| Show THE RIO GRANDE CRANDE MEN WILL REST New Order Calling of Me M Exhausted BLOCKADE OF THIRD sou SOuTh rJ Incident 1 It hut lIue One Jue ur of Mall Occur at Ilie Grade I IThe The Denver Denvel and 1110 Grande hOI has is II issued sued orders which will provo prove to Ie be a blessing to some or of the overworked rail rand The rhe orders have for their object the of t the he men an opportunity to get Ket needed rest after one oue trip before being CAlled to go out outon outon on another Of the tho accident near Ballila R a awell well known railroad nina has hili salt said Time The accident was WIlS due to a 11 strange ot of circumstances circumstance which ma may not occur for tor 1000 years ears Every has hns Its a and no two ars arB alike Nen en are often roth noth Log but machineS machine and when called upon to do dJ to which they have not been accustomed they m make e miser miserable abl able faIlures The brakeman or of the narrow gauge approaching Salida on the day or of the accident was not nol tamed to the tho responsibility of guarding against a rear end collIsion as h he had bud been on II a train ordinarily wu was safe saro from such an accIdent lie was In the habit or of dozing at C 6 In Inthe inthe the morning anti and It is 18 to b ho that hue be dozed III as usual The rear brakeman on the standard gauge train which was approaching Vaa tn in the habit or of being boing prepared and he would probably hOe have saved his train from on an accident under circum stanc stances s where hero the other man Inan tailed galled It ItIs Itis Is no fault or of Do a railway when an dent occurs under thOse circumstances It Is s ImpOssible for Do a railway to be pre prepared pared for or eVery possible contingency nC and so 80 long os mis railroads arc operated b by human agency accidents wilt will take place Another new order Ju just l placed Into service on the Rio 1110 Grande dev developed n a strange fact y yesterday Bays ay the D Den n nver ver var News of Sunday and some or of the think a 0 ho has taken up his residence down near Howard where the tho big wreck o occurred last week The new order compels rm loes to engine failures by to the gen Iral superintendent Since the great reat rush or of freight tf traffic m began the have been overworked as well na as the crews Almost every enry day n a locomotive has been reported dead deall somewhere on the road and thu tho causes varied from breakdowns to Incapacity to steam on or of poor coal But Dut yesterdays report hlll hail a very er unusual circum An engine started east from Salida without a train with orders to torun torun run to Canyon CIt City to help another cr crew through time the canyon While bowling along the engineer round found that on an mutation or of mud and slime In his boiler wa likely to hive give him trouble W so lie turned on the valve alve to get rid ot of the When be had turned out I a Ie few barrels ot of yellow ellow team and water hI he tried to close the valve and found that It had stuck atuck The engine died and stopped stepped almost on the very spot where the cinders or of the wreck were still smoking The tire fire fireman man and engineer started out In opo opposite site directions to flag approaching trains liS as as al roach a SiR ata tion and call for help An hour or two later a yard engine was sent Hent out from Salida and the d dead d engIne towed In inAnd And the II peculiar circumstance accord accordIng according Ing to ono one or of the la is that us n soon noon as the helpless machine was drawn from the hoodoo influence the tho valve was released d and no difficulty was round found In 1 closing It But Dut that was not the end o of the story tOl b by any means The boiler was wan hued with water In the Salida yards Md and a anew anew new fire started and Brier after steam humid bad been ral raised ed the tho engine Will given rhen clear clearance ancl ance anti o again started east It got Just Justna justas na as far as the fatal s spot ot again when tm 1 valve yoke oko blew oft off and the holler boiler was emptied or of water wilter anti steam and the engine was a 1 dead thead machine block blockIng log Ing the right ot of way This time the thing was WaI more serious for tor two of the regular trains train were tied and delayed while waiting for lor the lie corp corpse to bo be pulled out of the Itle way 1 Another new order relates to the han dung of cars containing explosIves by yardmen In the future switching cr crews ws will carefully place such cars carl where thy they belong and will not kick them along the tho tracks under penalty or of instant dismissal The or of orn ofa n a car CRr ot 01 dynamite In the Denver yards R a week ago Is for this order Superintendent Burns urns baa al atsa Q Issued another warning for nil all train crows to see that trains lire are well equipped with lanterns lantern flags torpedoes nod and The wreck near Salida inspired tho or order tier der The smashup at Cuchara Junction November 22 2 between two extra en engines HintS gines has hili been productive or of three b from the Itlo Orando Orande service Fred S Harris superintend emit has Issued n a bulletin Intended nil As nila Asa a species or of warning to 10 all train n crews who b have ve been n d to s Extra 64 backed 1 Into Extra The report that the s speed ed was exceR liVe that the tho creW poor mont ment In not nol making the run with the engine h haded north when there IL a WO at both poInt and the tho destination and that they ther showed or of care and thus Inattention and failure to realize the tho ff Sn In Inthe the tM the company The Tho con conductor ductor and engineer have hao been let out |
