car in Juarez
bound for FL Paso to buy meat and
he was smoking a cigar when the con-
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