Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-08-29 | Page 10 | Railroad Men Leave Mexico

jW RAILROAD MEN LEAVE MEXICO. H Consider Life in Republic Unsafe Under Ml Existing Conditions. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Allan 88. Thai the officials .f the Mexican railroads oon."ldcr Mexico no place for a life-loving man to be during the present turbulent condition of that country was shown today when R Co-lada. Co-lada. president of the Cent rale d Mexico railway, passed through Ogden en route to Chicago. It was onlv a few weeks ago 'hat the president of th,. National Rail- waya of Mexico was abo In the city on I rus way east. I S. W. Sullnger. an American locomo- I trv engineer emploved bv the Mexican railroad out of Kl Ora for several years was in tlie city today and offered a possible pos-sible explanation of the rivsene of high Mexican railroad officials In America a1 this time. In the past month, when so many of the American railroad ruipioveeu have been leaving Mexico, there, have been fifty-six head-on ooilurions and twenty-six boiler explosions on the MexleHn roads. Tills is said to he due to the lack of care and general Incompetence of native na-tive employe-. In the opinion of Mr. Sullnger, Mexico Is doomed, so fnr as American investments invest-ments are concerned, unless there Is American Intervention. Railroad -ondi-tionn there, he sayu, are In a deplorable condition.