The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 36, September 22, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
I
FORT WORTH RAILWAY NOTES.
Fort Worth, September 20, 1894.
Editor of The Texas Miner :
Sleepy Joe of the Joint Track is once more on deck.
G. W. Martin, traveling freight agent of the SantaFe, returned
Tuesday from a trip west.
Colonel Robert E. Lee Cooke went over to Dallas Monday
night on a short business trip.
Mr. J. C. McCabe, general passenger and ticket agent of the
Rock Island, went north Monday morning.
W. S. Polhemus, superintendent of the joint track, accompa-
nied by his wife, spent the day Friday in Dallas.
J. B. Paul, superintendent of the Rio Grande division, head-
quarrers at Big Springs, spent Sunday in the city.
The Texas Trunk railroad will, on next Sunday, begins to oper-
ate a regular Sunday train, which will depart at 4 p. m.
A. A. Judges, superintendent of the Pullman Palace Sleeping
Car Company, spent several days in Dallas last week.
Colonel Robert E. Lee Cooke, of the union depot telegraph
office, spent Sunday in Denton visiting friends and relatives.
Gaston Meslier, general passenger agent of the Texas & Pacific,
With headquarters in Dallas was in the city one day last week.
S. R. Ely, commercial agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas,
headquarters in this city, made a flying trip south Friday morning.
G. H. Turner, assistant general freight agent of the Texas &
Pacific, headquarters at Dallas, was in the city Wednesday after-
noon.
L. Trice, division superintendent of the eastern division of the
Texas & Pacific, headquarters at Marshall, was in the city last
week.
B. F. Yoakum, general manager of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa
Fe, with headquarters at Galveston, was in the city Sunday and
Monday.
road master of the Texas & Pacific,
was again in the city a good portion of
general freight agent of the Missouri,
Denison, was in the city one
M. Murphy, division
headquarters at Dallas,
last week.
J. W. Allen, assistant
Kansas & Texas, headquarters at
day last week. •
J. A. Warner, traveling accountant of the Texas & Pacific,
with headquarters at Dalias, passed through the city last Wednes-
day en route west.
W. J. Hillis, train dispatcher of the Texas & Pacific at Big
Springs, was in the city a day or two the latter part of last week
on a pleasure trip.
S. N. Lloyd, general road master of the Joint Track, head-
quarters in this city, spent several days of last week in Whitesboro
looking after some work he was having done there.
J. H. Bond, traveling accountant of the auditing department
of the Texas & Pacific, with headquarters at Dallas, was in the
city Thursday en route to Aubrey on the Joint Track.
Thomas E. Gerrin, live stock claim agent of the Gulf. Colo-
rado & Santa Fe, with headquarters at Cleburne, was in the city
one day last week a few hours en route to Marietta, I. T.
The Santa Fe has made Dallas branch a link in the main line,
and solid vestibuled trains will be run over it between Galveston
and St. Louis, going nonh at 2 p. m. and south at 6:15 p. m.
George P. Herzinger special agent of the claim department of
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, with headquarters at Denison,
was in the city several days last week, and returned to Denison.
R. J. Benson, third trick dispatcher of the Joint Track office
is taking a few weeks rest. A Mr. Kelly, late of the Union
Pacific at Omaha, is holding down Benson's trick during his
absence.
T. W. Froments, foreman of the water service department of
the Rio Grande division of the Texas & Pacific, with headquarters
at Baird, was in the city last week doing some work on the Union
depot.
The Texas & Pacific pay car, in charge of Pay Master L. W.
Ewing, came over from Dallas on No. 9 Saturday evening and
paid off the employes of the '-Old Reliable" in Fort Worth, and
departed for New Orleans via Marshall early Sunday morning.
It will probably reach Fort Worth again on its return trip about
Saturday next and pay from here west.
J. A. Edson, general superintendent of the Cotton Belt, with
headquarters at Tyler, passed through the city Friday evening on
his special car No. n, en route to Denison via the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas.
Colonel P. C. Byrnes, general foreman of construction of the
telegraph department of the Texas & Pacific, with headquarters
at Fort Worth, was called to Millsap early Sunday morning.
(Before church.)
E. Loughery, superintendent of bridges and buildings of the
Eastern division of the Texas & Pacific, with headquarters at
Marshall, was in the city last week looking after some work he is
having done here.
C. J. Larimer, chief dispatcher of the Rio Grande division of
the Texas & Pacific in this city, was called to Vernon one day
last week to attend court as a witness for the Fort Worth &
Denver City Railroad company.
I. Lisk, traveling accountant of the auditing department of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas, with headquarters at Denison, was
in the city last Thursday en route to Aubrey, on the Joint Track,
to make a transfer of agents there.
H. F. Self, foreman of a bridge and building gang of the Eastern
division of the Texas & Pacific, with headquarters at Marshall,
has been in the city several days doing some work on the hew
waterworks plant of the companies.
E. W. Campbell, train master of the Texas & Pacific Eastern
division, with headquarters at Marshall, came in Saturday even-
ing expecting to spend Sunday in the city with his family, but
was called to Mineóla early Sunday morning by the collision
there.
The Texas & Pacific has adopted and are putting on its
engines a new style of cab, called the Iron-clad It is made
throughout of iron and steel, and is supposed to be of consider-
able advantage and protection in case of a wreck in which the
engine turns over.
Colonel W. F. Freeman has resigned as manager of the West-
ern Union branch office, corner Fifteenth and Main streets, to
accept a position as operator in the office of Captain Clements,
local freight agent of the Texas & Pacific and Missouri, Kansas
& Texas in this city.
J. W. Holwigler, for a number of years manager of the Texas
& Pacific telegraph office at Baird, at present in charge of an
office for the International & Great Northern at Galveston, passed
through the citv one day last week en route to Baird to spend a
few weeks with friends at that point.
It is rumored that the Rock Island will build an extension
from Chickasha, O. T., passing up the Washita, throungh county
G, and connect with its other lines at some point near Liberal.
Another line is also proposed to start from Cloud Chief, O. T..
and run southwest into Texas.
L. S. Thorne, general manager of the Texas & Pacific, with
headquarters in Dallas, came over Thursday morning in his
special car and went north from here over the Joint Track, and T.
C. divison, and W. S. Polhemus accompanied him as far north as
Whitesboro. Colonel O. Webb, his chief stenographer, accom-
panied him on the entire trip through to Texarkana.
The Texas & Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas & Texas had
quite a serious collision at Mineóla station about 8 o'clock Sat-
urday evening. It seems a Texas & Pacific freight train which
was switching in the yards let its caboose and two cars of cotton
get away from it and run back down the grade to the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas crossing, about one mile from town, and they
reached there just as the Missouri. Kansas & Texas passenger
pulled in from Greenville, they coming together with a crash-
There are two Texas & Pacific cars and a caboose and two flat
cars and the coal bin of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas lying in
the ditch, torn completely to pieces. The Missouri, Kansas &
Texas engine is a complete wreck, having been blown almost
apart. The list of the wounded and dead is as follows: Jack
Carter, head brakeman, found lying dead amongst a car of coal
in the coal bin; J. Polk, stockman from Abilene, wound in the
back and hips; Miss Mattie Weaver of Gainesville, a slight wound:
in the forehead. The engineer and fireman of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas were both slightly burned and scarred up, but
not seriously. A negro, name unknown, has a gash in the head.
A kid "bum" made a miraculous escape, jumping away from the:
side of the brakeman who was killed. Ajax.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 36, September 22, 1894, newspaper, September 22, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200483/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.