The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-13
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now being filled. The order consisted
of fifteen freighters, weighing $4,000
pounds each, and ten Pacific type pas
senger engines. weighing 100000
pounds each, and several of each type
have recently been received. All burn
oil for fuel. They will be scattered
over the system and it is said that a
few of them will come to the Kansas
1 division.
4 ]. F. Moore, one of the ten living
military telegraph operators of the
! Civil war, called at the Santa Fe gen.
eral offices, this week, and visited a
| short time with Fred c. Fox, general
manager for the company's eastern
| lines These two men once worked
together for the Santa Fe, but Moore
was telegraph operator before Fox
was born, and the latter has been in
| the railroad game for forty-two years.
Moore is one of the old timers who,
| while working from place to place
/ came in contact with a number of
| men who now hold important posi-
| tons with railroad companies. He
had the rowing spirit while some of
| the others, Fox for instance, stuck to
one place until they were better fitted
for another. and Fox now is general
manager. But he always has a little
time to give to his old friend when he
comes in for little chat.
came out this week with the an
nouncement that an agreement had
been made with the trustees of the
Kansas City Northwestern Railroad
company for the purchase of that
property by the Chicago Great West
ern, stating that the plan would give
the latter company a terminal of its
own at Kansas City. The magazine.
however, got it's geography mixed
when it stated that the Northwest
ern lis 160-mile line from Kansas
City, Kan, to Leavenworth, Kan"
The mileage is about right but the
road extends from Kansas City to Vir-
glnia, Neb. 1t has twenty-four miles
of sidings, sixteen locomotives and
fifty-nine cars. Its capital stock is
$1,400,00O.
France is preparing to order 500
locomotives OF the latest type and
$4,000 railroad cars from Germany.
This is said to be the first important
order placed in the enemy country
since the war.
Not only has the Santa Fe under
consideration a branch line from Sa-
tanta, kan., to Springfield, Colo,
winch, 1t is announced. will be built
Just as soon as conditions will permit
but 1t is reported that the company
VIII also make connection of its In
dependence-Tulsa line with the CAL
weston main line by building a new
line from owen to Fairfax, Okla.
From statistics compiled by the
American Red Cross, it is learned that
accidents killed more people in the
United States in one year than the
much dreaded scourge of cancer. The
toll of accidental deaths in 1918, the
last year for which figures are avail
able, was S3,S52. Automobile fatali-
ties have increased tenfold in the last
decade. Ninety out of each million
population were killed by automobiles
in 1918, as compared with ten in each
million annually from 1908 to 1910.
However, the safety movement has APP
paPently been successful for the rail-
road and trolley lines. since here the
death rate has apparently decreased.
s. H. Hendrix. a lineman employed
by the Rock Island, gave a practical
demonstration of the spirit that does
things under difficulties recently, when
the Red river bridge at Sayre, Okla,
was washed out and 1t was necessary
to cut in a telegraph office temporar-
lily on the opposite side of the stream.
The river was a torrent and with no
other means available, Hendrix crept
across on the telegraph wires, sus-
pended from poles on each side of the
river, and established communication.
G. H. Minchin, assistant superin-
tendent of the Illinois division of the
Santa Fe. with headquarters at Chill
licothe, Ill, has been appointed train
master on the Missouri division with
headquarters at Marceline. Mo.
Difficulties have been many for the
railways entering Pueblo, Colo, in re-
pairing damage done by the heavy
June floods. Tracks, shops, termi-
mails and equipment are being rapidly
put into good condition, however.
Many temporary bridges have been
built and the equipment totally ruined
is being salvaged.
That railroad business is improving
in Mexico is shown by an order which
the National Railways of Mexico re-
Gently placed with the American Lo-
connective company for twenty CONSOLE
dated type locomotives and seven en-
gines of the Mikado type.
A sentence of one to seven years in
the industrial school at Hutchinson
was imposed against w. w. Patterson
few days ago, for having attempted
to use annual Rock Island passes be-
longing to another person The passes
belonged to Fireman Edward Ku-
chera, Belleville, and his wife. and
were over the Kansas division.
HAD THRILLING EXPERIENCE
Santa Fe Watchman Narooned in
His Tower in Pueblo Flood.
Few persons can boast of a more
thrilling adventure than that expert
enced by N. f. Little, a Santa Fe
Waterman, at Pueblo, Colo, during the
recent flood at that place
Little was on duty in his tower the
night the flood struck. He made an
attempt to escape but found the cur
rent of the water too swift and was
compelled to turn back to his post.
The water continued to rise until 1t
reached a height of sixteen feet, al
most to the level OF the tower floor.
The tower was directly in the path of
the flood, but Little had no choice
other than to remain there, expecting
every minute that the frail structure
would collapse or be swept away by