| Show ON THE BUS cit CRISTI KILLING filling 22 IN NE MEXICO I 1 want the readers of the chronicle to read the following intently writ ten for them by mr diego abeita a full blood tewa indian living at Is leta new mexico a day or two after the great wreck which took twenty two lives know that the indian of the southwest called by us the pu eblo indian has men well educated and this young man Is the regular and duly accredited correspondent of the new mexico state tribune a paper nearly the size of the salt lake tribune his article tor for my use follows the only evel dence that would in dacate that an accident had occurred recently on the isleta grade crossing is the presence of an unusual number of sight seers the debris the remnant of the once luxurious and lavishly decorah ed pickwick greyhound bus now has the ape arance that it has lain there tor for years it lies about yards north of the little adobe village of 1200 indians itself claiming settlement around A D the crowd has incessantly tramp led about the ground since the die dis accident about ten 0 clock friday morning and only for the ef focient work of sheriff hubbell other accidents might have been possible in the congestion of traffic about tile spot about four 0 clock friday a brisk gale swept down the tracks and brot with a rather stiff torrent of nin which put out the smoldering tires fires that were still burning on the rubber tires and fence posts this all tends to put age and uniformity to the ap bearance pe arance of the surroundings of the ghastly ruins as well as to tend to disperse the crowd which however remained tunell dark today the sight looks as it if it haa hata been there for countless ages and only lends color to the untidiness of the village outskirts about yards from the crossing I 1 the mangled steel skeleton of the huge bus la is sprawled out to the left of the track twisted to a spider like i form the only mute evidence a as s to what was once a tragic moment diego abeita diego takes an interest in the civil affairs of his watches the en croach ments of the scheming and de signing whites whose unscrupulous po clans would pilfer what they wish of indian holdings the same as they would take from me or you it if they thought they could get by with it and with as little compunction diego writes forcefully in defense of indian rights and when necessary bares with a pitiless pen what he wishes to expose his handling of the wreck Is well written with a fluency marking skill with words read this little touch diego gives me of a sidelight on the west bank of the grade was a most heartrending sight fifteen feet from each other were the bodies of two babies the chubby hands of one still clutched an easter bunny toy he had been play tog mg with the body of the other little tot was badly mangled it touches one to read it two indian boys were carrying wa ter nearby when the crash came they ran with their pails palls and bathed the faces of the sufferers and quen ched the of the dying I 1 thank diego for his writing v B sr tuesday night the glia gleaner ner G girl arts s gave an entertainment tor for the misses leda and atton afton finlinson Fm linson at the sec see ond ward chapel candy was pulled and each person present was given favors consisting of a hand painted bottle of hand lotion mrs ward moody has her mother mrs snow pf of st george visiting her i chas owens came in from ruth nevada this week to resume farm ing operations on his farm at hinck ley for the season reports the sll ell ver and copper camps as being very quiet in this slump metals were hit hard mrs C E porter of chicago stop ped oft off in delta tor for a few days to visit with wath old time friends namely mrs gle gleason son and brothers sho she was aa on her way home from long beach calif where she spent the winter with a sister |
