Railroad Accident
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

hen you leave home, you may be assured you can point out the frozen poet. Railroad Accident Tuesday about noon, a light engine on the Santa Fe, two miles east of El Paso, jumped the track and ran into the company’s pump-house, at that point, completely wrecking the latter. The engine was in charge of Conductor Starr, who with his two brakemen, was riding on the pilot. As the engine left the rails. Con- ductor Starr, it is supposed, jumped and was caught under the engine, killing him instantly and mangling his body horribly. Brakeman J. H. Mudge received several severe scalp wounds, his left hand split open, and right leg very badly cut. If he has received no internal in- juries he may survive. The other brakeman escaped with a general shaking and was insen- sible for nearly an hour. The engineer, Mc- Ginnis, received a bad flesh wound extending across the forehead, several small cuts on the scalp and is badly bruised around the chest. His fireman escaped without a scratch as,; did a six year old boy who was on the engine at the time. , The engine is nearly a total wreck and is lying on her side, twenty feet from the track. It is supposed she climbed; the ifrog, and the ( 72 ) guard rail not holding her, she left the rails.