Oct 30, 1905 Silverton Standard
Front page has photo of valley with Animas Forks.
Four monstrous steam boiler for the Old Hundred milling plant arrived this week. The boilers are the largest ever shipped into this county.
The two or three hundred train loads of coal that have gone from Durango to Silverton during the past two months will probably keep the camp warm during the balance of the winter- Durango Herald.
Neglected duties of the night watchman at the roundhouse of the Silverton Northern railroad here caused the burning of a boiler in one of the locomotives last Wednesday. The engine is a dead one, and will soon have to be taken to Alamosa for repairs.
The long trestle on the D&RG road,[just north of high line in W.H.Jackson photos] just this side of Rockwood was destroyed by fire last Wednesday night, having probably caught from sparks from the delayed incoming passenger train. It will take a couple of weeks to repair the damage. In the meantime, passenger, mail and express, will have to be transferred from one train to another at the place of the fire, while freight traffic will have to await repairs of the line. The Rockwood trestle should have been done away with and the place filled in with solid rock and dirt long ago.
A Telluride special, dated the 21st, says: Train No. 8, the passenger leaving Telluride at 9:05 for Montrose, was partially wrecked this morning about one and a half miles below Placerville, caused by a broken rail. The tender, baggage car and combination mail car and smoker were ditched. Baggage man Wm. Cuthbertson was cut and bruised about the body but not dangerously hurt while Engineer “Dad” Phillips escaped with a sprained ankle. The above were the only ones injured. A wrecking train was sent from Ridgway and the road cleared about five hours afterward.
Work commenced on the wood-work of the Denver & Rio Grande depot at this place [Farmington] this week. The building will be large and commodious and will be a credit to the town. It will take about a month to complete the building, after which the workmen will begin work on the Aztec station which will be a good building, being only ten feet smaller than the one here. Farmington Times.
Superintendent Ridgway, of the D&RG railway, arrived in Silverton last Sunday night, looking after the interests of freight traffic at this end of the line.
G. E. Murray, wife and child, of Gladstone, came down yesterday evening on their way to Pagosa Junction, where their son, Edward Ray Murray, was killed in a railway accident yesterday morning. Monday’s Durango Herald.
