Image 4 of El Paso daily herald (El Paso, Tex.), January 31, 1899, (Third Edition 4:30 p.m.)
author: Anonymous
source date: 1899
availability: public_domain

EL PASO DAILY HERALD TUESDAY JANUARY 31 1899 4 THREE CHINESE DULLES BEST GOODS At Lowest Prlci FIT GUARANTEED THE UNION TAILORS AJRJBl 215 SanJAiitonio 03 i Link and Pin t ALL ON THE QUIET A Wreck Narrowly Averted On One of the Roads Leading Into This Point It is weldom if ever that a railroad man relates a circumstance with the tinge of seriousness which the follow ing statement bears but as the report er was not supposed to have heard it well tbat makes it different It is not necessary to state which direction this occurred out of El Paso but the statement overheard by the reporter is as follows My order read to meet a certain train Sunday at a certain siding I remembered my orders until within a mile of the meet ing point but there for some reason or other my mind became blank and I whistled for the siding instead of stop ping as I should have done and went by it at a lively clip As it so happened after rounding a sharp curve about a half mile from the meet ing point I entered into a stretch of straight track about a