Notice tacked to the Filber Building door, used as morgue.
carried by his station. Searchers found his railroad pass in the debris, and later W. H. Hoagland, O. J. Lemon, Dr. Samuel Kerr and Editor Andrew O. Rupp of the El Paso Journal identified his body in the depot building.
It was improbable that a railroad crossing within a few feet of the Campbell House should be free from accidents through the years. On February 2, 1889 an Illinois Central freight train knocked a T. P. & W. switch engine into the freight depot astonishing John Sheckler who was on duty at his desk. A more serious wreck occurred April 8, 1911, when the westbound 9:36 p. m. passenger engine cut through the twenty-eighth car of a long Illinois Central freight, upsetting on the south side of the Campbell House. Somehow Engineer W. J. Osterhaut and Fireman Lem Thompson crawled out of the wreckage of their cab without serious injuries. A mechanic who was riding with them saw the coming crash and jumped, but he landed against the switch control post a few yards east of the crossing and was rather badly hurt. None of the freight cars which piled up touched the Campbell House. These wrecks were minor compared to the Chatsworth wreck, then the second worst in U. S. history in point of fatalities, which kept the T. P. & W. railroad in financial difficulty for the next half century.
The Campbell apartment on the second floor of the hotel became crowded as the children came: Ava Buelah, Harry George, Hugh Stuart and Isis Gertrude made the Captain's family a well known one. In 1895 the building was expanded on the ground floor to make a larger baggage room and to add a barber shop and other space which cost $3,500. Depot and dining rooms were on the first floor, the living apartments and some hotel rooms were on the second, the third floor being all hotel space.
Except for a short period when Mr. Campbell leased the hotel to A. L. Hathaway, he continued its management until he died on Decem-
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