The engine is nearly a total wreck and is…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

t 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. Engineer McGinnis, bleeding, stunned and blinded by blood and injuries, showed great presence of mind by running back nearly half a mile and flagging the east-bound passenger train which was only five minutes behind them. The wreck occurred just around a sharp curve and the passenger train would have crashed into it. All trains were delayed about six hours. Conductor Starr’s remains were taken to El Paso and taken charge of by the Brother- hood of; Railway Trainmen. Johnny Ott has been detailed by that order to take charge of and accompany the remains east. He was a single man and a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge No. 78 of San Marcial, also of order of Railway Conductors. Brakeman Mudge and Engineer McGinnis are at the hospital in El Paso. The former will be removed to San Marcial soon as his condition permits. He is known to most business men in Silver City as he acted as agent here during January of this year.