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Newspaper
Sedalia Evening Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1902
Page
4
A long term life policy hinges on the insurer, and the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York presents the strongest confidence for future security through its established record.
Effective October 1 1902 I H Luke division superintendent of Missouri Pacific at Sedalia is appointed superintendent of Kansas and Colorado Pacific lines from Hoisington Kansas to Pueblo Colorado and Hoisington to Great Bend Kansas with headquarters at Pueblo replacing W J Melee Luke will move from Sedalia to Pueblo and is regarded as a merited promotion. Also Katy mail clerks seek larger cars as cars shift between trains Nos 1 2 and the flyers reducing work space for clerks on Sedalia to Denison route.
An extra cattle train on the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad was wrecked two miles east of Gainesville Texas. Fifteen cars of stock were killed outright and as many cars of cattle seriously injured when the train left the track on a short curve and fell 25 feet down an embankment.
Denison Texas Sept 24 There were two serious wrecks last night on the Henrietta division near Woodbine The engine and seven cars left the track 100 head of cattle were killed and Brakeman Conway was fatally injured.
The new superintendent Mr. McKee previously led the Pueblo division of Missouri Pacific and comes from Arkansas where he ran the Iron Mountain division.
Spiney Richmond arrives at Pittsburg in section la borer. John Coffee joins Greenville as a section laborer. Victor Landa starts with the extra gang and Louis Adams becomes a section laborer in Taylor.
Two new locomotives for Fort Scott and the Katy road were seen passing through this morning from factory to Parsons shops. The engines weigh 137 tons, carry 15 tons of coal and hold 6,000 gallons of water. The large machines drew crowds in the yards.
The following were elected to the grand executive board Asa Dillon Downs and J Kinsley Yoakum Tex M W Cadle chair man of the board of adjustment for the B of L FE left for St Louis on the noon train today on business A sts wreck occurred this morning at Myrick Mo in which a caboose and three cars left the track causing slight damage and blocking the Lexington branch for hours
The Young Peoples' society invites friends to an ice cream social Thursday evening at the church parlors. Cordial invitation extended to all attendees.
James Ames a Katy brakeman returns to work after eye injury. Katy engineers Bayless Mercer Tongate and dispatcher Freeman visit Boonville as witnesses in the Boonville bridge case. Missouri Pacific operator Harry Coe leaves after his father’s funeral. Roy Hinkle leads Sedalia Warsaw and Southwest excursion train with passengers. F W Brewster travels to Atchison to visit his ill sister Carrie. Katy switchman Harry Parrish takes days off. Missouri Pacific machinist Jesse Arnett resumes after foot injury. FE A Boughner visits from Parsons Kansas while Yardmaster W E Miller nurses a sore hand from a levee dispute with a negro claiming right of way near the yard house.
In Chattanooga Tennessee on September 24 the Brotherhood completed officer elections Charles Maier of Parsons Kansas was elected vice president F W Arnold was re elected as Grand Secretary and Treasurer and Editor Carter of the Firemans Memorial organization was also re elected J H Murphy of Denver was re elected general counsel and Dr W B Watts was elected to a position unspecified in the fragment
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